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Summary: How to make useful items from stone in this free How-to video.

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John Olsen Through scratching and grinding rocks, John Olsen has made many authentic replica artifacts. He majored in ceramics in college and began making primitive item... read more

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How to Make Useful Items From Stone

Hi, I'm John Olsen for Expert Village. Actually this rock is what we call a kitchen drawer. We've got this piece here made, we've got a knife. We can go to our kitchen drawer and say we need a cutting tool. We can get our little stone out and take off a nice flake and these are throw away flakes. They're not much good for making anything, but they're extremely sharp. In fact if you get some of the bigger flakes that I cut off here. There's one here that this edge right here is pretty deadly. In fact some eye surgery is done with obsidian. Scalpels are made because this sharpens, when it's knocked out like this it goes to the last molecule and I think that the sharpest they can make surgical steal is 4 molecules thick. So, it's extremely sharp. Has no problem cutting anything. And tools like this, this could be used just as a tool as is. Take a hammer stone, dull the edge where you're hanging on to it. You've got yourself a wonderful cutting tool that only takes a few seconds to make. Where as this probably took me 15 minutes.

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