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Title: Flint points
Post by: Kviljo on June 26, 2007, 07:52:49 pm

I've been knapping and pressure flaking some flint lately. Great fun! :)


(http://kviljo.no/bue/flint1.jpg)


Oh, and I made that "dish" (in lack of a better word ;)) from a 2" birch board some months ago.

(http://kviljo.no/bue/flint2.jpg)

Title: Re: Flint points
Post by: cowboy on June 26, 2007, 08:01:57 pm

Hey K, it is fun to knap aye? looks like you got some great starters there, you'll be amazing yourself in no time at all ;D. Good lookin bowl too.

Title: Re: Flint points
Post by: mullet on June 26, 2007, 11:41:46 pm

   Nice preforms.Man thats some good looking rock.Ground your edges a little more and set up the platforms and you can take those flat spots out of the center.You need somebody like cowboy close by,it really helps the learning curve.Good job. :)

Title: Re: Flint points
Post by: david w. on June 27, 2007, 12:09:53 am

wow nice points

Title: Re: Flint points
Post by: Hillbilly on June 27, 2007, 07:56:07 am

Good work, and looks like you have some excellent flint over there.

Title: Re: Flint points
Post by: Kviljo on June 27, 2007, 12:27:33 pm

Thanks everyone :)

Yep, it's perhaps even more fun than scraping on a dry wooden stick ;)


These are among my first points, so I'm struggeling a bit with getting long flakes. I'll grind some more, and try to set up platforms before I chip away.
Is there any good videos or pictorials on the net explaining how?

This flint is Danish. All the flint we find here in Norway has traveled from Denmark, but those are too small and has too many fractures to make anything sensible from, so these have traveled by car, hehe.

Title: Re: Flint points
Post by: DBernier on June 27, 2007, 12:35:29 pm

Nice job Kviljo. Beautiful looking flint. You certainly are not the first of us beginning nappers to struggle with long flakes. What makes me so mad   >:(  at myself is one point will look like I have been doing this for years  ;D. The next point, back to reality and mediocrity. :-[ Keep up the good work.

Dick

Title: Re: Flint points
Post by: xin on June 27, 2007, 10:31:49 pm

Kviljo,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Go to"Youtube.com".   There are some reallly good videos for beginners and experts.  They've improved my knapping tremendously.  Removing long flakes are all about strong platforms well below the center liine. 

Title: Re: Flint points
Post by: jamie on June 28, 2007, 05:38:25 am

those are exactly how i started. they look real good.

Title: Re: Flint points
Post by: Hillbilly on June 28, 2007, 07:52:07 am

Yep, look for Marty Rueter (Flintknappingtips) and Jim Winn's videoes on YouTube. Jerry Adams (Scalp Creek) has a couple good ones on there aimed toward newer knappers, also.

Title: Re: Flint points
Post by: Kviljo on June 28, 2007, 09:04:35 am

Ahh, that's great! Looks like there's hours of good material out there. Thanks!

Title: Re: Flint points
Post by: stickbender on September 30, 2007, 01:42:41 am

     I'll take everyone's word for it that you made some nice points, and bowl.  All I got was a white box with a red " X " in it.


                                                                                    Stickbender

Title: Re: Flint points
Post by: Robinwho on September 30, 2007, 06:27:55 pm

me no can see ????? :o :o

Title: Re: Flint points
Post by: D. Tiller on October 01, 2007, 09:10:35 pm

Whered they go????

Title: Re: Flint points
Post by: cowboy on October 01, 2007, 09:19:05 pm

Yep, their gone??

Title: Re: Flint points
Post by: makete on October 02, 2007, 12:41:23 pm

 ??? :'(