Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: mullet on January 03, 2009, 08:30:55 pm
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Sometimes you just have to quit.I left that last little flat spot. I couldn't bring myself to break those ears and anyway you won't see it on an arrow. It is still one inch wide and the ears are sharp, it's legal.
The other two are for Bob Ocseola for turkey season , still have some more to go. The Tanto was a pi$$*^. I was grinding the Bamboo handle to shape when my 12" sander snatched it out of my hand and bounced it off the roof of my shop. It didn't break then, and I almost caught it but it hit the leg on my Band saw. :'( :'(
I'll post another knife I made today and two more points tomorrow.
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Dangit Man! Don't you just hate when stuff like that happens. >:( On the bright side, the points are beautiful. ;D
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Thanks Shannon, yea I was afraid that 60 grit might grab it . But I couldn't bring myself to hang onto the sharp blade real tight.
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Next time. Take you some good 'ol duct tape and tape around the blade so's ya won't cut yerself, then ye can hang on real tight. ;)
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That's tough luck Eddie. Time to break out the super glue.Ron
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Too late, Ron. Already made another point out of it. :)
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Man, thats a heartbreaker :'(....Brian
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LOL.. sorry Eddie.. i had to laugh.. good lookin knapping.. show us a HC point!
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I wonder of the Split garden Hose would work on Flint Blades.....Sure has saved me with the Stainless Steel Blades I have been making....might want to give it a try....I just split it and tape it on....I have tried just Duct Tape....and still got cut....thats why I tried the Hose
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Oh, how well I know the feeling. I had a very nice point going on a piece of agate, that was in the bucket, and as I looked at it, I saw that , well hell, I can get two points out of this if I just notch it right here, and ......everything was going great, and it broke above the notch! Well, I have one small point, and one medium point. If I hadn't tried to get two points, I would have had a great point, about 2 1/2-3 inches long. Oh poopee! >:( I was trying to make the finished point that I made out of the soft white stuff, just a little bit lies triangular, and it was going great, and ...... then I noticed that one of the nice and sharp ears wasn't there! >:( Oh well. Now, I will leave well enough alone, and I will not try to get two points, in stead of one nice one. I wil wait till I am somewhat better than I am now. ;D At least you were able to salvage a point out of it.
Wayne
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Jesse, Don't feel bad, my wife laughed, too. The pictures of the two points together, The one on the left is Horse Creek.
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oh cool !
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Here's the save on the broken one. And since Jesse was asking about fluting, I went ahead and fluted both sides with a pressure flaker.
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Nice Save on the Blade Eddie.......Hey I got some Nails in an Envelope just waiting to send out to You.......
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What ya waiting on? ;) just kidding. Thanks.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that waits until I'm done to break my points or knives. Good looking work. Justin
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Thanks Justin.
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Nice Save Eddie..
I dont have a problem fllooting.. i just dont know how to run the floot to the tip of the point without end snapping it.. like Folsom and comberlands.
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I've watched Claude do it a couple of ways. He always leaves the point flat and sets it up in are carved out wooded platform. He then prepares and strikes the nipple as most people do. the other way is to use a little pressure vice, forgot the name, but it's like a little lever and you just keep applying pressure until it pops.
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I have seen the vice.. but it dose not leave a floot flake scare thats typical of a original point.
I do have one idea.. i could make a preform 3'' longer then i need it.. so lets say 6'' total.. than knock off one good float over 1/2 down the point. than knock the 2nd float off hard enough to end snap it. take my pressure flaker and touch it up.. and wala got a 3'' Folsom.. thats the plan. i dont have a pice of rock large enough over here so I'll have to wait till i get bake to try this.
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Jesse, part of the thing I was talking about is to set the tip up on a bevel toward the side you're fluting. Then when you put the tip on a block of antler or hardwood and smack the nipple, it's almost like bipolar flaking. Most original Folsoms are a lot smaller than Clovis points-like 2-3" long.
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Hey Eddie, where ya get the obsidian? Looks really nice stuff.
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Some came from Glass Buttes, compliments of Brian Melton. The other came from Justin, Utah. They are both good. I found the purple streaks in the stuff from Justin.
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Hillbilly can you show me at the classic?
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has anyone made a primitive saw to split antler? any other primitive ways to split antler appreciated as well.
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Jesse, I'll try-I sure haven't mastered fluting folsoms yet, either. I can get a decent Clovis now and then, but I'm sure no expert on fluting. I'm positive I can show you how to roll-fracture one into two pieces on the second flute. ;D I'm like you, jig fluting just don't do it for me-I like to try to figure out how to do it like they did it. EOTWS, the usual primitive method of splitting antler is to soak it until it gets soft, then score it with a burin flake and split it.
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Nice job on the points Eddie. Too bad on the knife but nice save though, I'll have to get around to some fluting one of these days.
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thanks Paul.
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thanks hillbilly any more tips on knapping?