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Offline piper

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Pinhead Clay
« on: October 20, 2011, 10:26:41 pm »
playing around in the slab pile today....

this is how I make a point from a square edge slab...(The Earl Bird way)...first a nice slab and then I cut the perform with a glass cutter





then I work it from the square edge one side at a time





then go to the grinder to remove all the deltas from this past





then past two



remove more deltas



now she is getting thin



work the edge and notch





wax and wallah you have a clay for the keeper case







I hope you like the deep south clay point...........thanks for looking............................Curt
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Offline Blacktail

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Re: Pinhead Clay
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2011, 11:16:54 pm »
wow,that is some nice rock...and you really did a great job...john
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Re: Pinhead Clay
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2011, 11:58:18 pm »
Curt, you did a fine job on that point. Rick B
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Re: Pinhead Clay
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2011, 01:15:25 am »
 Sweet, Curt, I just learned something new. Thanks! And I have some of that same Pinhead. ;)
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Re: Pinhead Clay
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2011, 06:48:04 am »
beautiful
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Re: Pinhead Clay
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2011, 08:42:56 am »
Beautiful work,very nice. :)
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Offline Tower

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Re: Pinhead Clay
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2011, 09:02:09 am »
Nice step by step! I never thought about grinding the deltas. 
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Offline Bone pile

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Re: Pinhead Clay
« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2011, 09:11:40 am »
you da man Curt,nice un'
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Re: Pinhead Clay
« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2011, 08:04:20 pm »
Is your 2nd pass over top of the first pass after the frind ?. On the same side?
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Re: Pinhead Clay
« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2011, 11:15:31 am »
 Good morning ALL ......thanks for all the nice words......I love good coral
Mullet if you have any extra coral like this I will take a flat rate box FULL..............
Nugget after each pass I will first grind off all deltas then make the next pass over the last pass sometime using the ridges from the last pass to get longer flaks IF  a longer flak is needed...hope this helps...................Thanks Curt
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Re: Pinhead Clay
« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2011, 12:10:50 pm »
Nice point!   :o
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Offline bubby

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Re: Pinhead Clay
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2011, 07:10:23 pm »
nice do- a- long, there's a guy around here that uses the wet sanderwhen the point is almost finished, then hit's the edges with the sander, then makes the final sharpining chipping, man the edges come out beautiful, Bub
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Offline bareshaft12

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Re: Pinhead Clay
« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2011, 09:22:22 pm »
 :o That is a sweet heart point man,killer thin awesome!!!
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Re: Pinhead Clay
« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2011, 01:40:38 pm »
Dang that's a HUGH point.  Nice work.  I'd like to see the tool pics added.  I've never heard of this type of knapping before.  I just barrowed a tile saw and cut some geodes w/ it that I thought if I could cut it into a slab I could maybe knap it.  Anybody ever try that?  Sweet point Piper, dpgratz
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Offline jcinpc

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Re: Pinhead Clay
« Reply #14 on: October 26, 2011, 12:53:30 am »
Awesome point Curt, if you or Eddie has any of that quality of Pinhead SIT ON IT, the source is gone gone gone. I have refused sales for months now. I am sitting on what I have left until I can find another source. Quality top shelf pinhead is rare as it is, now its endangered,lol
put that point in your roaster to bring some pink back and it wont blow up
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