Bone tools 4: Primitive bone tweezers & tick remover & water drop magnifying lens 🦴
Channel: Make It Primitive
Date: 2021-05-14

It's tick season again. Every time come back from a trip through the woods, I bring along a couple of these bloodsuckers, despite using copious amounts of repellent. And they are more than just annoying, they are vectors for many serious tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease or TBE.

Of course I have good tweezers, tick removers and a magnifying glass at home to deal with this problem. But I wondered: What would one do in a primitive scenario? So I grabbed a couple of deer bone pieces and made primitive versions of these tools.

And they seem to work quite well. Apart from the magnifying lens maybe, which only offers a moderate amount of magnification - though it might be just enough to decide the question "is it a tick or just a clingy piece of dirt?".

00:00 bone tweezers
02:03 bone tick remover tool
03:13 bone water drop magnifying lens
 
Now all I need is a tick bite in a place where I can film myself removing it. Unfortunately, they seem to possess some kind of sixth sense in finding spots that one can't see and/or reach oneself. I didn't want to hold off publishing this video until I found one on an accessible body part, so blackberry thorns and aphids had to stand in for now. 

Follow me here or on Instagram if you don't want to miss the real-life test once I get the opportunity!

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