Nehawka Primitive Skills

This is the latest tomahawk.  Made of knapped Texas flint, hafted into a hardwood handle.  Deer hide is sewn over the handle and blade las...

One of my projects this past fall was playing with English flint.  My previous experience knapping this material was unimpressive.  But, t...

I love making friction fires...rubbing two sticks together.  There is something fascinating about spinning a shaft of wood against anothe...

It's been over a year since I've posted...sorry.  Life happens.  I figure it's time. I went out to the lakes to clear my tho...

Spring finds me doing some knapping and making knives, processing sinew, and continuing to experiment with the marcasite and flint firemaki...

Perhaps not the best picture. I've been intrigued with this style of stone knife since I saw examples of it on display at a stone age f...

Decades ago, I remember looking at an old library book, that had a line drawing of a round nodule with a groove in it. It said it was one o...