latest knives + massive overshot

[aaron]

here are a couple knives I made recently. The one with the white blade is a thick novaculite  retouched flake hafted in a deer bone. The other is a thick danish flint biface in a red deer antler- both have a tang  almost as long as the blade. either fits in the birch bark sheath i wove at Echoes in Time. Pigment paints and goat rawhide on both.
Behind them is a large preform I was working on today- Made from "riley dacite" and knapped with the elk hammer pictured- I was pretty happy with the hand-sized flakes, but stopped after going a little to far with one massive overshot.

[cowboy]

Man, I love workin me some dacite. Looks like you got all of that flake and then some, too bad it overshot so big. Cool knives..

[mullet]

 That Dacite looks like what I have, heard it was called "butter". Really nice knives, ya made.

[Timo]

Man that is a serious overshot! Looks like yo got some nice spalls of it though.

[Tower]

Sometimes ya can stop overshots by keeping a finger a little up from the other side.

[aaron]

tower, can you explain that a bit more?

[Tower]

I'll try. When I set up a platform for an overshot I put a finger or two about 1/4 in from the other side & push in to the platform & this usually stops the flake at the fingertips witha  hinge. On a percussion flake it's a short flake to feather it in, on a pressuer flake you apply pressuer to feather it in. There the best way to thin for me. It leaves beautiful flake scars.

[JackCrafty]

Still trying to control overshots on my knapping.  Yours looks great!  Lots of energy there...you smacked it pretty hard.  I think I would have cracked the piece in half.