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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: nugget on September 07, 2008, 02:55:39 pm

Title: My first knife ...Kinda
Post by: nugget on September 07, 2008, 02:55:39 pm

Here is my first attempt at a stone blade knife. I guess you could call it that?
It is an obsidian point I made that is too big for an arrow, so I made a little shiv out of it. The handle is an old shed antler I found that the rats had gnawed on. I pine pitch to glue it in. The beads are some old 1700's trade beads ,except for the one round wooden bead.
TJ

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Title: Re: My first knife ...Kinda
Post by: huntertrapper on September 07, 2008, 04:33:26 pm

nice.....thats cool...that will be a good game gutter for ya!

Title: Re: My first knife ...Kinda
Post by: Pat B on September 07, 2008, 05:09:57 pm

Looks like a knife to me, TJ. Nice work.  8)    Pat

Title: Re: My first knife ...Kinda
Post by: nugget on September 07, 2008, 05:25:44 pm

Thanks  ;D  been busy all day trying to get some stuff done.

Title: Re: My first knife ...Kinda
Post by: madcrow on September 08, 2008, 04:54:18 pm

Looks like you have been busy.  Looks nice.

Title: Re: My first knife ...Kinda
Post by: mullet on September 08, 2008, 04:56:00 pm

  I like it, TJ. That kilt have pockets?

Title: Re: My first knife ...Kinda
Post by: madcrow on September 08, 2008, 04:59:33 pm

I just hope he don't get mad at me and cut me the next time we are out shooting stumps.

Title: Re: My first knife ...Kinda
Post by: n2everythg on September 08, 2008, 05:13:09 pm

no kinda about it....
nice knife TJ.... really like the teeth marks and the bead work. cool
wade

Title: Re: My first knife ...Kinda
Post by: Otoe Bow on September 09, 2008, 02:27:49 am

Very nice. Good job on the obsidian.  Where'd you get the beads?

Title: Re: My first knife ...Kinda
Post by: Pappy on September 09, 2008, 05:48:00 am

Nice knife,just the right size. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: My first knife ...Kinda
Post by: nugget on September 09, 2008, 07:25:57 am

the beads came from a friend of mine who collects them . he does all the big mountain man rendesvouuz.
Madcrow that is a stabbin knife
Mullet no pockets just my sporran
Thanks guys for the comments
TJ

Title: Re: My first knife ...Kinda
Post by: Hillbilly on September 09, 2008, 09:28:09 am

Looks good, TJ. Nice work!
Oh, and a lot of the old authentic stone knives that are found tend to be about that size and style instead of our usual concept of a big long skinny blade.

Title: Re: My first knife ...Kinda
Post by: nugget on September 09, 2008, 12:08:44 pm

Thanks Hillbilly. I am gonna try and knap out another one with more of a klnife blade shape to it. I have a deer leg bone that is wanting to be a handle.

Title: Re: My first knife ...Kinda
Post by: Otoe Bow on September 09, 2008, 02:12:45 pm

What kind of cordage is that, looks like milkweed maybe?

Title: Re: My first knife ...Kinda
Post by: nugget on September 09, 2008, 02:38:13 pm

Hemp

Title: Re: My first knife ...Kinda
Post by: Hillbilly on September 09, 2008, 09:36:17 pm

Homegrown?  ;D

Title: Re: My first knife ...Kinda
Post by: Justin Snyder on September 09, 2008, 09:40:34 pm

I love the gnawed on handle. It really adds character.  Justin

Title: Re: My first knife ...Kinda
Post by: nugget on September 09, 2008, 11:16:56 pm

If it is homegrown I will never confess to it. ;)