On the 15th-16th of May 2010 Will and Nick Mission are teaming up to teach you how to deal with a deer after the kill.
Whats on offer: During the weekend, we will teach you how to check the deer was in good health at its time of death. We then look at the butchery, locating the different cuts of meat. This will then be cooked in various ways such as earth ovens, spit roasting, Drying jerky etc. So that on Saturday evening we can feast upon this prize meat.
While this is going on you will be able to Tan a top quality deer skin under Wills Instruction, to achieve a nice finish so you can use the skin as a rug or bag etc. We will also look at other aspects of the deer such as the bones and sinews to show you how to make primitive tools from them.
The cost is £85 per person. Contact Will for further details.
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FLINT KNAPPING WORKSHOPS - Come along and join a group on set days for £50 per person.
Our Flint Knapping workshops can be carried out either at our home base or at a customer's preferred location.
During the course customers will learn the basic art and understanding of Flint Knapping and learn how to make a range of prehistoric tools from arrowheads to axe heads.
Courses can be specially designed to a customer's requirement. The tools used during the course are soft antler hammers, a range of different quartzite pebbles and flint.
BOW MAKING WORKSHOPS - £100 per day
Our Bow Making workshops are carried out at our home base cover the activities required to construct a six foot long bow. The course duration is three days to construct a bow from start to finish, or two days if you wish to have me prepare the stave for you in advanve of you arriving.
Types of wood used in our bows range from Hickory, Yew, Lemonwood, Purple Heart, Green Heart and Maple. The tips of the bow can be made from buffalo horn, antler or wood. Strings are made from traditional Irish linen. Handles are finished with buckskin and fine leather or other materials such as snakeskin according to customer's own requirements.
The type of bow required can be tailored accordingly to a customers own specific requirements.
ARROW WORKSHOPS - £100 per day
Our Arrow workshops can be booked following our Bow Making workshops or as standalone courses. We are happy to for our customers to make either prehistoric or modern arrows. All prehistoric arrows are made from natural resources which include flint arrowheads. Types of feathers used are goose, turkey and pheasant.
Arrows can also be made to customers specific requirements.
BUCKSKIN WORKSHOPS - £100 per day
Our Buckskin Workshops provide customers with the knowledge of how to work a real deer skin into useable items ranging from clothing to accessories such as bags, belts, arrow quivers etc. This workshop is a real eye opener as not only do we have to cope with the visual content and the slightly rank smells, but the effort required to naturally convert the hide into useable cloth is quite something else. Using flint scrapers, brain or bark for tanning and finally smoking the skin to waterproof it. (peeing optional) it truly brings you into context with a highly valuable but underestimated cloth.
