I was going for a perdiz shape so I wanted both notches to be deeper with longer barbs and a longer tang. But, the point is a little thick (as always) so I was using the ishi stick to punch the notches deeper. I didn't do a good enough job preparing a platform and crushed the edge in there so it was pretty much flat from top to bottom. I knew there was pretty good risk of breaking off one or both ears at that point as hard as I was gonna have to hit the punch so I took the easy way out and called the point done. If I were practiced up I would have tried nibbling along the edges of the notch and maybe could have gotten it going again. However, I really wanted to end the time out there with a point so I quit. I hope that made sense. For me, it seems like I can work around a few bad hits on the main part of the point, but when it comes to notching (especially corner notching), I have to be pretty much spot on to get what I want. Very hard to recover from a bad attempt in a notch.
George
