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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: james parker on December 22, 2008, 05:56:55 pm

Title: knives
Post by: james parker on December 22, 2008, 05:56:55 pm
hers a few  knives i made for christmas gifts,what do you think?     robustus

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Title: Re: knives
Post by: mullet on December 22, 2008, 06:04:10 pm
  Man, those are nice James. Which one is mine? Or is that Becca working on it? ;)   Merry Christmas.
Title: Re: knives
Post by: james parker on December 22, 2008, 06:22:52 pm
sorry eddie ,remind me next year,ill see what i can do--,us being branch kin and all...merry christmas.....james and family
Title: Re: knives
Post by: RidgeRunner on December 22, 2008, 06:31:31 pm
I am with Eddie...  I think I need to be on your Chrismas List. ;D
Those all look real good.

Sure hope you can make it see Pappy in the spring.
Someone needs to give me some knapping lessons and I would love to learn all natural knapping.
However, bearfoot just might be to much to expect from me. :D

David
Title: Re: knives
Post by: sailordad on December 22, 2008, 06:41:46 pm
 :o :o damn dude  :o :o

those are simply incredible.
man i wish i had them kinda mad skills,heck i just wish i knew how to knapp period.
man some of you guys make that look so easy,i'll bet that took years of practice to be that good.

wow you are going to make some folks real happy with them knives.


                                                                                       peace,
                                                                                              tim
Title: Re: knives
Post by: DanaM on December 22, 2008, 06:57:32 pm
Dang if eddie ain't on yer Christmas list then I have no hope :'(
Incredible work James.

James PM me yer address so I can get that package out to ya eh.
Title: Re: knives
Post by: Hillbilly on December 22, 2008, 07:23:54 pm
I think you can send mine on up any time, cuzzin. And I'm a whole lot closer to the spring of the Parker branch than Eddie, he's one a them flatlander twicet removed Parkers.  ;D Awesome knives, James-I think anybody who gets one of those should be hohohoing. :)
Title: Re: knives
Post by: knightd on December 22, 2008, 08:33:50 pm
Those are very nice James.. Ulu shaped one..
Title: Re: knives
Post by: cowboy on December 22, 2008, 08:57:23 pm
Holy cow! Let me wipe the slobber off my mouth. OK, ahem.....Wow James! I played with that oblique transverse whatever you call it once but failed misserably ;D. How would a person get on yer Christmas list by the way ::).
Title: Re: knives
Post by: PeteDavis on December 22, 2008, 09:04:19 pm
Killer blades JP. I was gonna post mine, but I think I better wait....

Hey, I saw Rick Robbins last night, the fly rod builder....did you know he lives two hollows over from me? He told me you and he had met this summer....

Happy Holidays sir!

PD
Title: Re: knives
Post by: Dingleberry on December 22, 2008, 11:24:49 pm
What, only 19.  ;D The elves must have been busy. Always impressive.
Title: Re: knives
Post by: Blacktail on December 23, 2008, 01:37:20 am
holy cow james,that is some sweet work....i dont wont one for christmas...i want to know how you made them....are they fogged....if so you might have to do a how to on pa..thanks for sharing .john
Title: Re: knives
Post by: stickbender on December 23, 2008, 03:02:59 am

     Dang Dude!  Man that is a nice array!  I am with Cowboy.  That is some beautiful Flaking!  Yeah, I guess if Poor ol Eddie ain't gonna get one, I guess I ain't either.  Oh well, maybe one day, I will be sorta that good, and try my hand at that.  If I can just get the material, and get it spalled off right.  Again, those are awesome! :o :)

                                                                              Wayne
Title: Re: knives
Post by: james parker on December 23, 2008, 10:34:04 am
thanks everyone,and all my twice removed cuzzins,especially the real ugly ones.  heres a couple of close up pics  ;;;;;;;;;;  james

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Title: Re: knives
Post by: cowboy on December 23, 2008, 10:36:27 am
Beautiful flaking! fog?
Title: Re: knives
Post by: Hillbilly on December 23, 2008, 11:08:26 am
Man, those are slick. That ulu is cool, don't see many of them. And the ugliness just comes with the gene pool, how in the world could we be purty if we're even remotely related to something that looks like you? ;D It's a good thing you can knap that good and build all them purty bows and stuff, since you sure ain't gonna get rich in the modeling business. ;D
Title: Re: knives
Post by: DanaM on December 23, 2008, 11:40:20 am
Ulu? I thought it was a Bat-A-Rang :D
Title: Re: knives
Post by: Badbill on December 23, 2008, 11:52:08 am
I like them all! but my favorite is the one in the second close up with the fluted wood handle. SWEET!
Title: Re: knives
Post by: mullet on December 23, 2008, 02:14:53 pm
  Dang it Hillbilly! I think I'd be insulted if I didn't know that the distant Cuz' was a dead ringer for Earnest T. Bass.
Title: Re: knives
Post by: leapingbare on December 23, 2008, 04:17:30 pm
Inspiring James.. the same insparaction i got 8 years ago when i seen your work..
Title: Re: knives
Post by: John K on December 23, 2008, 07:23:33 pm
Very nice ! I have something to shoot for now........to be that good at knapping  8)
Title: Re: knives
Post by: stringstretcher on December 23, 2008, 08:36:20 pm
Man, how does one go about getting into that family....simply beautiful
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Post by: koan on December 23, 2008, 08:43:13 pm
Wow James! Those are awesome! Really like the dacite(Danish?) dagger....Brian
Title: Re: knives
Post by: sailordad on December 23, 2008, 10:51:22 pm
  Dang it Hillbilly! I think I'd be insulted if I didn't know that the distant Cuz' was a dead ringer for Earnest T. Bass.

i had a great uncle that looked exactly like ernest t. bass.i mean dead on ringer,could have been twins
Title: Re: knives
Post by: Pappy on December 24, 2008, 05:42:52 am
Beautiful bunch of work,wished I could get on your Christmas list. ;) ;D
   Pappy
Title: Re: knives
Post by: stickbender on December 24, 2008, 09:54:37 pm

     Hillbilly, if it wernt fer them Parkers, the rest of us would not be so too pretty good looking.  Whut with usin them as a comparison, and so forth.  I heard that one family of them Parkers, were so ugly, that when they went huntin they didn't take anything, to shoot with, they just " uglied " the critters to death.  They would see a squirrel, or rabbit, or deer, or whatever, and they would hide their face, and then when they were close enough, they would just look up at the critter, and it would just fall over dead.  The old man is still huntin, but his wife had to quit.  As she got older, she got uglier, and when she uglied the critters, she was tearing them up too bad. ;D ;D  No offense meant to the various clans of Parkers, that are scattered about.  Especially those that made the old Parker Brothers shotguns, one of which I have, and the Parkers who made  ;)those pens...... Now about them knives......Absolutely beautiful. ;)  Those are going to be some fantastic Christmas Gifts.  If flattery will help, I will be more than glad to change the above story, to another name......Eddie doesn't need one, he can make his own.  I on the other hand, am still a rank amateur, and would hold, and admire one of those knives, especially one of the daggers, with the Ulu.  I would love it, and hug it, and I would call it George......I hope you have a very Merry Christmas, and there is something wonderful under your tree, tomorrow.

                                                               ;D ;D Wayne  ;D ;D
Title: Re: knives
Post by: james parker on December 25, 2008, 10:34:07 am
thanks all you guys,i hope santa brought eddie and hillbilly some new paper bags,and a couple crayons,then they can look like anybody they want.merry christmas all...............james
Title: Re: knives
Post by: Hillbilly on December 25, 2008, 11:29:07 am
That might help some with Eddie, but by gawrsh, I'm man-purty. ;D
Title: Re: knives
Post by: Coo-wah-chobee on December 25, 2008, 11:33:42 am
That might help some with Eddie, but by gawrsh, I'm man-purty. ;D



........... :D I gotta lay back down NOW ! ;D...........bob
Title: Re: knives
Post by: Pat B on December 25, 2008, 12:22:48 pm
James, I know I'm not related but I am one of your ugliest friends! ;D You told me that yourself.
  Hope you, Becca and Gabriel have a very Merry Christmas. I bet Gabriel was a wildman this morning.
  Alan told me that ya'll have an unwrapped package that you will open in a few months. Congrats!!!  8) 8) 8)     Pat
Title: Re: knives
Post by: predatorcaller on December 25, 2008, 12:29:38 pm
DAMN...... that ulu is tight! ha thats is great work. i wish you were freaking santa. GREAT WORK MAN
Title: Re: knives
Post by: Justin Snyder on December 25, 2008, 12:31:13 pm
Does anyone really know what Pat looks like.  Someone famous could be hiding under all those whiskers and we would never know.

Nice work James, maybe you could make Pat a razor.  :o ;D
Title: Re: knives
Post by: james parker on December 25, 2008, 12:41:22 pm
yea gotta another in the oven,got me thinking ,when you and allen were here i kinda lost both of you for about two min,guess thats all it took ,now i got to figure out which one of you it might have been,then i git to go shooting one of you,if its got a beard ill just flip a coin......james
Title: Re: knives
Post by: leapingbare on December 25, 2008, 03:09:14 pm
ROFL! ;D ;D
 Congratulations Bud!
Title: Re: knives
Post by: Pat B on December 25, 2008, 03:52:10 pm
It was the ugliest one!!!!! ;D  Actually it must have been Alan. Don't take me that long. ::)
Title: Re: knives
Post by: Hillbilly on December 26, 2008, 12:21:33 pm
Congatulations, James! And if it was either one of them fellers, well, it don't look too good....;D
Title: Re: knives
Post by: mullet on December 26, 2008, 03:41:36 pm
  Congratulations!, Sure hope the little one takes after Momma, no matter who the culprit is.
Title: Re: knives
Post by: Woodland Roamer on December 26, 2008, 09:24:22 pm
Dang good looking knives James and congrats!!

Alan