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Alrighty since PVC was mostly a bust (not done working on it) I wanted to get back to copper to work through some scraps I still have and I still had that handle that I wanted to use for an adze, so I set out making a more useful blade than the PVC one (that was really garbage).
This one is a bit different from the usual as I had an Anvil this time! Not a copper slab but a proper anvil that was a christmas gift from family and I was short on time so I used a hammer. Now is it 100% on canon? Debatable but it did significantly speed up the work having an anvil and hammer instead of a rock. It could be argued that there is some heavily rusted girder that might be converted into a copperworking anvil by some village of drekir but... Instead of making that argument I will simply say that I wanted to try out the gift that was given to me and this was a great oppurtunity to do so. Anvil works great! It also reduced the amount of time it took to hammer down the copper by about half which is also great.
So first the piece of metal is from a scrapyard in the area I live, It was apparently part of a copper roofing set up and was a snapped piece of beam from a roof that was scrapped, it's about 6 inches long and was perfectly straight and the right size for the task so I got to it. First I flattened the broken end and tried my best to hammer out a straight blade, it's not perfect but I don't need a perfect edge to cut well. Next up a curve was hammered into it, the bend will help the angle of it's cutting and help keep it from unseating from the handle. Then lasly there were several notches hammered into the side to give the cordage something to grab onto. Then the edge was sharpened over 20 minutes on sandstone and the edge was polished with some granite.
The handle is the same handle from the PVC adze, its a good stick and I wanted to use it for something. This setup uses no pitch or glue as sharpening this blade properly requires it to be removed from the handle. But friction can be a good enough means of securing something to a handle and has been done for a long time. The blade was wrapped with some rawhide and then wrapped tightly with more rawhide strip. The friction of the rawhide on rawhide wrapped around the wood creates a pretty solid attachment of the blade to the haft.
It has so far succeeded in chopping up a hardwood oak plank so coming up next is some live trees. Though I expected it to work considering the copper axe and knife have worked well.
In the dragonscape Adzes are common tools, in many regions more common than axes. They are used usually for wood working and treefelling but can and are also used as farming and digging implements or sometimes weapons. An adze is basically an axe, with the blade hafted perpendicular to the handle as opposed to parallel alignment like with an axe.
Adzes are best served as woodworking tools that strip bark or "scoop" out wood. They can also be used for felling trees and general wood shaping with some practice and understanding of the tool.
Drekir work a lot better with adzes than with axes, as a dreks strongest swing is downward as opposed to horizontal, making an adze a bit easier to swing for tree felling than an axe. The downward swing also allows a drek to straddle a log and slowly work at it and still eye their work which makes it a great alternative to half hazardly swinging an axe at an angle that is hard for them to eye effectively.
So Adzes pop up a lot in the DragonScape and have many different varieties in different societies. You do see other materials too such as lithics, bone, antler horn as well as other copper alloy metals like Brass and (very rarely) bronze. In the late awakening period (120-150PA or so) you start to see the widespread adoption of Stabilized Stal spread around too.
Anywho yeah, was fun to make and it will look nice with my slowly growing set of copper tools and bits. I will get back to PVC here soon I still have some ideas with it.
This one is a bit different from the usual as I had an Anvil this time! Not a copper slab but a proper anvil that was a christmas gift from family and I was short on time so I used a hammer. Now is it 100% on canon? Debatable but it did significantly speed up the work having an anvil and hammer instead of a rock. It could be argued that there is some heavily rusted girder that might be converted into a copperworking anvil by some village of drekir but... Instead of making that argument I will simply say that I wanted to try out the gift that was given to me and this was a great oppurtunity to do so. Anvil works great! It also reduced the amount of time it took to hammer down the copper by about half which is also great.
So first the piece of metal is from a scrapyard in the area I live, It was apparently part of a copper roofing set up and was a snapped piece of beam from a roof that was scrapped, it's about 6 inches long and was perfectly straight and the right size for the task so I got to it. First I flattened the broken end and tried my best to hammer out a straight blade, it's not perfect but I don't need a perfect edge to cut well. Next up a curve was hammered into it, the bend will help the angle of it's cutting and help keep it from unseating from the handle. Then lasly there were several notches hammered into the side to give the cordage something to grab onto. Then the edge was sharpened over 20 minutes on sandstone and the edge was polished with some granite.
The handle is the same handle from the PVC adze, its a good stick and I wanted to use it for something. This setup uses no pitch or glue as sharpening this blade properly requires it to be removed from the handle. But friction can be a good enough means of securing something to a handle and has been done for a long time. The blade was wrapped with some rawhide and then wrapped tightly with more rawhide strip. The friction of the rawhide on rawhide wrapped around the wood creates a pretty solid attachment of the blade to the haft.
It has so far succeeded in chopping up a hardwood oak plank so coming up next is some live trees. Though I expected it to work considering the copper axe and knife have worked well.
In the dragonscape Adzes are common tools, in many regions more common than axes. They are used usually for wood working and treefelling but can and are also used as farming and digging implements or sometimes weapons. An adze is basically an axe, with the blade hafted perpendicular to the handle as opposed to parallel alignment like with an axe.
Adzes are best served as woodworking tools that strip bark or "scoop" out wood. They can also be used for felling trees and general wood shaping with some practice and understanding of the tool.
Drekir work a lot better with adzes than with axes, as a dreks strongest swing is downward as opposed to horizontal, making an adze a bit easier to swing for tree felling than an axe. The downward swing also allows a drek to straddle a log and slowly work at it and still eye their work which makes it a great alternative to half hazardly swinging an axe at an angle that is hard for them to eye effectively.
So Adzes pop up a lot in the DragonScape and have many different varieties in different societies. You do see other materials too such as lithics, bone, antler horn as well as other copper alloy metals like Brass and (very rarely) bronze. In the late awakening period (120-150PA or so) you start to see the widespread adoption of Stabilized Stal spread around too.
Anywho yeah, was fun to make and it will look nice with my slowly growing set of copper tools and bits. I will get back to PVC here soon I still have some ideas with it.
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If you need materials for making tools, look no further than the pet food section of your local Walmart, and pick up a bulk bag of rawhide treats!
I picked up a bag of 30 treats for around $18, and they're basically rolled 8x12 sheets of dry rawhide. My plan is to simply cut them with a hacksaw, and cut off inch-wide rolls. That way, I have ready strips on hand to use in tool repair around the home and garden.
To use them, simply soak them overnight. Then stretch them out, pulling carefully, until they go from 8 inches to around 12 or even 16. Then use them as lashing on the object in question. Be sure to leave at least a full inch of wet rawhide sticking out of the final tuck.
As it dries, it will shrink and get tighter, securing your tool and making it solid as a rock.
Here are some examples of repairs made to muskets using rawhide.
I picked up a bag of 30 treats for around $18, and they're basically rolled 8x12 sheets of dry rawhide. My plan is to simply cut them with a hacksaw, and cut off inch-wide rolls. That way, I have ready strips on hand to use in tool repair around the home and garden.
To use them, simply soak them overnight. Then stretch them out, pulling carefully, until they go from 8 inches to around 12 or even 16. Then use them as lashing on the object in question. Be sure to leave at least a full inch of wet rawhide sticking out of the final tuck.
As it dries, it will shrink and get tighter, securing your tool and making it solid as a rock.
Here are some examples of repairs made to muskets using rawhide.
That does sound a lot cheaper than going to a textile store to buy it by the sheet or spool for sure.
Most rawhides do that, Sinew also does that (and is particularly great at that) but I try not to rely on it, as of course once it sets its not really realistic to try and recover it. Sinew or anything like it is something I would use if I new for sure I was never removing that thing from it's perch, its like superglue. You have to cut it out if you want it back and for something that I'll be removing a lot for resharpening that felt like a bad idea, I can undo that knot when I want to and slowly unwind the cord.
In any case Rawhide is quite the material, as is the dragonscape equivalent scalehide (basically the same, after the scales are removed). I'll have to try that sometime though for sure!
Most rawhides do that, Sinew also does that (and is particularly great at that) but I try not to rely on it, as of course once it sets its not really realistic to try and recover it. Sinew or anything like it is something I would use if I new for sure I was never removing that thing from it's perch, its like superglue. You have to cut it out if you want it back and for something that I'll be removing a lot for resharpening that felt like a bad idea, I can undo that knot when I want to and slowly unwind the cord.
In any case Rawhide is quite the material, as is the dragonscape equivalent scalehide (basically the same, after the scales are removed). I'll have to try that sometime though for sure!
Oh, hey, I thought you might like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNq_pqUEcb8
The Mystery Of The 9,000 Year Old Hunting Tools Frozen In The Yukon | Secrets From The Ice | Odyssey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNq_pqUEcb8
The Mystery Of The 9,000 Year Old Hunting Tools Frozen In The Yukon | Secrets From The Ice | Odyssey
Oh yeah I've read a about these!
Global warming has been causing a lot of previously well frozen and hidden or inaccessible archaeological finds to become exposed to the elements and in the past few years there has been tons of effort in circumpolar regions of the world to try and find, uncover, and save/preserve these sorts of finds in the brief window in which they can be recovered.
Of course the catch is these things degrade quickly once exposed, so while archaeologists are finding tons of artifacts, zooarchaeological and paleontological finds many more are being lost as they remain unfound and quickly decompose or corrode beyond recovery. I have a whole set of papers and articles and whatnot about this very recent situation.
I'll give this a watch and probably add it to my list of notes so thanks!
Global warming has been causing a lot of previously well frozen and hidden or inaccessible archaeological finds to become exposed to the elements and in the past few years there has been tons of effort in circumpolar regions of the world to try and find, uncover, and save/preserve these sorts of finds in the brief window in which they can be recovered.
Of course the catch is these things degrade quickly once exposed, so while archaeologists are finding tons of artifacts, zooarchaeological and paleontological finds many more are being lost as they remain unfound and quickly decompose or corrode beyond recovery. I have a whole set of papers and articles and whatnot about this very recent situation.
I'll give this a watch and probably add it to my list of notes so thanks!
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