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Offline JackCrafty

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Re: Made a biface, now what point? Finished.
« Reply #30 on: January 03, 2012, 03:55:38 am »
Sweeet.   :)
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Re: Made a biface, now what point? Finished.
« Reply #31 on: January 03, 2012, 04:24:08 am »
george i bet if you took just a hair off the basel side of the notch on the right, it's just a tad narrower than the other, that you'll be able to get unstalled, nice point buy the way ;D, Bub
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Re: Made a biface, now what point? Finished.
« Reply #32 on: January 03, 2012, 09:28:10 am »
Bub, that thin notch isn't the one that stalled.  The one on the left in the picture is the culprit.  I need to stay more alert when I'm notching.  I was revelling in how long and narrow that other one was when suddenly I got nothing on the other one.  It wasn't quite as narrow as the other one and opened up at the base as I kept trying to get a flake.  I think I could have widened it a little and unstalled it, but decided to let it be and go with that.  I'll eventually get it right.  Thanks for the help.

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Re: Made a biface, now what point? Finished.
« Reply #33 on: January 03, 2012, 03:58:52 pm »
that's cool George, that side just didn't look as deep, musta been the blind guy on this end :laugh:
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Re: Made a biface, now what point? Finished.
« Reply #34 on: January 03, 2012, 04:40:23 pm »
Bub,

I'll take any and all help so it's no problem at all.  What baffles me on this stuff is that a couple weeks ago I couldn't get my points thin enough.  Now, I'm having trouble getting them to stay over 100grains.  I used to have to hold my points at quite an angle to drive a flake any distance.  Now I'm holding the point almost flat and occasionally overshoot.  If I put any angle in I get horrible steps.  I don't know what changed, it's the dangdest thing ever.  I'm still not good at pressure flaking.  I may grab my bucket of rocks and show up on Cowboy's doorstep one of these days...see if I can con him into helping a desperate old man. ;)  I think it would help my notching if I'd get a little better at pressure flaking.

Anyway please, advice and criticism are most welcome.

George
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Re: Made a biface, now what point? Finished.
« Reply #35 on: January 03, 2012, 07:12:24 pm »
Looks like a mighty fine point George. Practice makes perfect, that's what I keep telling myself with my slow learning curve ;)

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Re: Made a biface, now what point? Finished.
« Reply #36 on: January 03, 2012, 07:51:40 pm »
George i still mostly pressure flake slabs, if you've got any of the stuff i sent you work them for awhile, i use a 1/4" copper and try and get at-lest half way across all the way around then use 1/8" copper to work my way to the center on the edge, of coarse i thought i was doing good till i saw that Sawfiler has only been at it since '09 :'(, hell i wish i could do better at percussion, just gotta practice more, Bub
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Re: Made a biface, now what point? Finished.
« Reply #37 on: January 03, 2012, 10:14:50 pm »
That looks great george! your really getting the hang of that notching thing!  :D  Good job fella!
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