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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: gstoneberg on August 26, 2011, 12:18:22 am

Title: Pride goeth before the tip breaketh
Post by: gstoneberg on August 26, 2011, 12:18:22 am

I started another spall tonight.  Got it to a preform pretty quickly, but had a big turtleback on it.

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6210/6081523778_982e825b91_z.jpg)

Got the edge turned and knocked most of that off.

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6061/6081524150_94a5861500_z.jpg)

Had it just about ready to notch when....

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6186/6080987815_cb8f794bc2_z.jpg)

Didn't want to give up on it though, and ended up with a little short point.

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6082/6081551662_95384f328a_z.jpg)

It's a little light, but I think it's wide enough to be legal.

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6190/6081028113_f5378a0d45_z.jpg)

I punched the notches and got a long flake on the last hit on that one side.  Interesting...

George

Title: Re: Pride goeth before the tip breaketh
Post by: Tower on August 26, 2011, 12:21:40 am

That's a nice save . Gorgeous stone to boot.

Title: Re: Pride goeth before the tip breaketh
Post by: mullet on August 26, 2011, 12:21:56 am

 Well, that's cute ;D. Good save, George.

Title: Re: Pride goeth before the tip breaketh
Post by: ken75 on August 26, 2011, 12:59:09 am

nice point G , thought you had been taking classes from me untill i saw that you saved it !

Title: Re: Pride goeth before the tip breaketh
Post by: iowabow on August 26, 2011, 09:38:00 am

Nice save!

Title: Re: Pride goeth before the tip breaketh
Post by: Jimbob on August 26, 2011, 11:41:04 am

That is a nice save, I bet you had a few choice words when it broke.  I have broken the tips off of most of mine and it takes alot not to chuck it into the woods.

Title: Re: Pride goeth before the tip breaketh
Post by: gstoneberg on August 26, 2011, 12:53:12 pm

Thanks guys.  Almost all the stone I have is grey to brown.  Not quite root beer colored but nice none-the-less.  I don't know if it got that color in heat treating or started that way.  I suspect the latter.  Patrick heat treated it.

The tip broke because I overshot a flake on the other side from the picture which made it thinner there then the point or the middle.  There was a hard spot on the edge there too and I was trying to get a nicer edge before sharpening.  I knew better but am just too stubborn.  I really like the little point, might do another one that shape leaving it thicker to get more weight.

George

Title: Re: Pride goeth before the tip breaketh
Post by: Tower on August 26, 2011, 02:50:23 pm

I'm not sure how your thinning your tips W/pressure. If it helps, I thin my tip W/pressure but I make them travel diagonally down toward the base. This helps prevent overshots & also helps remove any high spots near the edge W/out breaking the tip.