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This slate point is tougher than it looks. I decided to try making an extra thin slate arrowhead with the goal of getting the sharpest edges possible; and expected it to fail. Everything else being equal, the thinner an edge is, the sharper it will be; but there is a point of diminishing returns where it becomes too delicate.
I was playing around in the margins today and ended up being pleasantly surprised. Instead of putting notches in the sides of this one, I used a bow drill with a nail in the end to put a hole in the center of the point; similar to what I noticed on the AH1 arrowheads from @eseeknives (#eseearrowheads)
This was partly because it’s really fun putting holes in rocks, and partly because it seemed like securing a thin point in the center rather than grinding it down on the sides might result in it being stronger; but I’m really just speculating there.
It got sharp enough that sharpening one side put a slice into my finger while I sharpened the other. I set it into a tapered dogwood foreshaft and secured it with pitch glue and stinging nettle fibers through the center hole. I put the partially cut up chicken from my slate ulu test (#groundslateulu) to good use and put the point through it twice and was happy to see that it made it through meat and bone with zero damage.
This is a thinner point than I would actually want to use for grouse or small game, but it was a fun experiment and I was happy to see it survive intact.
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