Good points Tim. Using stone and bone tools is more time consuming because the tool edges tend to be less durable or less sharp (depends if stone or bone or ?) but if the surviving examples of "stone age" technology tell us anything... the weapons were often well-made and cared for just as many weaponry in the metal using world back in the day.
I may polish this one down better. I would love to try my hand at carving the more elaborate designs but the pictures featuring those aren't big enough for me to really capture the detail. Maybe I carve something like this?
http://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/...40.0%2F%206339
anyways, got myself a big chunk of old black palm. Making a YANOMAMÖ club. The one on top
http://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/...%2E1%2F%202760 . If you guys don't mind I think I'll just post it here as well, I don't want to clutter EAA Forums with lots of "wood carving to make Amerindian clubs" threads since it doesn't seem to be the focus of the forum.
When I find another suitable wood, I think I am going to make another Aputu, this time a thinner handle and more concave faces and sharper edges on top. Maybe I'll even do it all with stone and bone tools someday... but my flint knapping skills are just very basic, and I'd have to find/hunt some bones first...
