Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Poggins on July 15, 2013, 11:42:53 pm
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I tried my first point today , I was at my mom's today .
There is an old railroad bed and it has some rock that had been hauled in in 1912 and used as riprap around some of the creek tunnels . I went down and used an old brick for a hammer stone and found a rock that wasn't fractured to bad . When I hit this particular rock a shard poped off and I gathered it up with the rock. While I was at my mom's place I figured I'd go ahead and give it a try ( wasn't doing anything but sitting around anyhow) . All I could find to work on the shard with was a couple of old rusty nails but they got the job done. Not pretty but it's my first one , I have an antler bopper and a copper flacker that I made but they were at home , I have played around with the bopper and flacker but haven't tried to knapp a point until now.
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better than mine! Looks like there is another person who has tried steel for knapping besides a crazy squirrel!
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Just working with what was available at the time, working on the turnpike has had it's advantages , got a box full of broken antlers to work with .
Just need to keep at it .
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Better than my first point, nice job ! Looks like you found some good rock to work as well. Keep at it and your points will improve over time.
Tracy
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It's a little grainy and pretty hard , with such a thin peace I didn't want to break it trying to get longer flakes. If I can get a bigger shard to turn loose I'll try and get bigger flakes and a better point , the way this rock is I may not be able to get a bigger shard without crushing it . Not sure where they hauled the rock in from but I may be able to find more of it , so much of it is fractured up so bad all I get is gravel when I strike it .
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Welcome to the addiction ;)not bad at all for your first one. the rock you knocked that spall off of looks like it could yeild many more.
bone pile
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Great looking point now put it in a safe place so it wont get lost. You will enjoy looking at it later.
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I got a few more from that rock , with the dark grainy side and the lighter chalky side and several fractures I was probably lucky to save the ones I got .
Here is a picture of the rock after I started , the center flakes better than the edges , I don't know where the railroad would have hauled it in from or what type of rock it is but I can get several more of them ranging from almost white to dark grey and have seen a little red also. I plan to gather as much of it as I can and even if it is fractured bad I should be able to get at least one or two heads from most of them .
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Very nice looking rock. You should get several good points from it. And yes most definately save that point, in a few years you will look back and enjoy how far you have come!
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That's the way to do it! Nice looking first point!
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Got two more , the one on the right I done last night .
Been practicing a little trying to get better flakes and using antler on the one last night and copper on the other.
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Looks like you have some real nice working rock there. Points are looking good. Btw, is that a miniature self bow and arrow next to the penny or a picture?
Tracy
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Points are setting on the cover of my TBB volume one.
The rock is a little grainy , some of it is nice and I'm saving it back, that rock was from the old Katy Railroad the date on the drain going under is 1912 , need to go gather more ( the old railroad bed goes across my brother's place ) .
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Poggins,
Nice points and a good start. I worked for the Katy RR as a youngster out of Denison.
Looks like you've got lots of knapping to do out of that one rock!
Knapper
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That looks like "Boone" chert. It comes from around Talequah, OK. Don't know where you found it but it sure looks like Boone.
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I live in Lincoln county Oklahoma , the old Katy railroad went through Tryon and they used the rock for riprap at most of the drainages that went under the tracks . Was wondering where they may have gotten it , a lot of it is fractured but I've been able to get some good flakes from them .
I'm going to try and cook some of it when I get set up for it , I have a big fire ring and can go to the river for some sand , I'll use a cut off drum to treat it in.
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Sounds like you got it figured out :). Spall em, cook em and keep on chipping.
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I lived in Tryon and Perkins most of my life.
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Good job on your pressure flaking