Primitive Archer

Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: nugget on January 26, 2008, 08:18:42 pm

Title: First successfull attempt ( don't laugh)
Post by: nugget on January 26, 2008, 08:18:42 pm

Here are my first points. They are small but I figure I can use them for a necklace or a small display arrow.
Enjoy!
The best one I think is the white one in the top right. The obsidian is a little concave and the gray one is too thin.
Nugget

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Title: Re: First successfull attempt ( don't laugh)
Post by: koan on January 26, 2008, 08:20:34 pm

I wont laugh Nugget..they are way better than mine....Brian

Title: Re: First successfull attempt ( don't laugh)
Post by: DanaM on January 26, 2008, 08:23:37 pm

Practice makes perfect TJ, keep at er.

Title: Re: First successfull attempt ( don't laugh)
Post by: nugget on January 26, 2008, 08:43:11 pm

 ;D I have the fever for a point. I will run out of rock before I give up.

Title: Re: First successfull attempt ( don't laugh)
Post by: Sparrow on January 26, 2008, 09:00:15 pm

 I'd bind any one of them points onto a good shaft and perforate me a rabbit,squirrel,even a turkey (Shoot him right thru the wing butts) No problem. Keep bustin' up them rocks,they get prettier fast.  Frank

Title: Re: First successfull attempt ( don't laugh)
Post by: nugget on January 26, 2008, 09:04:54 pm

plan on tryin again tomorrow.

Title: Re: First successfull attempt ( don't laugh)
Post by: Justin Snyder on January 26, 2008, 10:01:24 pm

They look good to me. Justin

Title: Re: First successfull attempt ( don't laugh)
Post by: nugget on January 26, 2008, 10:05:31 pm

Thanks Justin

Title: Re: First successfull attempt ( don't laugh)
Post by: mullet on January 26, 2008, 11:05:27 pm

  I wish my first ones looked like that . You're doing good bud. Break some more rocks.

Title: Re: First successfull attempt ( don't laugh)
Post by: cowboy on January 26, 2008, 11:09:55 pm

Your just like me and every other knapper I've ever seen nugget. The disease is incurable, you'll loose contact with friends and wive's,, and other things :). Seriously though - them ain't nothing to frown on. I spent half the night in a hotel room in Lerado one time pressure flaking points - had a dozen by midnight ;D.

Title: Re: First successfull attempt ( don't laugh)
Post by: nugget on January 27, 2008, 12:34:07 am

I about froze to death the other day . I was knapping outside ,it was windy and about 30degrees.
 No I do not have a disease.
As for loosing contact: My wife (who is very understanding) just rings the dinner bell and I come back to present time , put down my primitive toys  and resume the roll of MODERN MAN .

Title: Re: First successfull attempt ( don't laugh)
Post by: Pat B on January 27, 2008, 01:02:15 am

Nice points Nugget. If the edge is sharp and they are straight and mounted correctly on a shaft, they will kill whatever you shoot them at. Native Americans in the South East, and probably most other places, used small points to hunt deer, etc. Better penetration. ;D     Pat

Title: Re: First successfull attempt ( don't laugh)
Post by: Otoe Bow on January 27, 2008, 02:08:34 am

Nice.  If you're like me, I started with a big rock and finally made a little point.  I had to do other things, otherwise I'd have heat treated me some rock and tried some more.  Oh well, there's next weekend.  And the next, and the.....


Otoe

Title: Re: First successfull attempt ( don't laugh)
Post by: david w. on January 27, 2008, 09:51:52 pm

Nice points i want to try knapping and if mine look anyhting likt that i will be happy

Title: Re: First successfull attempt ( don't laugh)
Post by: Dingleberry on January 28, 2008, 12:04:02 pm

Good work nugget.   :)  Keep on keepin on!  Like Pat said, they are quite serviceable.