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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: footfootfoot on January 22, 2012, 12:09:15 am

Title: My First Points - Be nice, don't laugh
Post by: footfootfoot on January 22, 2012, 12:09:15 am: At least not so's I can hear you.

About a month ago someone gave me a beginner's knapping kit. Great kit, just enough spalls for me to get a taste of the rock. There is something amazing about the sound of the rock clinking. The spalls were pretty thin and potato chip shaped so I quickly ended up with some very tiny points.

I've also been working with bottle glass. Each material is quite different from the other. Every now and then I manage to get a beautiful flake to pop off just as I saw it in my mind's eye and I try to remember what I did.

I've lost a lot when notching them.

Thanks for looking. Pistachio shell for scale ;)
(http://i1069.photobucket.com/albums/u480/foot3x/points-so-far.jpg)
Title: Re: My First Points - Be nice, don't laugh
Post by: TRACY on January 22, 2012, 12:16:22 am: Nothing wrong with those points. Keep at it, it's addicting.

Tracy
Title: Re: My First Points - Be nice, don't laugh
Post by: gstoneberg on January 22, 2012, 12:47:23 am: Your notching is already better than mine. :D Keep at it.

George
Title: Re: My First Points - Be nice, don't laugh
Post by: bubby on January 22, 2012, 12:52:19 am: lookin' good, keep at it, Bub
Title: Re: My First Points - Be nice, don't laugh
Post by: Sparrow on January 22, 2012, 02:46:17 am: Look better than the first hundred I made. You will be a good knapper. ' Frank
Title: Re: My First Points - Be nice, don't laugh
Post by: Prarie Bowyer on January 22, 2012, 03:14:53 am: Seem nice to me.

How do yo uattach the ones with the big back barbs?
Title: Re: My First Points - Be nice, don't laugh
Post by: bowtarist on January 22, 2012, 11:45:52 am: Lookin good, keep @ it. Been too dang cold for me to get any knappin in.
Title: Re: My First Points - Be nice, don't laugh
Post by: Tower on January 22, 2012, 12:12:51 pm: Don't worry about the size. Those look good. My very , very , very first points were about 1/2 inch long. Give them time & practice , they will grow.
Title: Re: My First Points - Be nice, don't laugh
Post by: Bevan R. on January 22, 2012, 12:18:12 pm: I do not understand how you hold those to push a flake off. My fat fingers would cover the bigest you have posted.
Pretty darn impressive from my view.
Title: Re: My First Points - Be nice, don't laugh
Post by: iowabow on January 22, 2012, 12:20:13 pm: Those are great
Title: Re: My First Points - Be nice, don't laugh
Post by: YosemiteBen on January 22, 2012, 02:14:32 pm: Looks pretty good to me - I guess I will have to find some of my earlier work to put up here. Keep up the good work.
@ Bevan - little one are not as hard as they look. I make earring size out of flakes.
Title: Re: My First Points - Be nice, don't laugh
Post by: Bevan R. on January 22, 2012, 05:57:38 pm: Quote from: YosemiteBen on January 22, 2012, 02:14:32 pm
little one are not as hard as they look. I make earring size out of flakes.

I would end up trying to push a flake off my fingernail or put the flaker through my finger. :o
Title: Re: My First Points - Be nice, don't laugh
Post by: Knapper on January 22, 2012, 08:27:13 pm: Thats a great start!! it's very addictive though. Get ready
Title: Re: My First Points - Be nice, don't laugh
Post by: Gus on January 24, 2012, 01:57:06 am: Yes Sir!

Keep After IT!

Some of yours look an awful lot like some of mine... :)

-gus
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Post by: jamie on January 25, 2012, 07:14:27 am: awesome
Title: Re: My First Points - Be nice, don't laugh
Post by: cowboy on January 25, 2012, 09:47:07 am: That's exactly what my first batch looked like about eight years ago. I kept em but their decorating my cactus garden outside. Keep at it you'll get better every time ;).