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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: leapingbare on January 10, 2010, 09:56:09 pm

Title: Knife blade.
Post by: leapingbare on January 10, 2010, 09:56:09 pm

I made this knife blade tonight, I will put it on a handle but i thought I'd share the blade with you guys.

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Post by: FlintWalker on January 10, 2010, 10:04:23 pm

That sure is a slick one 8)
  Georgetown?
Whatcha gonna use for a handle?

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Post by: leapingbare on January 10, 2010, 10:06:00 pm

Yea i think its GT, I was thinking elk.

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Post by: FlintWalker on January 10, 2010, 10:09:58 pm

You got any elk?  If you don't, I can send you a tine fron the one I got from RyanO.

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Post by: sailordad on January 10, 2010, 10:16:06 pm

WAHOLY SHAMOLEY  :o  8)

that thing is down right beautiful
cant wait to see it hafted

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Post by: mullet on January 10, 2010, 10:27:15 pm

 Nice, Jesse, kinda looked like green glass. ???

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Post by: DanaM on January 11, 2010, 08:58:08 am

Great blade, I was also thinkin some type of glass ???

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Post by: Jaeger on January 11, 2010, 09:00:27 am

You sure are pulling some long flake off there ,thats a work of art, I wonder if Indians were  trappers using flint points to swing and penetrate the vitals ,that point sure would cause something to spring a leak, it just seems so hard to collect game on any regular basis with a bow ,sometimes I wonder if they set lots of traps to keep the children in food, I believe they did alot of group drive hunting too , I know they were very smart people to leave the artifacts they leave , I just  believe it would not  be real hard to come up with a heavy spear type trap that would work easily , and you can find points in the woods just randomly  at times, A bow would be a good finisher for that type of hunting too.However they were doing it they were very good at it ,if you read about the first  thanksgiving with the Indians it talks about them just going out and getting a large number of deer for the feast ,maybe 6 deer ,I dont remember  how many but it is easy to say ,but it would take alot of doing unless deer were almost tame back then.

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Post by: leapingbare on January 11, 2010, 10:04:00 am

Nope its not glass.. its some sort of TX stuff.. i think its gorge town.
 Yea i always thought of a Indian's stone knife as there last resort tool for self defence. its there tooth or claw.

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Post by: Pappy on January 11, 2010, 10:09:28 am

Beautiful work Jesse,very nice. :)
   Pappy

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Post by: Justin Snyder on January 11, 2010, 11:16:18 am

Very nice blade for sure. Thanks for sharing it with us.

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Post by: leapingbare on January 11, 2010, 11:18:56 am

Thanks,
Justin i can only hope to make a handle for it as nice as the one you made for your obsidian blade..

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Post by: cowboy on January 11, 2010, 11:45:30 am

Looks great Jesse! Those are some beautiful flake scars!

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Post by: Justin Snyder on January 11, 2010, 06:04:28 pm

Quote from: leapingbare on January 11, 2010, 11:18:56 am

Thanks,
Justin i can only hope to make a handle for it as nice as the one you made for your obsidian blade..

Thanks, but I would trade for the ability to knapp that hard stuff.

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Post by: jamie on January 11, 2010, 08:58:53 pm

damn dude!!!!!

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Post by: crooketarrow on January 12, 2010, 12:11:14 pm

  SWEETTTTT

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Post by: recurve shooter on January 15, 2010, 09:46:28 pm

Quote from: crooketarrow on January 12, 2010, 12:11:14 pm

  SWEETTTTT

i second the motion.  ;D