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Offline gstoneberg

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Step of the Month
« on: June 03, 2012, 09:00:14 pm »
This is Leslie's idea, but I had such an excellent candidate I had to run with it.  Check this out...





I've been mourning this goof for awhile.  I'll eventually shorten it to the step and then try to knock it off with a flute or 2.

Anyone else?

George
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Offline TRACY

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Re: Step of the Month
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2012, 09:14:10 pm »
That's a real dandy George!


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Offline Tower

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Re: Step of the Month
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2012, 10:42:43 pm »
Step of the month? Heck, I think you have the stack of the year. I bet I can do better, just give me a chance. Tower
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Offline iowabow

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Re: Step of the Month
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2012, 11:03:38 pm »
The only way to solve this issue with knappin is to use a 12 step method
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Re: Step of the Month
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2012, 11:09:39 pm »
I bet I can do it in 16 steps!
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Offline gstoneberg

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Re: Step of the Month
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2012, 12:13:35 am »
I'm sure I've had 12 steps in the last week or 2.  Does that mean I'm cured??

I did go out and finish this point after taking that depressing picture.  Really tough stone.  The issue was a little island of concrete.  I must've whacked it 10 times as hard as I could on the base with indirect percussion to try and flute it and it never broke.  Weird.  It isn't as thin at the back as I'd hoped, but the front 2/3 of the point are as thin as I've ever done using the bopper.



This is the side that had the step/stack,



and the other side.



At nearly 200gr it'll probably end up a little neck knife.

George
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Offline JackCrafty

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Re: Step of the Month
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2012, 12:29:36 am »
Nice save there, George!  I had to change my picture...
« Last Edit: June 04, 2012, 05:24:26 am by jackcrafty »
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Offline criveraville

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Re: Step of the Month
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2012, 01:46:06 am »
That's a super point  8)

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Offline xin

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Re: Step of the Month
« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2012, 03:32:02 am »
Beautiful point.  Great job on getting rid of the step.  I've got a nice piece of Georgetown waiting for me with a similar step and I don't have the concrete excuse, just poor knapping.  Thanks for posting, it gives me hope.
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Offline Gus

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Re: Step of the Month
« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2012, 03:49:42 am »
Yes Sir!

Very Nicely Done George!

The progression of your Knapping improvement is obvious from here... :)

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Offline TRACY

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Re: Step of the Month
« Reply #10 on: June 04, 2012, 08:57:42 am »
Very nice finish! Good looking point
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Offline chertle

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Re: Step of the Month
« Reply #11 on: June 04, 2012, 09:53:29 am »
Excellent job George!!!  Your step was quite impressive ;D I do have to say after seeing the finished point I was even more impressed ;) Great job!!!
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Re: Step of the Month
« Reply #12 on: June 04, 2012, 10:36:57 am »
Oh yeah! That looks like some of that good ole toughern'nails tx crap, haha. Hard to do anything with without a lot of heat but you tamed her right down George.. Getting out from under a stack like that is an  art form of it's own...
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Offline gstoneberg

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Re: Step of the Month
« Reply #13 on: June 04, 2012, 10:48:53 am »
Well thank you all, doesn't seem like that good a point to me, still has some steps in it.  I had to shorten it most of the way into that step as I could not get a flake to run through it.  I didn't even try to notch it since the concrete is still in the way on one side.  I noticed the concrete is really obvious under the fluorescent lighting here at work so I snapped another pic, actually of the back side where it's more noticeable.  It's really too bad I couldn't have run flakes through it, it would have been my best blade so far.  O well.



Patrick, I just watched your new notching video.  Thank you, thank you, thank you!  I have lots of new things to try now.  :)

George
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Offline Tower

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Re: Step of the Month
« Reply #14 on: June 04, 2012, 11:52:14 am »
Looks good George. That point looks like it could punch through bone.
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