How to cut a goose feather into a lovely quill pen

I ’m not going to lie , I do n’t really need to know how to cut and make a calamus penitentiary from a goose plumage . No one does anymore . But ! I was totally captivate by the unconscious process of it . It ’s funny how he uses both vintage shaft ( an 1800 ’s era quill trim back knife ) with modernistic technology ( a NYC metro card ! ) .

The picture is fromType@Cooper showing Ewan Claytonexplaining the specific cuts you need to make to turn a plumage into a quill feather .

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