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Offline Outbackbob48

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Early Spring Knapping
« on: March 17, 2010, 09:45:33 am »
What a beautiful spring were having here in Nw Penna. Warm days cool nites turkeys are a talkin robins an red wing blackbirds are back an knappin fever is here . I got a nice corner notch out yesterday while listening to the turkeys gobblin, Thanks for lookin Bob ;D

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Re: Early Spring Knapping
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2010, 12:22:34 pm »
love the looks of mahogany . very few better looking rocks. nice job
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Offline brownhillboy

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Re: Early Spring Knapping
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2010, 12:28:40 pm »
Nice point!  I like the mahogany too.
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Re: Early Spring Knapping
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2010, 01:06:15 pm »
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Re: Early Spring Knapping
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2010, 02:16:25 pm »
Nice one!
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Re: Early Spring Knapping
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2010, 02:45:25 pm »
it looks sorta like a Snyder.. nice point.. i seen some toms strutting on my way in to work this morning.
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Re: Early Spring Knapping
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2010, 10:56:01 pm »
Nice point Bob.  This is the first real spring we have had in a long time.  I saw 7 Toms today.  I love spring. :)
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Re: Early Spring Knapping
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2010, 11:07:19 am »
Nice work,beautiful point. :)
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Offline TRACY

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Re: Early Spring Knapping
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2010, 10:17:03 pm »
Nice looking point Bob! I agree, mahogany sure looks cool.

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Offline billy

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Re: Early Spring Knapping
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2010, 10:24:05 pm »
awesome point!  And you did a great job on those notches.  YEAH!! :)
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Offline Outbackbob48

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Re: Early Spring Knapping
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2010, 09:29:30 am »
Thanks everyone, an Billy I have really been trying to improve my notching,I t was one of my many weak points in Knapping.  ;D  Thanks Bob

Offline StevenT

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Re: Early Spring Knapping
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2010, 10:58:47 am »
Looks like it came right off a Boy Scout Calendar. Nice point.

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Re: Early Spring Knapping
« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2010, 11:39:08 am »
Bob, that looks like another excellent point.

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Re: Early Spring Knapping
« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2010, 04:36:41 pm »
Hey Bob nice point I like mahogany obsidian too I got some good stuff from a guy in penn.  think its called flintknappingspalls.com man is good and reasonable price and ships unbelievably fast. 

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Offline Outbackbob48

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Re: Early Spring Knapping
« Reply #14 on: March 20, 2010, 06:42:19 pm »
Hey Russ was it from Charlie Bracken? His dad is Mark Bracken of flintknappingtools .com, They live maybe 15 miles from me an are nice people to deal with an Mark is a hecka good knapper also. I got quite a bit of material from  Mark over the years and he's helped me at differnt times with some knapping Problems.  Later Bob