Dan, who has spent his whole adult life splitting wood in search of useful tools, thinks he might have found a simple split of wood that must have been in common use since our ancestors walked on two legs — the split that likely informed the leaf-shaped points of the ages known as Stone and Iron. Dan likes to call these useful implements:

Clovis Point Informants

These paper knives, like his spoons, are cooked dry under a hot mix of walnut oil and beeswax, hardening and tempering the wood in Dan’s version of a prehistoric practice that he began to research some forty years ago.

 

Available products:

Lilac Wood Letter Opener LO1

Lilac wood letter opener LO1
$50 – 9 1/2” long

 

Mountain Laurel Letter Opener LO8

Mountain Laurel Letter Opener LO8
$40 – 7 3/4 inches long

 

Colorful Lilac Wood Letter Opener LO3

Colorful Lilac Wood Letter Opener LO3
$40 – 8 1/2 inches long

 

Lilac Wood Letter Opener LO9

Lilac Wood Letter Opener LO9
$40 – 7 1/2 inches long

 

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Lilac wood letter opener LO5

Lilac Wood Letter Opener LO5
$35 – 8” long

 

Lilac Wood Letter Opener LO6

Lilac Wood Letter Opener LO6
$45 – 7 1/4 inches long

 

Sleek Lilac Wood Letter Opener LO7

Sleek Lilac Wood Letter Opener LO7
$45 – 8 1/2” long