here's the antler hammer. I just used it like a copper bopper as a spearment.
I have never been able to get antler to work well. The humility here now is 89% and maybe that is part of it but I just never could hardly get flakes to release without tearing up the antler.
This was mostly to satisfy my own curiosity and see iff overshot flakes with antler required advanced knapping skills and special methods or if it was like I figgered and found out, it really aint no big deal, and is really easy to get overshots with antler as long as you have thick steep angle platform.
I was thrilled at first as those three overshots came off clean with practicaly no edge loss on the far side, didn't require much setup on the stiched edges for a platform and they flattened that side of the biface really well.
After that though, the thrill turned to agrivation and frustration and just all out desperation to try to turn the edge and get flakes across the other face. I couldn't get a pressure flake to save my life with an antler tine and it was no longer fun anymore.
But anyway! I love a good overshot flake and strive to get them when I knap with copper but they really seem more of a novelty than a functional means of creating a finished surface of a point. I think the only place they are practical is on larger bifaces to make them look cool until time to work them down farther.
Large wide spreading overshots right in the middle are the easiest ones to make like AT posted here, It's real easy to take off a lot of the far side too like AT posted here and on his video for Zuma too. My three overshots terminated really nicely right on the margins of the far side and I'm not saying that to take credit cause it was mostly luck because I just used the antler hammer exactly like I would have used a copper bopper. I don't know but I have pretty good luck terminating overshots on the far margin by freehand supporting the piece with the far edge pressed and seated lightly into the palm, a finger or two underneath close to the platform ( preferably on each side) and my thumb placed right above the platform with a light squeeze enough to be able to lightly press the far side into the palm.
AncientTech, Full bazooka overshots are cool I have to admit they are. But what the heck good is that other than to show off how too much support and power will turn up and take off too much of the far edge and leave you with more material n the overshot flake than whats left in the biface.
does Mr. Cord know what to do next with his now thin in the middle biface? Did you instruct him on what to do after a full bazooka overshot, besides take pics with the overshot flake all in the way of the more important piece,(the biface) to show how the good ol full bazooka overshot was a usefull strategy in the reduction of the core and facilitates farther flake removals from the core?
I just wandering because to me overshots seem really easy to create but not always easy to work with once they are put on.
P.S. Thanks for sharing the videos and your work.
