Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: knap_123 on January 25, 2011, 08:49:18 pm
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man, for the last few weeks i've had knappers block! everthing i touch i break or it looks like my first months work. i guess i over did it at xmas and just need a break. its like for awhile i coualdnt build a bow for nothing. so i took a break for a few months and just finished a sure thing. or maybe its the rock or tools, naw its me. its a little frustrating but i'm sure we all do this from time to time, dont we? :-\
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Im the same. Sometimes I break every rock I touch. Then sometimes I surprise myself with a point or blade. Hope everything comes together for ya.
Tell
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knapp i like to call that "the funk"
i hate knappers funk
every rovk you hit you break,and not in the good way either
i usually give up for a few dyas and then start back
but i start back in with the pile of "who cares rock"
you know the stuff you dont care if you break cause you aint sure if thers a point in that piece or not
usually i suprise myself and find that point in it
no worries,just take a break for a bit and youll come out of it ;)
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as soon as i think its gettin easy i try to stop. thats when i start making mistakes. i'll crush an edge and just put the stone away. then when i come back to it. i'll have fresh eyes and be able to see what needs to be done. its when i dont stop myself that i turn a beautiful piece of rock into rubble.
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Happens frequently to me.
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Yep, been there. Doesn't happen too much now... I try to make one point a day and then quit. On weekends I'll make more. It's not easy to quit while I'm ahead but that's what I've trained myself to do. I always end a session in a positive way... even if all I accomplish is sorting my rocks and flakes into neat little piles. ;D
Staying in practice every day has helped me quite a bit. A lot of the process has become second nature now.
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I seem to be in the funk now. Been messing with some odds and ends here at work this week and everything looks crude to me - too thick, symetry is off. Hmm, gonna go hit another ;).
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i'm with you cowboy!
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I'm in a rut right now my self.
I have not made anything in a week. I have napped but never liked anything enough to finish it.
I need to bust out of it. :)
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Jese, im gonna take a little relief in knowing
that at your skill level of kanpping that it still happens to you
if it can happen to the best,and yes you are one of them,
then it can damn sure happen to the rest of us and still be o.k. ;D
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amen! ;D
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All I've been able to muster this week :(.
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I'll take that muster any week of the year! Lookin good to me Cowboy! Rut?
Tracy
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I think your right Tracy - I've been in rut for a while, Hehheh ;D. That's a peice of perd, dacite and glass I found down here on the beach. I'm in flint country now - south of Austin. Think maybe I'll get all fired up - I hope :).
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Hey Knap ! Send me an address. I have a point to send you. ' Frank