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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Jimbob on September 05, 2011, 10:26:13 am

Title: More broken rock.
Post by: Jimbob on September 05, 2011, 10:26:13 am

Well I started off with a decent spall of TX flint, started trying to thin it out and everything was going well untill.......

Title: Re: More broken rock.
Post by: bowtarist on September 05, 2011, 12:05:10 pm

OOH.  :'( 

Look at the bright side, now maybe you can get two points outta that pertty rock.  :D ???

Title: Re: More broken rock.
Post by: blackhawk on September 05, 2011, 04:35:27 pm

Suck...did it break in percussion or pressure flaking?

Title: Re: More broken rock.
Post by: Jimbob on September 05, 2011, 04:40:37 pm

Percussion.....  :(

Title: Re: More broken rock.
Post by: gstoneberg on September 05, 2011, 04:44:16 pm

As you progress you'll be able to get them thinner and closer to completion before you break them.  It's more painful then... :'( :'( :'(  I did one already this morning. :-[

I feel your pain.

George

Title: Re: More broken rock.
Post by: seider on September 05, 2011, 11:08:13 pm

dont feel bad i broke 3 real nice preforms i had i am pretty new at this and have not wrapped my head around the fact that its just a rock until its finished, in my eyes i can see the point in it so its finished in my mind.  Sorry for you though.

Title: Re: More broken rock.
Post by: Jimbob on September 06, 2011, 09:38:41 am

Thanks George.

Seider- I too try to see the point i want out of the rock, it helps me kind of like a game plan.

Title: Re: More broken rock.
Post by: jamie on September 06, 2011, 11:08:27 am

like to know where it was hit and how it was held when it broke. looks like an end shock hit

Title: Re: More broken rock.
Post by: Jimbob on September 06, 2011, 02:06:58 pm

Yeah, it was an end hit.  I had it supported by my thigh but I guess not enough.

Title: Re: More broken rock.
Post by: Gus on September 07, 2011, 12:06:26 am

Yes Sir,

Sorry to see that.

Many of my offerings to the Knapping godz look similar... :)

I'm about sixty pounds into this kapping thang and I think I finally have enough small hunting points to setup a nice mismatched set of six hunting arrahs.
Ten pounds per point?
Whew Who!

-gus

Title: Re: More broken rock.
Post by: cowboy on September 07, 2011, 12:34:40 pm

Yep, that's a bummer :(. Not enough support or too steep of an angle or both. I like to thin from the sides the mojority of the time. But then again, fluting those big clovis points ya gotta kinda hit it on the end no if's and's or but's. That was looking good.

Title: Re: More broken rock.
Post by: JustinNC on September 07, 2011, 11:39:02 pm

tip support tip support tip support...and dont get above center!....I see potential for a couple indian bullets out of those pieces left.

Title: Re: More broken rock.
Post by: Tower on September 08, 2011, 01:46:44 pm

I agree. Support the preform. I broke many a beauties before that lesson was learned, & its a hard one too.