ok i finished it. this one started out as a huge spall of riley dacite about 16 inches long. At first i tried to knap a foot-long salmon out of it, but ran into issues... so i burinated the tail off the half-formed salmon in order to create a square pommel for the dagger. the handle is just over an inch in width and thickness (1:1), the blade is about 2.5 inches wide and just over 1/2 inch thick at the widepoint (1:5). over all it is 9.5 inches long. the blade was mostly done with antler billets and copper pressure. the handle was done with a porphry hammerstone ( kinda like a quartzite with speckles of white- as seen in emory strong collections). Once the handle got to about 2:1, i used an antler sleeved copper punch and copper ishi stick. Also, mistakes were made and hand grinding was done (just rubbed it on a grinder wheel). Like many originals this one has a stranded grinding patch or two. I cannot fathom making this out of real flint!
clint- i got your package- thanks very much that horn is huge!
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