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Making Pine-Pitch Adhesive

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A short video showing my method for making pine-pitch adhesive (a natural hot-melt glue using dry/solidified pine sap as its main ingredient).

Pine-pitch adhesive and other similar plant sap adhesives were used by our human ancestors for thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years.

Following this video is another demonstrating the use of pine-pitch adhesive to secure two stone points to wood shafts (and arrowhead and an atlatl dart point). "Hafting" is the term used to describe the process of affixing stone points in this fashion.

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Please excuse the "low budget" quality video!

Tom Mills
Pasadena, CA

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Making Pine-Pitch Adhesive

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  • hay were do you get ...

    hay were do you get that pestel and mortar

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    Awesome! If you find a good recipie let us know!

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    Thank you for the great video!! I just finished my first obsidian/antler knife this morning and it is rock solid thanks to your video. I can see the benefit of using manure and plan on it once this batch is used up. THANKS AGAIN

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    very interesting! Thankyou for the natural adhesive recipe :]

    I've used pine tree sap before and other types of saps and let them harden, but only alone. So this should help me out allot without having to worry about it taking so long to dry. Should help allot with my didgeridoo!

    5/5

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  • awesome vid 5*

    awesome vid 5*

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