Stone Tools in Action - Shots of Making A Stone Axe Handle 

There are growing pains getting into it but it is some of the best times.

@@ROOTSSchoolVT I wish I could live in a Stone Age village sometimes

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We agree!

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Iron and steel have been pretty fun too ;)

The processing of metals began the spiral down to a severely polluted world. Yes the tools are great but remember, Man used stone for millions of years and they thrived quite well. There is a lot to say about the Stone Tools man used. I frankly would like to see the return of said tools.

@@onegreenev yes

Pete McWade that’s very impractical

@@onegreenev Wouldn't say thrive though. Stone age had no real progress for man.

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Fog Bank yeah me to

kosmiczny kot too*

It puts a better perspective because it’s shows us that we don’t need all this new technology and we can do stuff our self

Honestly those are two of my favorite tools I have ever made...both work great and have and awesome feel to them.

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How did it turn out?

+204dave204 Greenstone from VA. Its a metabasalt. Awesome stuff. Basalt in general works really well, you can use some grades of quartzite, some grades of granite, some jades and serpentine complexes, and even some uncooked chert.

where can you find green stone in va

I do.

Greenstone

This is mostly greestone, which is a metabasalt that beds all along the appalachian mountain chain. basalt works well, some quartzite can be used but is rugged to grind. Some of the tougher granite was used but is not my favorite.

+Neos Neos The ground tools are mostly greenstone from VA. The flint is English flint.

ROOTS School I guess it's greenstone then. Pretty unsuspecting name, I never would have found. We have tons of it here in Pennsylvania, but like I said, rarely is it ever large enough to work into any kind of tool.

+Neos Neos Its hard to know. Feel free to post a picture to Roots Schools facecrack page or send me a link to one. Also, this greenstone is polished from the grinding process and use. You can find river cobbles this smooth. But when freshly broken it is a lighter color of green and has much more grit. It is a metabasalt.

You want something hard and fine grained like basalt, greenstone, even granite in a pinch...

Roots School thanks!

Roots School did you buy these rocks or find them yourself? I live in New Brunswick, Canada. Idk if there's any rocks good enough here

@William White yes im using granite right now

@William White I use granite too, keep in mind there are different types of granite, it's not all like your kitchen counter tops. In the South we have a soft granite, some call green stone (common names are often not "correct", and yet they are.... figure that one out). Best to go out to a river, etc, somewhere you can find a variety. Use a very sold quartz pecking stone, and peck away. See what stone "gives" or is able to peck away (create tiny dimples). To speed up the process buy a "ceramic tile file" from Amazon or Home Depot. You will file the tops of those dimples off, and peck again. Cross hatch file marks can be filed down as well. I have made everything from pipes, axes, to bowls from green granite. Even quartz itself can be "carved", I've seen it. What you do want to watch out for is flaws in your material, such as cracks. They will sneak up on you. Often the surface of the rock will be hide some flaws, in some cases the surface will be harder than the rest of the rock, naturally I look for a rock that is in close form already to an axe, let's say..... "preform". I started making these with just quartz, but the tile files will make it a breeze, the difficult part will be identifying flaws in a pre form before you spend 4 hours pecking away. I can finish a full grooved axe in one weekend.

+Nillaferilla Gillicudy, at FMA

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Thank you for the link. Interesting. Handles look authentic from old items found to copy from. Now how to do that without modern drills and files. Totally Stone Age is what I'd like to do on a smaller scale. Sinew is another one of those things that needs to be used. A whole other video for that process I'm sure.

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+Victor Aguilera The stone are greenstone from Virginia USA

Been too long, have to look it up, should have listed it.... :(

Yes you can, state geology maps are a good place to start.

Roots School how hard is green stone compared to flint

I live in Maryland

Greenstone from VA and basalt from Maine

I looked and I cant tell from what is there. Good luck! Local geologists may be more helpful.

@@ROOTSSchoolVT thanks

Yes but it would be brittle.

+Mr.Nobody Greenstone

thx man

So for axe, knife and chisel, you need the same stones?

Yes, although I like to knapp my knives out of flint as opposed to grind them from greenstone.

Up to 500 years ago too!

I have, email me at info@rootsvt.com if interested

Thats what it takes!

Truly a mixed bag there!

As for the efficacy of stone tools...They build every home humans lived in for tens of thousands of years without being machine sharpened. Entire cultures and empires existed with this tech... it allowed for transpacific exploration and the settling of the pacific islands. It helped to build the incan, mayan, aztec, kahokia, and countless other empires.... Seems like they work for practical use to me...

@@ROOTSSchoolVT It helps if it's sharpened more to meet today's standards. I'm just saying.

The bit chips if you create a bevel much below 50 to 60 degrees...

@@ROOTSSchoolVT I see. Thanks.

I don't believe in purism. Everyone get to chose their own mission so long as their not out there lying about it! I've built things with all modern and all stone age tools and you learn different lessons. I often tell folks to make sure to try both, learn the fundamentals of how the skill works with the speed of modern tools and then do it with from the landscape or all stone age when you wan to push it.