Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 2:04 am
I made and used my own stone axe when I was about 16. Most parts of my story don't equate into cantr, but I'm sharing it all the same.
I was on a smallish island in canada in the summer and had a few hours to kill while my dad was off in the boat fishing. (he grounded me and my brother to seperate islands, long story). There was a small granite rock, a bit smaller than a loaf of bread. I didn't have a wiki too look up how to make the stone axe (wiki =
) so I improvised. I picked it up and threw it down on the granite face of the island (it's all granite, for future reference) while kind of aiming where I wanted it to break. Three or four slams later, I had an acute angle on the chunk of stone. I found a tree that some beavers had been gnawing on (start your own bever thread, leave this one alone! ) and smacked it with the pointy bit of stone. No haft or string, just hands. In a few short minutes I had a small tree on the ground.
Same kind of idea to make a few bone knives (really not durable, needed several to carve a cobra on a walking stick)
I think we should have a stone axe in cantr. I shouldn't double production, in fact, it should only have a slight increase, but even a slight increase, say 700 instead of 600, would be a help and cement it into a basic tool along the lines of bone knives and stone hammers.
I was on a smallish island in canada in the summer and had a few hours to kill while my dad was off in the boat fishing. (he grounded me and my brother to seperate islands, long story). There was a small granite rock, a bit smaller than a loaf of bread. I didn't have a wiki too look up how to make the stone axe (wiki =
) so I improvised. I picked it up and threw it down on the granite face of the island (it's all granite, for future reference) while kind of aiming where I wanted it to break. Three or four slams later, I had an acute angle on the chunk of stone. I found a tree that some beavers had been gnawing on (start your own bever thread, leave this one alone! ) and smacked it with the pointy bit of stone. No haft or string, just hands. In a few short minutes I had a small tree on the ground.
Same kind of idea to make a few bone knives (really not durable, needed several to carve a cobra on a walking stick)
I think we should have a stone axe in cantr. I shouldn't double production, in fact, it should only have a slight increase, but even a slight increase, say 700 instead of 600, would be a help and cement it into a basic tool along the lines of bone knives and stone hammers.
