Glad you mentioned there are different recipes. I used bees wax instead of the poo. I made some to secure sinue and goose feathers to stone axe shaft I made. Great video !!!
You’re a cool human Donny! I love how simple you Explain things. Some people are educated, but can’t educate people properly ha. It’s always nice when I get notified you put a video out! 👊🏻💪🏻🤙🏻
@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks Hello, I'm from Russia, I really like your video cuts, it acts as an excellent sedative from all sorts of stresses and experiences, I really like your tools that you make with your own hands and of course the process of your work brings special pleasure, Thank you very much !!!
@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks Thank you for this video!! A while ago I harvested a lot of resin from a big piece of cut lumber. I got really lucky and got a 6ft section of 2by12 from a jobsite because it had a complete vein of resin running through the middle of it from end to end that was ⅛"-½" thick making it unusable. Now I finally have a good recipie for some glue, I'm making a hatchet handle out of some maple, and I'm planning to use the resin to hot-seal the handle, and the glue to fill any gaps in the head when I go to wedge it. You might've answered it in another video, but if you do see this, where do you find all that obsidian for knapping?😳
So glad I finally found this. I’ve been really interested in trying to make pine pitch glue because I’ve heard it’s really durable, but I’ve wanted to avoid using animal droppings if I could just for convenience and sanitary purposes. Thanks Donny, I’m learning tons from your videos!
I don’t know how to thank properly for all the indo you share in your channel. Put that aside, only one sentence need a appreciation: (to imply not to damage the nature when gathering the resin) Just take what you need. Wish every man knew and behaved like that.
Fixed a leaking canoe with a pine resin mixture once ,,, up in the Boundry waters canoe area ,, it was an outfitter rental kevlar canoe,, older beat up, thin in spots from wear,, got pulled onto shore with a load in it and it folded in the middle, creating cracks on each side,, duct tape wouldnt stick to it, so ,, pine glue ,inside and out all over the cracks,put it in the water without a load ,,, and NO LEAKS ! still had to reinforce the floor in the middle with long sticks ,, put the backpacks over the sticks , and more sticks over the backpacks, and jamed under the outer ,upper frame rail, pushing down the packs in order to keep the hull from flexing .. made it 17 miles to get out,, without getting wet ! This stuff works! Cool video,,
Just finished your shorts and now I'm here, can't wait to explore what else this channel has to offer! Shorts really are like ads for your channel short and to the point and you made it work perfectly! now I'm here because I'm actually interested in what else I can learn and see!
Your one of my favorite people on RU-vid. Thank you for all you teach. I once met an amazingly talented flint knapper. He said he knew you. His name was Dana. Older fellow, Eagle Scout.
The only thing I know: pine glue in former days smelled much better than some glues nowadays... 😆 No, I'm not a glue sniffer... ☝️ It is interessting to see how our ancestors 3-, 4-, 5000 years ago made their stuff like ordinary glue. And I'm impressed when I think about it, that they had no books or television who telled them how to do it. They had to find it out for herself! Sometimes I think people in former days where smarter than us, but they had not the knowledge we have today...
I made some recently with a double boiler. One small bowl floating in a larger bowl of hot water. No burning to worry about. You do have to make a dipper to get the small bowl out but no big deal there.
When i was about 19 or 20, i was gathering birch bark and pitch for a north american wigwam, or wiki-up depending on wich name and tribe you go with. Alot was trial and error, some was luck, but i did have a fairly large structure in 6-7 months. Used mostly blown down salvage birches from storms because i knew i'd mess up alot along the way. Started with bailing twine for sewing seems together, but quickly opted for spruce roots, pine roots, and fur roots. They are absolutely incredible actually- maybe its the pitch content in them. I started with an 8 foot diameter circle, but dropped it to about 6 or 5 when winter came. Modified it on the fly sort of speak. I had gathered spruce pitch from red norway sruce here in maine. There was a very old stand of about 2 acres. These things- come spring, would seep baseball sized portions of pitch from crotches, broken limbs, and sometimes around perfectly healthy limbs like the tree was just breaming full of it. It was rather amazing. Our black spruce produce much less in comparison but of what seems a higher quality. Higher melting point, harder, than the norway spruce. They both seem to mix very well together. Apon sewing and waterproofing the seems, i would take white ash and poor it all over the pitched seems. Bugs did not like it, and it added some resistance to the sun to keep it from further melting. After each time it rained i would dust it with ash just to keep up on it and give it some more thermal defense in summer. I learned alot working and crafting that shelter. This was before i ever had internet access in and of my home. I hope to build another on soon now that i have my own house and property close to my original project. I have a profound and deep intrest and fascination with our local indians of maine all starting from the fourth grade. I hope to apply all that i learned, and new things that i have learned to future projects. I hope to one day build a nice birch bark canoe using strict traditional methods and materials. Love your video's man! Any thoughts or observations on pitch and its various forms and properties and craft i'd love to hear. I am fascinated with it deeply
I remember the first time I learned of pine pitch glue, I was so eager I ended up butchering a part of a pine tree in my backyard. I regret that. Eventually it started giving me pitch and for that I am grateful.
First off, excellent video as always! Secondly, as I was watching you crush the ingredients, I was wondering if you could make a mortar and pestle. Thanks for the great vid, and if you make a "Can you make...?" for a mortar and pestle, thanks for that too! 👍👍
Just made some for my first time tried to remember this video the best i could this past weekend camping up in woods canyon lake in AZ ended up being a bit brittle ended up burning the sap but still did what its supposed to ended up making a all wood digging pickaxe just for looks love your videos man would love to pick your brain in person lol
rolling a flat river rock over it makes grinding the charcoal way easier. And if you are home then you can make it dust thin in a rolling can with some rocks or with steel bearings inside.
New here and I wanted to start making this stuff for fine woodworking. I know it takes longer than store bought but I live in the mountains and like a more natural approach to things. Great video man!
Thanks for sharing Donny. You are a treasure trove of knowledge and a good teacher. Keep spreading your knowledge so that it can continue and not be lost
You crack me up. The entrance makes me laugh. But this I needed to know I love pine resin in the morning. It's a great natural pick up and pain killer. Helps me get going.
Very Informative Video. Great Work!! I Really Like These Longer Videos. Keep Up The Good Work And Stay Living Close To Our eartH Mother. Much Love From The Sticks Of Kentucky, Brother. 💙💗💙🌲🌳🌲🌾🍁🍂🍁🌾🍀🍀🍀
7:45, when the pitch ball is a bit too hot to handle comfortably, tend to dip the ball into the char-pile to thicken & cool the melted pitch a bit faster... which Donny probably does when not explaining things to a camera. Seriously neat content. Chel nok.
I can do most of what you can do that I have seen but this video is very valuable because I did not know how to make pitch glue I subscribed as soon as I watched your 1st video that I saw you're brilliant
Another great video as always.👍 Thanks for the pointer's hack and tip's, much appreciated. Is there any difference in bone dust and organic moose poo in terms of durability?
Pretty funny. Saw one of your other videos where you used some kind of glue in setting the blade for a copper axe. Immediately started searching for how to make the glue… didn’t have to search very long.
Have you try joining the TV Series NAKED AND AFRAID? I think you could be a good fit on that... you have to give that a try because you really have an awesome survival skills.
So thats what I did wrong .when I do it its brittle .ok thanks don I mean it still works but its tough to work with that stiff you made seems a lot easier
