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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Zuma on April 10, 2015, 10:23:53 pm

Title: I Love Glass
Post by: Zuma on April 10, 2015, 10:23:53 pm

Thought I would post a menagerie of glass points.
Join in if you have made some.
Zuma

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: Outbackbob48 on April 11, 2015, 12:24:26 am

Hey Zuma, are you going to the classic, I'll bring ya some blue glass if you want some. I have made a few points with glass but not particular crazy about working the stuff, See if I can find a few pics. Bob

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: cowboy on April 11, 2015, 09:59:00 am

thats a lot of glass! hmm, lemme see.. Fenton slag, picture tube, beer bottle?

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: Sasquatch on April 11, 2015, 10:43:58 am

Love the first pic.  Great points. What is that gold

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: bowmo on April 11, 2015, 12:27:06 pm

Nice! Man, a few of those opaque ones could have fooled me into thinking they were stone. Good stuff.

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: Zuma on April 11, 2015, 12:54:29 pm

Nice ones Bob. I like that blue.
Sas, the gold is Fenton.
Bo I have many clear glass I have painted.
here are a few.
Zuma

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: JackCrafty on April 11, 2015, 01:05:31 pm

Here's the first vid in a 5 part series on my latest glass arrowhead... ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PtuOGXxOVM

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: Zuma on April 13, 2015, 11:26:34 am

That's some talent right there Mr. Crafty.
Thanks
Here is one of my favorites.
Zuma

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: soy on April 13, 2015, 09:24:27 pm

Thats cool  ;D

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: lostarrow on April 13, 2015, 09:35:54 pm

Just about the only thing I can knap consistently so far .

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: Bone pile on April 14, 2015, 08:39:27 am

like that glass with wire,wee did you get that? nice glassies

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: jeffp51 on April 14, 2015, 11:28:28 pm

aside from one small obsidian point, I only have glass.  Cheap and plentiful.  I rummage through the recycle bin often.  Son rolls his eyes everytime I come home with more bottles.  They are starting to talk about my alcohol problem. . .

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: flungonin on April 15, 2015, 10:05:07 am

Nice variety of styles you have chosen. Nice looking points

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: Zuma on April 15, 2015, 10:49:18 am

Quote from: flungonin on April 15, 2015, 10:05:07 am

Nice variety of styles you have chosen. Nice looking points

Agreed! I was stone poor for most of my knapping experience as well.

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: jeffp51 on April 15, 2015, 11:31:14 pm

Quote from: Zuma on April 15, 2015, 10:49:18 am

Quote from: flungonin on April 15, 2015, 10:05:07 am

Nice variety of styles you have chosen. Nice looking points

Agreed! I was stone poor for most of my knapping experience as well.

Thanks.  I still end up making the point that my incompetence allows to come out.  Seldom have a style in mind when I start. It feels like my golf game.  Every tenth hit the ball flies off and makes me say "that's why people golf."  Every once in a while I have a flake that travels nicely and I think "that is why people knap."  I have never managed to overshoot a flake yet.

Where do you get the opaque glass?

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: Zuma on April 16, 2015, 08:06:47 pm

I got the Fenton glass years ago in Franklin NC.
They want an arm and leg these days.
Don't worry about overshots until you start reducing large
cobbles. You will learn then. LOL
Some wee ones from "Ben's Challenge".
Zuma

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: Zuma on April 19, 2015, 06:43:39 pm

I made this painted blade years ago.
It was not fluted. I was chicken in those days.
I struck off a flute. I wanted to post it before I
try the other face. ;D ;D
Zuma

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: cowboy on April 19, 2015, 07:32:58 pm

Careful with that one :embarassed:

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: Jodocus on April 25, 2015, 05:49:35 am

I hate glass. But I Rally have to rely on it for practice. I'm very limited in stone supply. The old world has been ruck hunted for a loooooooong time.  ;)

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: Zuma on April 25, 2015, 05:24:49 pm

Just keep that glass out of your lungs and eyes,
I use a fan if the wind ain't blowin the right way.
Zuma
A little fun with this one.
Zuma

Title: Re: I Love Glass
Post by: Zuma on April 29, 2015, 12:24:47 am

Got bored enough to pop a small flute off the opposite side.
Decided to repaint also.
Zuma