I was joshing you.
You know, this is
so characteristic of the primitives.
Rather than doing something--or in this case, making something--and then blabbing about it later to the other primitives, they announce they're going to do something.....and then end up not doing it.
In any other society, that'd embarrass one so much he'd go hide out of shame and humiliation.
I dunno why it doesn't in this society; I wish it would.