Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Outbackbob48 on September 08, 2011, 11:21:23 am
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I was cleaning my garage an ran across a left over pc of floor tile that was broke. Gave it a try an surprized my self. This would be great material for begineers, had a lot of problems of harder more expesive flints an cherts, The finish side is slightly concaved an the glue side has plenty of ridges to get past. I made this point with mostly percussion an just alittle hand flaker touchup, I left the finish or cortex on just for show ;D. This blade is 4" long an 1 1/4 wide an little thicker than I like. So if anyone is just starting here is a cheap an challening enough way to get started. Feel free to comment an thanks for lookin. Bob
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nice looking stuff too. i tried some small pieces at a job site the other day and it was crap. great work bob
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Wow Bob...that's sweeeet. U gonna show me how to do that too..lol :laugh:
Do u remember the exact type or brand/who made em. Maybe that's the key seeing how jamies was crap. Or maybe its just a crapshoot. Some good some bad. Like a box of crackerjacks,ya never know what you'll find inside.
I might have to try this instead of turning all my nice rock into rubble.
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Good one Bob! I've been wondering about that tile. Figured it'd be about the same as johnstone. May try a peice one day just for S&G's :).
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Chris, not sure of the brand or type of tile, I have some left over from when I tiled my foyer, I know it was called primitive tile an I believe it was hand fired. I,ll check with my brother in law who got the tile for me a few years ago. When you come up I,ll give ya a few to hit. Paul , it worked better than any Johnnystone that I ever tried but i really never hit much of it.
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Nice!
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Sweet!! I've got some tile, when I get home tonight, 10p., I'm gonna give it a try.
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Sounds good Bob...ill bring up up my rock too. And I wanna see ya make something outta that flint ridge. Its pretty stuff. ;)
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Bob: Now that's really cool! You knapper guys make me sick. Such talent, skill. I guess that I spend too much time on the bows. Then again, there were bow makers and there were arrow makers. Gonna have to start tradin' or something. Again, just plain cool...
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Not a knapper myself,but I may have to pop a few tiles out of the floor when I get home and give it a try! Way to use the resources at hand
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Very nice blade Outbackbob48. I just made a post the other day asking if you can knapp tiles. I have been trying different things on a few small pieces of porcelain tile but I haven’t gotten very far at it. When I tried to turn the edge with percussion I keep snapping them, so I turned the edge with pressure and brought it to one face and then used percussion that seemed to help but I keep getting steps, think its because I’m trying to drive the flakes too far into the flat faces. How did you go about making that blade? Also I can only see your last two pictures, the other ones will only load about 1/4 inch of the picture then stop, never had it happen before to any other pictures that people have posted. Could you maybe try to repost them because I would really like to see them? Thanks
Bushman