Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: vinemaplebows on March 16, 2015, 09:40:01 pm
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Always wondered how well these tiles would knap, and I like it! :D This is some sharp stuff!
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Looks good to me....
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Nice point, Brian. And it's cheap at HDepot.
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8)
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This is not the darker stuff Eddie, I will make one from that next ;)
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That looks good. I have chipped some tile, and it was fun to knapp. It's flaking characteristics are consistent through and through. I select a very hard type that is not glazed on the surface.
WA
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I am going to have to take a look next time I am in the store. I didn't know they had tiles that were not glazed. What size are the tiles?
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Oh yea... nice points!
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First, nice point there and looks great!
I think we're banned from linking to anything for sale here, but I recently had my floors tiled with some Home Depot tile and it was porcelain. The stuff was so hard that we had to cut it with a saw - it wouldn't follow a wheel type tile cutter line. Anyway, there is a glaze on the tile that removes easily and it knaps well - look for "Montagna Dapple Gray Porcelain Floor and Wall Tile." It's a 6" X 24" plank tile and cost the whopping sum of $2.39 ea AND you can buy them individually. I think any color in this tile series would be the same. It is indeed porcelain and will not absorb water - so it is well vitrified in the mfg. process, which makes for good chippin'.
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First, nice point there and looks great!
I think we're banned from linking to anything for sale here, but I recently had my floors tiled with some Home Depot tile and it was porcelain. The stuff was so hard that we had to cut it with a saw - it wouldn't follow a wheel type tile cutter line. Anyway, there is a glaze on the tile that removes easily and it knaps well - look for "Montagna Dapple Gray Porcelain Floor and Wall Tile." It's a 6" X 24" plank tile and cost the whopping sum of $2.39 ea AND you can buy them individually. I think any color in this tile series would be the same. It is indeed porcelain and will not absorb water - so it is well vitrified in the mfg. process, which makes for good chippin'.
Interesting....I have found the darker the Porcelain the better it knaps. I also found that by throwing it in a oven for about 4 hours @400 it tends to knap a bit better. I can't figure out why as they are cooked at 2100 degrees or hotter, yet I did notice a difference....any clue as to why?? I assumed it was moisture from the back side, and removing it with heat helped. Maybe it's just in my mind? :)
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I am going to have to take a look next time I am in the store. I didn't know they had tiles that were not glazed. What size are the tiles?
This was glazed... :)
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Dalton Knapper; not banned from talking about just don't post a link to it. Anyway, there are no rock sellers as Sponsors in the Magazine I know of.