(28 February 2016, 22:50)Steve Wrote: (28 February 2016, 19:25)T-oddity Wrote: I'm the opposite to Steve in that I put a lot of value in learning as many different skills as possible particularly old tech including knowing how to knapp a flint arrow head and make a bow from
I'm not against old tech, last weekend I built a forge and my sons and I made knives from old ring spanners, beaten into shape on my recently acquired anvil. Make do and adapt is my motto, but why spend ages trying to find a suitable piece of flint when there is wire fencing and metal scattered all over the UK ?
I'm not going back to the stone age whatever happens.
You built an actual forge? any pics? how did you do it? Having a workshop is my dream