Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Bone pile on November 29, 2008, 08:24:01 pm
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I finished a knife that's been on the back bunner for awhile(love these long weekends)Stopped by a freinds leather shop and dug around in his scraps and put a sheath together for it.First time I tried anything like this ,came out OK.Now I have ideas for the next one.The blade is white coral the photo don't show flake lines very well.I need to improve my photo skills.
(http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk33/Bonepile/knife2-1.jpg)
(http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk33/Bonepile/knife1.jpg)
Bone pile
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Sheesh Roger - you just don't have any quit in ya ;D. That is one fine looking blade! and a nice debitage pile behind it, or is that your quarry?
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Wow, missed this one, Roger. Nice looking point and sheath. How about some close ups?
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Her's a different shot,I'm pulling these off of Photo bucket,don't know why so small.Anywho hope this one is better.
(http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk33/Bonepile/coralblade08.jpg)
Hope all is well and good with y'all
Bone pile
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Sweet! Great looking knife-that's a wicked looking sucker..
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Ahhh, that is nice. I bet, let's see, it started out as a Marion, Newnan, or,, no tang's not long enough for a Hillsborough. Sweet.
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:) :) :) The knife and scabard are truely beautiful!!! Have been trying to figure out just where I would put them on display! Watcher
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Arrrrgggghhh!!!!! I think I will just start buying the points. I will be better off, than buying all those band aids, and getting frustrated, with a halfway decent arrow head, only to see it break in half, or start out with a nice piece of rock, and end up with a pile of flakes, and nugget. Then, I see this stuff!! Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! :( :( :(
Wayne
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Hey wayne you should see the pile of broken stuff I have!If I get two out of three with no major flaws it's a good day.It's a learning prossess,I learned not to throw the busted peices quite as far!I have a bunch of preforms with steps so big you'd trip over them.And band-aids,I can slap one on so fast I'm thinkin' about a future in the medical feild.Remember this is fun,enjoy the challange.
Bone pile- king of the scrap pile
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Thanks Bone pile. I think one problem I have, is that Eddie gave me a bucket with a mixture of different kinds of stones, a couple pieces of the stuff, that Cow Boy knocked off the knobs of hell, and some Obsidian, and various other stuff, including some colored glass. Some of the nicer stuff, I am saving for when I finally get to where I can get the rock thin, without having a thin nugget. I try one method on a piece of stone, and it seems to work, then it doesn't, and then I try it on another piece of rock, it breaks, in half. Anywhoo, I was just out there, and had to quit, because, My Girlfirend whined, until I said I would take her out to Sushi. Crap, $Ching, Ching$$! Well at least I like it too. Anyway, I will keep at it, if for no other reason than pure spite to the Lithic Gods......Maybe they will tire of laughing at me, and actually feel sorry for me. I would just like to be able to take a thick piece of rock, and thin it down. Once thin, I can do fairly well. It is just getting it thin, and then I would like to be able to make nice long flakes, consistently. I have tried all different angles, on bopping, and still only occasionally get a nice long flake to pop off. Then I start getting steps, and such. But, as the Chinese guy in the Sand Pebbles, said, Hammer, Hammer, Hammer! I have quite a flake pile, but only six decent arrow heads. I said decent, not good. But it is an improvement over what I was doing. But it takes me forever, and a day to make just one. Perhaps, when I go to bed tonight, and I put on my cutest baby face, O:)( Which ain't what it used to be) :( and pray to finally learn how to get em thin. OK, I gotta go get sushi. :D