5-Session Bone tool Making ONLINE Class
5-Session Bone tool Making ONLINE Class
Because my dog passed away, I am adding a sixth session so more folks can sign up. We did one session, but it was short. If you register, I will give you the link to the Google Drive!
If you ever find yourself lost in the woods and forget the knife you usually carry, you should learn as many ways of creating a sharp edge using natural materials as possible. The art of flint knapping is breaking certain types of rocks that only exist in various pockets around the country into stone knives and arrowheads. You can take some rocks, smash them on the ground, and get an edge to carve a Bowdrill notch, but you'll want something a little more precise eventually. Bone tools can be shaped into anything from the fishhook to spearpoint. That material is animal bone.
Class Dates: all classes begin at 4 PM Pacific and end at 6 PM
4/6/24 Part 1
5/11/24 Part 2
6/8/24 Part 3
6/29/24 Part 4
7/20/24 Part 5
8/5/24 part 6
Throughout this class experience, I will teach you:
How to find animal bones
Processing them in a way to maximizes the amount of tools you can get from a single piece of bone.
Show you how to process and utilize the sinews, which can be used for anything from sewing to making a bowstring, and in the context of this class, how to attach a bone arrowhead to the arrow itself.
I will also teach you how to process evergreen tree sap into what is known as "pitch glue." It makes for fantastic waterproofing
a few tools you will learn to make are spears/arrowheads, needles, and knives, to name a few! Oh, and jewelry as well!
We will create a group chat in WhatsApp or something like that, so they can always contact each other for questions and show off the cool things you're making!
The class will consist of a two-hour Zoom session every other week for two months unless there is a holiday. or I am on the road teaching another class. In total, you will get to participate in. (5 1- 2-hour sessions). Our sessions will be recorded, and you will be given a copy for later reference.
During the "in-between" times, I randomly upload videos to a shared Google Drive for our class, teaching you a new tool or technique.
At the start of every online session, we will do a show-and-tell
Students will have to spend a little bit of extra money, going out into the wilds of the pet store and hardware store to get bones and some simple files, which I will show you examples of before class.
Even though we will be using modern tools, we will all learn the original way of making bone tools: finding a stone with a rough surface and filing the piece of bone into a tool. By using modern tools, I will be able to teach you many more things. finding a stone with a rough surface and filing the piece of bone into a tool. By using modern tools, I will be able to teach you many more things. we will all learn the original way of making down tools: finding a stone with a rough surface and filing the piece of bone into a tool. By using modern tools, I will be able to teach you many more things.
You will have permanent access to all recordings and documents. I uploaded it throughout the class.
