Arrowhead necklace: 20080430 In early April I found a flint arrowhead in my garden. It's mostly black, a little over 2 inches long, and in good shape with just about 1/4 inch broken off the tip. That arrowhead could be thousands of years old and seems to me to be a quintessential symbol of a bygone way of life. I sometimes wonder how likely it is that that way of life could again be forced upon mankind by some catacylismic event or set of circumstances - a huge asteroid or comet hitting the earth, a severe epidemic, an all out nuclear war, or some other such disruption of normal ways of living. It might be well that we keep in mind that a return to old ways of doing things is a possibility and that it is prudent to stay able to abandon our present modern ways and take up other ways of sustaining ourselves. With that in mind, it seemed a worthwhile project to take that arrowhead and attach it to a necklace that I normally wear whenever I am away from home. The necklace came with a flashdrive that I use to backup computer files. If my computer is ever lost to theft or fire, or if the harddrive fails the backup could be needed. The arrowhead on that neclace reminds me that backup of other sorts is also needed. To attach the arrowhead I stripped the plastic insulation off a 6 inch piece of number 12 solid copper electrical wire, bent the wire into a U shape around the necklace cord, twisted the two parallel lengths of the U together for 1-1/2 turns, and bent the copper to grip the arrowhead at the notches where the original user wrapped some sort of cord to bind the arrowhead to an arrow's shaft. Words and phrases descriptive of the content of this article: arrowhead necklace, arrowhead attachment, attaching an arrowhead, Down your mouse button here for a menu to see other homemade devices. Keywords: homemade toys   improvised devices   improvising devices   make it yourself   make your own   primitive design   self designed   things to make   tinkering   self reliance   simple inventions   easy things to make

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