Hafting

**steve2** · 12-09-2007, 06:34 PM

I want to know if anyone has experience with hafting pecked stone tools.
I pecked a groove around an oval shaped rock, but am having trouble finding
a plant stem that I can wrap around the groove to form a handle. I'm going to use the pecked stone tool for a pounding tool. I've tried willow and red osier dogwood and found that these plants break. Do the stems need to be heated before bending?

**Rick** · 12-09-2007, 07:02 PM

Hey, Steve. Try this link. This guy uses dogbane string and pine pitch. Yucca stem for the handle.

http://ancestralskills.blogspot.com/...e-blade-i.html