Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Will H on February 12, 2012, 05:13:02 pm
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I bought a plastic cast of an Andice from lithics casting labs the other day. It's on the right side in the pics. I thought it might help me better replicate this style of point. So I rummaged through the knappin pit at Twin Oaks and found a couple small pieces of TX material that cowboy had left us. The first thing I noticed about the cast of the artifact is that is was REAL thin... :o 9:1 to be exact. The other thing that I knew I had to do was widen my notches out to get that tear drop shape goin... ::) After hafting one I can see why this helps ;) Anyway, it was so cold my feet went numb makin this one but I think it turned out pretty darn good! Thought Id share it with y'all. Thanks fer lookin! :) :) :)
~Will
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Will, what a great job of replicating, looks like ahhhh twins ;D ;D ;D. Did Jesse ever trick ya by tossing one of his Cumberland cast at you to catch , scared the crap out of me. :o :o :o Bob
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Thanks Bob! Yes he got me good with that one! I nearly had a heart attack! :laugh:
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Man those are fantastic Will! Never tried notches that long, probably break :). Looking at the function of this point type, it seems like the ears would almost always break off on impact with the main portion of the point still hafted in place. Beautiful points again!
Tracy
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sweet point
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That is unreal how close you got that point! I think you got it now. Were these knifes, arrowheads or spear points?
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Heck Yea, you nailed it!
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A perfect replica right there Will - man you got good fast! Only thing ya missed was knocking off the left corner of the stem, ha >:D.
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ok if you look at both you can see a step in the same place lol thats cool.
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and on both sides WOW
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Hey Will is that a copper nail?
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Thanks you guys!
Paul- thanks man ;) I hear ya, I didn't want to take it THAT far :) I really liked the narrower entry.
John- This type artifact is mostly a knife but there are some examples of them being used as projectile points. Look back at a few of my earlier posts on Andice points and you'll see more what I'm talkin bout. And yeah that's an 8d copper nail, been using it alot lately for punching.
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The Champion has done it again!! ;D ;D 8)dpgratz
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WOW! I'm almost speechless. That is one h€!! Of a point. That's one for the case.
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Very nice!
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Daaaannnnnnggggg!!!! 8)
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Nice!
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AWESOME!!!
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Thanks you all so much! I really appreciate the support. Especially from amazing knappers like you Don and Paul and you 2 Shannon ;) It feels good to finally start making the kind of points Ive wanted to make since I started knappin a couple years ago. Seems like with every new point I just get fired up even more to try and make a better or different one. I LOVE THIS KNAPPIN! :) :) :) and I love PA!
LIFE IS GOOD
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I agree,I have the knapping bug & I love this site. Its more like family!
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wow, im "*#*#ing" speechless
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SWEETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
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Dang :o
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;D ;D ;D You guys are 2 kind!!! :) :) :)
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Sweet! Nicely done.
Jim
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Thank you Jim :)