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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Tower on May 07, 2012, 01:37:26 am

Title: Trying to find time
Post by: Tower on May 07, 2012, 01:37:26 am

Been busy at work & its just gettin started. Broke a lot points this week so remember slow & steady fellas. Don't rush it. These are the only ones I've finished. The larger one is out of raw local flint. I picked up about 700 lbs of it at a local back fill site. I didn't even put a dent in it. Need to pick up more but stitches in my leg is slowing me down. Some are about 50 lbs in weight. Hope y'all enjoy. Tower

Title: Re: Trying to find time
Post by: Sparrow on May 07, 2012, 01:48:34 am

Very nice ! Looks like a good rock to work. Great looking points as usual. That last one looks like a real pig sticker  '  Frank

Title: Re: Trying to find time
Post by: jamie on May 07, 2012, 07:59:20 am

wicked

Title: Re: Trying to find time
Post by: gstoneberg on May 07, 2012, 08:30:38 am

Beauties Don, both of them.  Glad you have your pickup full of rock again.  I've been doing a lot of thinning with percussion...and a lot of breaking with percussion.   Also cutting myself a lot more these days it seems.  Painful to bust up all that good stuff.  Thanks again for your help.

George

Title: Re: Trying to find time
Post by: cowboy on May 07, 2012, 09:23:20 am

them look good man! I'm gonna make it down to New Braunfels one of these days, save some of that rock for us highlanders ;D.

Title: Re: Trying to find time
Post by: neuse on May 07, 2012, 10:06:45 am

Looks great Don. How did you get stitches in your leg?

Title: Re: Trying to find time
Post by: JEB on May 07, 2012, 10:33:22 am

Don and his brother are good folks and Don is an artist when it comes to knapping.  Wife and I saw his work first hand this past winter.  Took us to his source spot for some material and then on to  his favorite lunch spot.

Title: Re: Trying to find time
Post by: Tower on May 07, 2012, 11:06:13 am

Neuse, I was kinda showing off while cutting a B-day cake & put the butcher knike 2.5 inches in my leg. Everyone there told me I failed my Ninja test.

Title: Re: Trying to find time
Post by: Bone pile on May 07, 2012, 11:15:00 am

Always a pleasure to veiw your work
Roger

Title: Re: Trying to find time
Post by: Stringman on May 07, 2012, 01:40:22 pm

Very nice Don. Always like looking at ur points. still marvel at how thin you get em.

Title: Re: Trying to find time
Post by: seider on May 07, 2012, 09:46:18 pm

Good looking point there.  Ask your brother about him messing with a knife and it going in his boot at work one day.. 

Title: Re: Trying to find time
Post by: Jimbob on May 08, 2012, 07:41:16 am

Those look great Don!