Clear Fork Adze That I Hafted

[flintdigger]

I was wondering if it would be ok to post photo's of the original Clear Fork Adze blade that I found about ten years ago. I have been thinking about hafting it for several years but wanted to do it right we trimmed the big oak tree in the yard last year so I saved a few pieces for projects. I cut and trimmed and scraped the wood with a large flint flake and did what cutting I need to do with a combination scraper on one side and rough serrated saw type blade on the other side that I knapped out. Then I scraped the wood smooth with a smaller flake and then used a piece of sand stone to smooth the wood I then put the blade in the handle and wrapped it with deer rawhide using no modern tools at all and no glue's of any kind so not to damage the artifact, so I can take it out without any damage to the blade. Anyway, if it ok I'll post a photo if you guy's and gal's would like to se it. The blade is original, not a modern knapped piece.

 

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[joshuaream]

You'll probably offend someone, but I'd like to see the project.

Joshua

 

[naturegirl]

I'd like to see it too.

 

[flintdigger]

Here it is. If any one feels it should not be posted here and should be removed it will not hurt my feelings.

 

[joshuaream]

Nice job. I've seen them used in Indonesia (Papua New Guinea), and they looked very similar. The shaft was longer and made from thin green wood (a fresh sapling), but the angle and hafting technique was very similar.


Good project!

 

[musky44]

pretty neat. goodlooking tool

 

[flintdigger]

Thanks I did some searching on the net to get the design, I put it together to go in the case just to show what one looked like.

 

[naturegirl]

Thanks for the looksee. that looks like it could do some cutting(?). was anything similar used in North America? Applying the laws of science and whatnot, that could do some stripping and cutting. Increases power of the human hand? Doubles the energy of the motion?

 

[flintdigger]

From what I have been able to find out about the tool, they were used a good bit in the states east of the mississippi for hollowing out logs for canoes. We find a lot of them around here in North Central Texas they are not that many rivers around here and not that many creek's for that matter. So I would imagine they were used for a good many task's also .

 

[larson1951]

hey thanks digger
i had not thunk of a tool hafted in a manner such as that way
now it makes me wonder as the many ways that a piece such as the likes of that could have been used
larson1951