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Bilboquets
The bilboquets or pin-and-cup games I showed boiling on Monday are dried and ready to ship now. I discussed it with the client and given the way these toys are intended to be used, we decided to go...
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Start of the long weekend
If I had made it out to the workshop today, I would have finished these Groswater harpoon heads. But I didn't make it to the workshop today. I got distracted by office work, photo editing, and the...
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Ptarmigan Feathers
I need a few ptarmigan feathers for a set of atlatl darts. A friend from Labrador managed to find a half dozen wings in his freezer and popped them in the mail for me last week.Photo Credit: Tim Rast
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Groswater harpoon progress
Un-notched Groswater EndbladeI have a few goals in the workshop this week and several orders that I'm trying to fill all at once, but my main focus is to get a Groswater harpoon and assorted Northern...
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Northern Plains Projectile Points
Record in Stone andreproductionsHere is the finished set of Northern Plains projectile points. This sequence of reproductions spans about 10,000 years of prehistory. I've attempted some of these...
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Groswater Palaeoeskimo Harpoon with Spare Parts
Groswater Palaeoeskimo Harpoon HeadsThis is a fun little set that I just sent off to Mount Royal University in Calgary along with the Northern Plains projectile points that I showed on Friday. This a...
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Splitting Birch and Knapping Glass
Splitting the birchI continued working on the ice patch inspired Northern Archaic darts today by splitting a birch log into long blanks for the darts. The complete darts will be somewhere around a...
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Happy 2nd Birthday NLAS!
The Newfoundland and Labrador Archaeological Society was incorporated two years ago today - on May 29, 2013. Happy Birthday and congratulations to all the volunteers who've been working to make the...
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Fibre Optic Glass Blanks
I'm working on a jewellery order that includes a lot of fibre optic glass pieces. The next step is to finish pressure flaking these blanks and then notch them all. Photo Credits: Tim Rast
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Dear Canada Revenue Agency...
If I use empty Scotch bottles in my business as a raw material for jewellery, can I claim the full bottles as a expense on my taxes? How about the practice bottles? Photo Credit: Tim Rast
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Muddy Slate Lances
I'm wet grinding slate right now. I need some slate lances and ulus for an order heading to Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula. The two pieces above are half-formed Maritime Archaic reproductions....
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Fibre Optic Glass Points
The knapped fibre optic glass pieces are ready for the next stage of assembly. Some will be wire-wrapped for necklaces and earrings, while others will become cufflinks.Photo Credit: Tim Rast
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Ground Stone Tools
Ground Slate I just need one more day to finish up this order and get it shipped. Unfortunately, I have two days of CPR/First Aid training starting tomorrow morning, so that one day of work probably...
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Tags and then shipping...
Assorted fibre optic glass, obsidian, and recycled glass jewellery ready to card and then ship to the customer. Photo Credit: Tim Rast
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On to the next thing...
Four of these slate ulu reproductions are heading to Port au ChoixI finally have the order for Port au Choix out the door and I can move on to the next project. Before I leave for the field in two...
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Dart Planning and Planing
I started planing down the split birch staves for the Western Arctic atlatl darts and realized I still didn't quite have a clear picture in my mind of what I was aiming for so I paused to do a bit more...
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Birch Darts and Duck Feathers
Until they are done I'm going to keep them bundled together so they aren't tempted to bend. I spent the better part of the day working on the birch dart shafts. The split birch was fairly straight,...
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Archaic Darts
The two obsidian points are haftedin foreshafts and the chert point isin one long 182 cm long dart.Shaping, filing, sanding, and burnishing the dart shafts for the Northern Archaic and Ice Patch...
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All done but the drying
Sinew lashings on red ochreand spruce gum adhesive The Northern Archaic and Ice Patch darts and atlatls are all done. They just need to dry overnight and I can photograph them and then put them in the...
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Atlatls and Darts for Alaska and the Yukon
Chert and obisidian atlatl darts representing findsform Ice Patches in the Yukon and Alaska'sNorthern ArchaicHere's one last look at the Northern Archaic darts heading to Alaska and the Ice Patch dart...
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