Wow,
how many hours do you spend to make one of these?
Are some of these sharp enough to be used? (In that case, it could be a very interesting survival skill, I'd be happy to see a post on how they are made)
Have you considered selling them?
Wow,
how many hours do you spend to make one of these?
Are some of these sharp enough to be used? (In that case, it could be a very interesting survival skill, I'd be happy to see a post on how they are made)
Have you considered selling them?
It depends on the knife. My best guess is 3-10 hours spent making each knife. There are often times many steps that are completed over the course of days or weeks. It all depends on what's going in the day to day.
They are all functional to some extent. Let's say you have an obsidian spear. One or two uses out of it you've got to knap or flake the point again until its too small to use. Same goes with knives or arrowheads. If you are just using it to harvest herbs or cut up some shrooms, there should be no need to sharpen it.
Glass and obsidian blades are the sharpest. My favorite is agate because it is comparatively a much harder mineral that can get a fairly sharp edge and point.
Knowing how to knap blades is certainly a useful skill. A lot of different materials can be knapped, some are easier than others.
I sell them online and sometimes at craft fairs. Creating things feels good and if I can earn money doing it, even better.