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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: billy on December 15, 2008, 04:08:03 pm

Title: Crazy knife (pics)
Post by: billy on December 15, 2008, 04:08:03 pm
Here's a crazy knife I made.  Blade is pumpkin obsidian from Oregon, chipped into a stylized version of the feared Caribe piranha.  The handle is osage.  The handle has the skin of a water moccasin glued on it, and is accented by squirrel skin.  Both the snake and the squirrel were killed with my osage bow and stone-tipped cane arrows a few months back.  Enjoy!

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Title: Re: Crazy knife (pics)
Post by: Bowbound on December 15, 2008, 04:15:13 pm
Really, that has got to be the coolest knife i have seen in a while. Very nice. :) :)
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Post by: mullet on December 15, 2008, 07:45:14 pm
 Wow! that's cool looking , Billy, nice detail chipping. It might make a good bottle opener , too.
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Post by: Badbill on December 15, 2008, 07:51:51 pm
You should have just left the blade alone, You could have told everyone it was a fossilized lobster claw. ;D
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Post by: cowboy on December 15, 2008, 08:01:08 pm
That's a wild eccentric Billy - good knappin!! Don't recall seeing anything like that on here before :).
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Post by: Dingleberry on December 15, 2008, 08:23:31 pm
Wicked Billy.  You could rule an empire with that blade ;)
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Post by: sailordad on December 15, 2008, 08:47:34 pm
rule an empire,or atleast gut someone as you walked by and they probably wouldnt know it untill it was too late. >:D
damn that thing looks wicked :o
Title: Re: Crazy knife (pics)
Post by: Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive on December 15, 2008, 10:25:01 pm
hey, yeah, thats pretty wild. good job on that blade. looks like it wasn't easy to notch out either- Ryan
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Post by: koan on December 15, 2008, 11:44:16 pm
I CANT SEE!!!!....guess you can be blinded by pure AWESOMENESS!! Sweet....Brian
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Post by: ricktrojanowski on December 16, 2008, 12:00:32 am
I can't even imagine knapping something that wild.  You must have been sweating it out when you were getting close to being done.  That is one wicked looking blade. :o  Amazing work
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Post by: FlintWalker on December 16, 2008, 12:02:32 am
WOW!  That's cool 8)  
 Awesome work on a beautiful piece of stone, and I love the skin.  I bet it would have looked great on a bow.
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Post by: Keenan on December 16, 2008, 12:10:30 am
Wow Impresive Billy :o
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Post by: adb on December 16, 2008, 12:12:09 am
Very cool. Kinda looks like a cross between batman and a lobster.
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Post by: Justin Snyder on December 16, 2008, 12:19:18 am
AWESOME!!!!!!!
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Post by: Hillbilly on December 16, 2008, 09:44:49 am
Cool knife, nice eccentric! I'm with Eddie-now we know how cavemen opened their Corona bottles.;D
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Post by: Blacktail on December 16, 2008, 11:12:41 am
thats nice.hate to get stuck with that...i will call it crab claw...if thats ok..later john
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Post by: hawkbow on December 16, 2008, 11:41:25 am
Very cool Billy,you have that notching down pretty good... I would have had a three piece knife if i would have tried that..Hawk a/ho
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Post by: Pappy on December 16, 2008, 12:36:46 pm
Very nice,all of it. :)
   Pappy
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Post by: Bone pile on December 16, 2008, 04:11:08 pm
If it had a black tip it would look like one of those stone crab claws I just had,Good job
Bone pile
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Post by: cracker on December 17, 2008, 06:34:35 pm
That is really cool. Me so jealous. Ron
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Post by: PeteC on December 17, 2008, 06:40:10 pm
That's the wicked-est thing I've seen.Awesome job!!! Merry Christmas,and God Bless
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Post by: stickbender on December 17, 2008, 09:18:04 pm

     Looks like a prehistoric mastodon opener...... ;D ;D ;D
Beautiful work!
                                                                 Wayne


Title: Re: Crazy knife (pics)
Post by: billy on December 17, 2008, 11:45:02 pm
Thanks ya'll for the kind words.  I almost never do work like that, usually I just make arrowheads and small knives for use, not showy pieces like the one I posted.  I just decided to go crazy and see what I could make.  Glad ya'll liked it.  I may give it to my mom because she said she wanted a really cool knife.  Hope everyone has a great Christmas!