An Edge from Stone: Making a Stone Adze 

love it! finally some different styles of tools!

It’s amazing how effective that really is! Id love to see a comparison to a knapped guilford axe.

Great job as always!

Outstanding!

Nice!!!

very similar to the square axes from neolithic europe , nice work !

Very cool!! I’ve wanted to try my hand at ground stone tools. I haven’t knapped in well over a year after I lost my touch. Might be time to get back into it. The only complaint I have about your videos is that I wish you could make more.

Beautiful adze. The stone blade you made is just like the ones I used to find along the Scioto River in Ohio. Thank for showing start to finish!

Thank you for explaining and showing the techniques. I always enjoy your videos.

Great video. Little tip from experience here, but if you go to your local creek and get sand to use as a grit while grinding it makes the whole process go twice as fast even if your grinding on sandstone. I found that out and will always do it that way from now on. When ready to polish you can just wash the sand off your sanding block or get a smooth stone and polish the edge without sand which i have found to work the best.👍🏻

Excellent video and great information

I am guessing that there were some kind of rotary systems that turned large flat stones, and I believe these stones were made with a slightly more sophisticated technology... but I can't prove it. I could only assume that someone clever enough to Knap stones, would also realize the basic physics of a makeshift flywheel. There have been large stone wheels found at some sites and some claim that they were animal driven grain grinding stones. I would just like to think that there is a more timely method! Great show man!

can you do a couple videos/series on eastern woodlands style toolkits?

Very nicely done. How many hours do you think it took to grind the adze?