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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => ABO => Topic started by: iowabow on September 29, 2015, 08:37:06 am

Title: ABO punching out morning points
Post by: iowabow on September 29, 2015, 08:37:06 am

I have about a hundred of these to make so every morning I am punching points. Here are today and yesterday's points.

Title: Re: ABO punching out morning points
Post by: soy on September 29, 2015, 08:46:00 am

Nice job!

Title: Re: ABO punching out morning points
Post by: Chippintuff on September 29, 2015, 11:55:55 am

Those do look nice. Be careful or big orders can dampen a person's drive to knap.

WA

Title: Re: ABO punching out morning points
Post by: PeteDavis on September 29, 2015, 12:47:29 pm

Please show your billet and punches.

PD

Title: Re: ABO punching out morning points
Post by: Stringman on September 29, 2015, 01:07:08 pm

I'm guessing this is gonna be for another of your incredible art exhibits?!?

And I wouldn't worry about John's drive. The energizer got nothin on this cat!  :o

Title: Re: ABO punching out morning points
Post by: 1442 on September 29, 2015, 03:06:31 pm

wow, a hunert points.
Gonna be a hunert good looking points from what I see.
I'd like to see your punches and billet too.

Title: Re: ABO punching out morning points
Post by: turbo on September 29, 2015, 05:51:56 pm

Quote from: 1442 on September 29, 2015, 03:06:31 pm

wow, a hunert points.
Gonna be a hunert good looking points from what I see.
I'd like to see your punches and billet too.

+3, I need to make some notching punches and would like to see.

Title: Re: ABO punching out morning points
Post by: Tracker0721 on September 29, 2015, 06:29:55 pm

You supplying a primitive army?!

Title: Re: ABO punching out morning points
Post by: iowabow on September 29, 2015, 08:33:39 pm

Thank you Scott that means a lot.

I have been making flake points every morning and night so only two tools are being used for the most part. The ishi stick and ulna bone. I now use two different kinds, a large deer ulna and a smaller one. The larger for starting the notch and smaller for finishing. If I need to remove some larger part I now Hammer stone it with a steep platform prep. The antler is only used for reduction during bifacing and preforming.

Title: Re: ABO punching out morning points
Post by: iowabow on September 29, 2015, 08:37:22 pm

Quote from: Tracker0721 on September 29, 2015, 06:29:55 pm

You supplying a primitive army?!

I am building a museum display for a diorama

Title: Re: ABO punching out morning points
Post by: bowandarrow473 on September 29, 2015, 09:15:22 pm

Cool, very nice points.

Title: Re: ABO punching out morning points
Post by: mullet on September 29, 2015, 09:53:37 pm

Dang! Nobody can say you don't have ambition, drive, and a heck of a lot of talent, my friend. Can't wait to see what a hundred points look like.

Title: Re: ABO punching out morning points
Post by: iowabow on September 30, 2015, 08:57:48 am

This morning I managed two that I will include in a larger photo tomorrow. The process is about 10 to 15 minutes now.

Title: Re: ABO punching out morning points
Post by: Knapper on September 30, 2015, 11:59:41 am

Very skillfully made. Awesome work as always
Knapper

Title: Re: ABO punching out morning points
Post by: StevenT on October 01, 2015, 09:46:27 am

I admire the simplicity and authenticity of your tools. Somewhere off in the happy hunting grounds there are a lot of spirits with smiles on their faces watching you craft those points. And a great job of crafting at that!