Primitive Technology by David Wescott

Author:David Wescott [Wescott, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0879059117
Publisher: Gibbs-Smith - A
Published: 2001-03-26T00:00:00+00:00

Stage 2 - Creating The Blank - burning, breaking, throwing, bashing, splitting, pounding or otherwise collecting or preparing the material for shaping. The blank may be used whole (as is), rough shaped to a general form, or split for further reduction. All woods require some level of cutting or chopping to remove the desired piece of material from its source. Burning may be used, but has more limits. Ripping and breaking shoots and branches will work for smaller pieces of material. Dry wood can be thrown or levered in the crotch of a tree to section it up. Longer pieces that need to be shortened in a controlled way can either be burned, chopped or sawed (cutting across the grain). Billets (sections of wood) can be worked from this point, split lengthwise to reduce the mass and/or access inner materials, or seasoned to be worked later. (Note - working wood with stone tools is best done green. Since seasoned woods are much harder, it is likely that very little seasoning was done in the form of large billets, but rather were shaped preforms that could be dried quickly and finished after they dried slightly)

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