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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: 1442 on October 26, 2016, 02:34:41 am

Title: some recent stuff I've chipped
Post by: 1442 on October 26, 2016, 02:34:41 am

Here's a few things I've made the last two months or so

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Post by: 1442 on October 26, 2016, 02:37:07 am

more

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Post by: 1442 on October 26, 2016, 02:42:24 am

and more

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Post by: GlisGlis on October 26, 2016, 05:10:05 am

great talent there !

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Post by: selfbow joe on October 26, 2016, 06:52:06 am

Looks pretty good

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Post by: ---GUTSHOT---> on October 26, 2016, 07:48:31 am

Very nice. Those fish hooks looks like they would be hard to make!

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Post by: Orrum on October 26, 2016, 10:05:51 am

X2 that's true talent!

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Post by: Tracker0721 on October 26, 2016, 10:57:54 am

Great stuff! Your fish hooks are crazy good. Soon you'll be selling to basspro once they see em haha. Really like those first couple points too. Really nice and flat.

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Post by: Parnell on October 26, 2016, 01:23:54 pm

Great stuff!

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Post by: jayman448 on October 26, 2016, 01:26:38 pm

So cool. I love those hooks. I have to ask tho, were knapped fishhooks actually used historically or is that a modern rendition?

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Post by: Trapper Rob on October 26, 2016, 02:20:17 pm

You do some nice work.

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Post by: 1442 on October 26, 2016, 03:03:54 pm

Thanks Y'all
Fish hooks are really easy to make actually. A flat flake the thickness of the desired shank diameter requires no thinning practically and most all flakes are really short and steep and don't take much force to detach.

Tracker I wish

Jayman
Stone fish hooks are very controversial among archiologists and collectors.
The Spanish explorer Desoto noted that one way the Caddo Indians fished was with a main line strung across the water with staging strings hanging down to hooks. He didn't say what the hooks was made of though.
Then there was two or three Bozo's from Europe or somewhere over there that faked artifacts and hooks was one of their specialties sold as artifacts. They sold a lot of them.
I think if them guys was smart enough to make hooks, and even I can make hooks easily that will catch fish as big as you want to catch, and they are way stronger and usuable than they appear to be and can be made from small thin flakes. Native americans could have done it and I think they did because it is a simple concept that is easy to do and works very well for catching fish.

I know where there is a blog by an archy in TN that did some writing about stone hooks. Tonight I will find it and see if I can get a disabled link up here for anyone interested to read. It's very informative about stone hooks

Title: Re: some recent stuff I've chipped
Post by: YosemiteBen on October 30, 2016, 01:51:28 am

Damn - you been busy! Looks good!