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Rockman Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1267 Lima, Peru Gender:	Re: BOLO Reply #45 - Oct 1^st, 2010 at 8:50pm Head smasher. (My personal favorite)
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Rockman Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1267 Lima, Peru Gender:	Re: BOLO Reply #46 - Oct 1^st, 2010 at 8:53pm And here´s my creation. It´s so much easier to hit a target with the boleadora than a sling.
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Paleoarts Interfector Viris Spurii Offline it don't mean a thing if you aint got that sling! Posts: 1993 oceanside, CA Gender:	Re: BOLO Reply #47 - Jul 8^th, 2011 at 6:59pm grooved river stones and hand twisted hemp. 32'' folded
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Re: a new bolo
Reply #48 - Jul 11^th, 2011 at 3:48am

Masiakasaurus wrote on Dec 30^th, 2009 at 3:54pm:

hybrid_throwback wrote on Dec 30^th, 2009 at 10:11am:

Great as always matie... nets were used a lot in my neck of the woods but not bolo's. Or is that bola?

The term is Bola, which means ball in spanish. Bolo means Bowling in Spanish, and is also a kind of men's neck wear in the US (imagine wearing a pair of bowling balls around your neck! Shocked

The term "bola" in spanish it means any sferic thing. "Bolo" means one of ten pieces of bowling game, and the correct word for this artefact is "boleadora" or plural (+s), at least in Spain and Argentina.

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Rockman Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1267 Lima, Peru Gender:	Re: BOLO Reply #49 - Jul 11^th, 2011 at 5:58pm Boleadora specifically refers to the 3 weight variety.
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Paleoarts Interfector Viris Spurii Offline it don't mean a thing if you aint got that sling! Posts: 1993 oceanside, CA Gender:	Re: BOLO Reply #50 - Sep 24^th, 2011 at 2:40pm some of my latest...
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Re: BOLO
Reply #51 - Oct 6^th, 2011 at 7:13pm

Hey, I'm trying to create a bola, the grooved rock type, but I tried pecking out the grooves and other than being far too time-consuming for my liking, I ended up with a much wider groove than I wanted, due to the strikes not hitting the exact same point each time, anyone else have the same problem? So yea, just wondering how do you guys create these deep and narrow slots along the rock? I'm open to suggestions for both modern and primitive methods... Thanks guys

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Paleoarts Interfector Viris Spurii Offline it don't mean a thing if you aint got that sling! Posts: 1993 oceanside, CA Gender:	Re: BOLO Reply #52 - Oct 7^th, 2011 at 10:35am since he's an ex-member i'm wondering if i should still answer this question. anyone else interested?
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Thunder Chief Funditor Offline Don't Panic! Posts: 838	Re: BOLO Reply #53 - Oct 7^th, 2011 at 11:01am Paleoarts wrote on Oct 7^th, 2011 at 10:35am: since he's an ex-member i'm wondering if i should still answer this question. anyone else interested? I'd sure like to know, if you're still up for telling.
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rockslingerboy2 Junior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 68 Ireland Gender:	Re: BOLO Reply #54 - Oct 7^th, 2011 at 11:14am Hey sorry it's me again (rockslingerboy), I have no idea why I was made an ex-member, since I never deactivated my account, hopefully the same thing doesn't happen to this account Yea Chris if you'd be willing to reveal the secret, I'd be really grateful, couldn't find any information about how to do it by searching online
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Re: BOLO
Reply #55 - Oct 8^th, 2011 at 9:59pm

rockslingerboy2 wrote on Oct 7^th, 2011 at 11:14am:

Hey sorry it's me again (rockslingerboy), I have no idea why I was made an ex-member, since I never deactivated my account, hopefully the same thing doesn't happen to this account Huh

Yea Chris if you'd be willing to reveal the secret, I'd be really grateful, couldn't find any information about how to do it by searching online Tongue

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Re: BOLO
Reply #56 - Oct 10^th, 2011 at 9:34am

welcome back, RSB2.

the truth is we don't know exactly how the ancients accomplished a lot of the things they did. all we can do is guess and try and replicate their works through trial and error. the most likely method for fine grooves in hard stone probably involved a method called indiret precussion pecking. this is where you take a chisel shaped piece of flint and haft it into an antler handle. this is then placed against your work and struck from behind with a hammer stone much like a modern steel rock chisel. the blows are much softer though and at a shallower angle and you have to do it many more times but the result will get you a fine narrow groove eventually. i make my stones with modern tools (tile saw) to save time, but i've used this method before to replicate some atlatl weights so i know it works. hope that helps.

Chris

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Re: BOLO
Reply #57 - Oct 10^th, 2011 at 3:02pm

No problem Aussie, the mistake was understandable Cheesy

Paleoarts, thanks for your help, that improvised rock chisel sounds interesting. I wonder would flint be hard enough to chisel out grooves in the kind of rocks I'm using though (rounded basalt/granite type rocks from the beach), or would it just lose its edge in no time? The ancients probably used slightly softer rocks, sacrificing a bit of hardness/density for easier workability...

I see you mentioned a modern steel rock chisel, that'd work too I suppose? I presume you can get these at hardware stores, I'm not just up for investing in a tile saw just yet, that's one serious power tool Grin

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Re: BOLO
Reply #58 - Oct 10^th, 2011 at 7:51pm

RSB, it is exactly the hardness of flint that makes it the preferred material for peck and grind work. you need something 'harder' than the stone you intend to groove, which flint is albeit britlle. you're not, however, using it to takes large chunks or flakes out of the granite or basalt, but rather crushing small (the head of a pin) sized patches with every blow. like i said this process is laborious to say the least, but that is exactly how it has been done by most cultures for thousands of years.

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fattybones Descens Offline That's not hail! Posts: 144 Halifax NS Gender:	Re: BOLO Reply #59 - Oct 16^th, 2011 at 9:31am I'd have guessed a square file and patience, learn something new every day. The balls on a bola can be made of anything, they don't have to be really hard. I'd use slate, but I'm a bit lazy and surrounded by slate. You could put a nail through a stick and make a tiny pickaxe maybe?
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