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Offline jamie

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« on: March 23, 2010, 10:32:19 am »
i picked up some butts of mahogony from a guy on ebay who sells slabs and had put aside the three biggest pieces untill i knew what i wanted to do with them. jesse inspired this one. after removing the rounded butt i had a piece with one knapped side and a flat sawn side and did the rest of the work with pressure and some antler punch work. that spot under my index finger had a fracture in it and i thought for sure it would break before i finished. just shy of ten inches. i gotta hand it to you guys who work with slabs cause i usually ruin them. the side that was cut (pictured)had some serious issues that i never thought id get clean. the tip on this one was a bear cause i couldnt figure out a good way to support it. dont know how you managed to support that 18" blade jesse. its raining so im gonna clean this one up and see if i can knock out another one.  ;D

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Offline FlintWalker

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Re: pucker factor
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2010, 10:38:08 am »
I'd have had 5 hunting points by the time I finished that one!  Good one ;)
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Offline DanaM

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« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2010, 10:53:37 am »
Cool blade haft that sucker up and go stick it in a bear :)
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« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2010, 10:54:07 am »
thats perty great job
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Re: pucker factor
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2010, 11:04:43 am »
Pucker factor's right - that looks plumb scarry!
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Re: pucker factor
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2010, 11:06:20 am »
Very nice work jamie.That is a beauty. :)
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Offline Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive

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Re: pucker factor
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2010, 11:08:21 am »
yup thats a sweet one. cant figure how you guys arent breaking these long ones
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Re: pucker factor
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2010, 02:21:30 pm »
Nice work!  I like it!  :)
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Re: pucker factor
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2010, 02:23:48 pm »
Nice chippin', Jamie. That's a wicked looking blade.
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Offline sailordad

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Re: pucker factor
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2010, 08:01:19 pm »
Jaime, that thing is incredible
i was going for an 8" er over the weekend,ended up with multiple busted slabs
oh well they will still make points  ;D

and whos says knapping slabs aint real knapping
they present a whole new set of issues to get thru and still have a long blade left
great work
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Re: pucker factor
« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2010, 08:09:23 pm »
WAY TO GO Jamie!!
 Thats a kicking blade. very impressive!
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Re: pucker factor
« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2010, 10:21:45 pm »
thanks guys. tim it definetly is a different challenge working with the flat surface. biggest thing when i was cleaning up the flat side of this thing was knowing i could run a flake all the way across if it was lenticular but making myself slow down and run shorter flakes so i didnt build up a stack.
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Re: pucker factor
« Reply #12 on: March 23, 2010, 10:51:41 pm »
Nice work that is a long blade.  Don't let Butterfingers Magillicuddy handle that one. ;)
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« Reply #13 on: March 23, 2010, 11:03:31 pm »
 Nice blade, Jamie. aren't slabs fun? I worked on a long blade at the first Classic I went to. Hillbilly called it the lawnmower blade. I put it away till I got home for the clean-up work. I went out a day later to finish it and my cat had jumped on it and 3 blades. :'(
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Re: pucker factor
« Reply #14 on: March 23, 2010, 11:04:25 pm »
Wicked good!
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