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[GooseGossett]

Question first.  What is the best way you have found attacking a 90 degree angle to create a platform? An angle like this  =>  [

I started keeping my wrists rigid and flexing my new ishi stick and boy does that make a difference!  I added a picture of one of my pressure flakes that went all the way across.  I think I made something that could at least fit in an arrow shaft and broke 2 others.  It's a step in the right direction and I'll tell you that correct form and angle made the world of difference.  Also, obsidian is like butter compared to the stuff I was working.

[Tower]

Your really comming along. But I have a question . Are you trying to pressure flake the points in your pics? They still have some meat to them.

[Bill Skinner]

Your first point broke because you put enough pressure on it to cause it to flex.  I suspect it was too steep an angle.  Some times, you have to "nibble" those thick spots down until you get the right angles to run a long flake.  You want to push almost straight in, parallel  to the width on the point. 

I also agree with Tower, you are moving into pressure flaking a little too soon, you needed to whack a couple of those preforms a couple of times to get the high spots off.

Your second point looks pretty good, keep after it, you are starting to get the hang of it.  Bill   

[GooseGossett]

Tower: I am trying to pressure flake some of the mass off.  That one was a bit thicker cause I was left with just a bit of width as I was mashing away with the bopper.  (I need to get way more accurate with the bopper) 

Bill:  The one I broke I was able to thin quite a bit but was left with a steppe and I think I did try to take too much of a chunk with a steep angle.  Most likely rushed that one.   Good info on the nibble. 

[Timo]

Steady on Goose,you are improving.

There are a few good knappins coming up later this year. A small one in Joplin around the 19th of August, then there is the bodark primitive skills camp in Sept, then the Osage knappin in the same month I think? It's in Bonneville. Try to make one if you can, the more you are around other chippers the more knowledge you will acquire.

[GooseGossett]

Timo or anyone for that matter... where would I find that info on the Joplin knappin?  Joplin is close to me and definitely doable.  The others most likely conflict with the start of school events happening in the church. 

[Timo]

Sent you a pm Goose.