I have bumped this up to the surface agian as I have found a new respect for the old stone implements from PNG. I have recently been making things out of limestone, Portland stone to be precise. Now limestone is a soft to medium stone. In these pictures the igneous stone "basalt" club head is shown next to a small limestone bowl I have been carving. I bought a pre-cut block and if I had had a stone cutting disc I may have got this far in a day and a half which is still not finished. I have been cutting the stone with proper stone cutting hardend steel tools. The forming of the stone blades on weapons like this must have taken several days of hard work keeping in mind the desired result, no drifting. I find it astonishing that there is not a lot of value attached to items like this in the weapon collecting world at the moment.
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