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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Bill Skinner on March 03, 2012, 11:48:16 pm

Title: Watched Curtis Smith
Post by: Bill Skinner on March 03, 2012, 11:48:16 pm

I watched Curtis Smith make several of his really wide, super thin points and blades today.  WOW!!!  I have to learn to knap all over again.

Title: Re: Watched Curtis Smith
Post by: cowboy on March 08, 2012, 08:34:09 pm

I hear ya Bill! I pulled him off to the side several years ago and with his help went to work on a peice of Georgetown i bought from him. That boy can really rare back and punch into a tiny platform with dead on accuracy! Unreal how thin he can get em..

Title: Re: Watched Curtis Smith
Post by: D. Tiller on March 08, 2012, 08:38:05 pm

 :o

Title: Re: Watched Curtis Smith
Post by: mullet on March 10, 2012, 12:04:55 am

Bill, Paul; is he percussion flaking or indirect flaking?

Title: Re: Watched Curtis Smith
Post by: cowboy on March 10, 2012, 10:38:40 am

He does direct percussion Eddie. Mostly with copper boppers he makes. He showed me one of his experimental peices he'd made earlier. Don't know what the W/T ratio was but was 3 1/2 - 4 inches wide and paper thin almost. Purty darn impressive :).