b'FAMOUS FABRICATORSMAKERS MARK:KENNETH DYKESOur regular look at the best makers of cool stuffaround our slingshot world. This issue, the incredible breadth of skills of Mr. Kenneth Dykes, American re-creator of primitive bushcraft technologiesMaker: .Ken DykesItems: Slingshots with matching leather holsters. Ammo pouches made from a turtles foot. Biblical Goliath-slayer stone-slings, knives crafted from knapped obsidian, prehistoric fishing stu , knives, many other crafts.Price: . Varies by item but he is righteous.I can teach, I latched onto them. And folksGame carrier and ammo am going to brag. I can spot talent. Not just the easy to identify literal awe oflove to teach. I have been out west to a lot ofpouch. Heirloom grade objects of deep beauty and obvious skillstates and met people good at what they do.leather artifactsbut the talent to then take photographsI learned from all of them.that look like they should be in aI had a Time-Life book as a kid called magazine. I spotted these amazing thingsEarly Man which had pictures of a French and Facebook befriended the maker, Kenman who knapped flint to make copies of Dykes. His images are gorgeous. It turns outancient tools and Ken can do this. He said, that he majored in photography and art inKnapping is a whole craft in itself, You college. Unsurprisingly, he makes good art incan spend a lifetime learning. I can make all directions, including these pictures. something functional but I do not consider Living just over the mountain frommyself a knapper. He even explained that Nathan Masters in North Caolina. Kenthere are di erent schools of knappers. was a lad who made bows and arrows,From Abo style where only ancient tools like we all did. Except he never stoppedare used like hammer-stone, antler orMankind fi shed long before and became gripped with love of all thingshippo tooth, to later styles that allow thewe had metal to make hooksprimitive and archaic crafts, making betteruse of copper metal hammer-rods to make bows until they were deadly. He has madefiner items.medieval crossbows and prehistoricKen is now embracing the latest tech to knapped daggers from volcanic glassshow us his ancient styles, with videos you called obsidian. He has woven biblicalcan see on Facebook or his Red Thorn stone slings from fibre and makes theBushcraft YouTube channel in which he most perfect gun holsters for his Americanshoots trick shots with his blowpipe. Not clientele. His tastes are multicultural and hejust one, but three on the neck of a turkey enjoys making things with ancient Egyptiantarget. So as well as the makers skills, hes and Kalahari Bushman roots. a demon shot.I asked him how he learned how to do allKens original makers mark is Viking runes this. And he sounded like Sarah Connor inthat mean made to protect as he makes Terminator 2. Anytime I found someone thatholsters. The new one means red thorn.You could never import this into the UK. Ammo pouch made from the foot of a turtleAnd David put his hand in his bag, took thence a stone, slang it and smote Goliath.Prehistoric volcanic glass, carefullyLINK:knapped into a vorpal blade https://www.facebook.com/kenneth.dykes.9693 037037_SSW004 makers mark.indd 37 31/07/2020 12:02'