I’m really digging the collection of user-submitted articles on primitive technology over at PrimitiveWays. So far, one of my favorites is this article, by one Dino Labiste, about how to treat the natural pith in a deer antler to make an adhesive bed for a stub-tang blade.
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top. I wonder if I can snap a piece off a deer’s head when he’s not looking.
“Alright mate, have you seen over there, there’s this smokin’ hot doe”
“Where?”
*snap*, *yoink*
“I don’t see any- Ah the bastard”
You just have to wander the woods at the right time of year. Deer shed their antlers every year (around the beginning of Spring, I think). It amazes me just how much growth goes into those things in such a short time.
Actually, if you find a buck at the right time you just may be able to yank them off. This is a very bad idea, because it will piss him off something fierce and he will crush your head with his hooves in response. ;)
What a misleading headline. I though we were going to learn about how to arm deer with knives.