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Offline jamie

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all hammerstone agate basin
« on: March 27, 2011, 07:28:07 pm »
no edge work has been done obviously. i will break out the punches tomorrow and see if i can thin it some more. currently stands at 7 1/4" long,  2" wide, 7/16" thick. more than happy with what i have but the joy in knapping is pushing the limits!!  ;D was very pleased too with the amount of overshot flaking i got with the hammerstone.





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Re: all hammerstone agate basin
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2011, 07:44:21 pm »
That's awesome. I'd love to see some videos of some more hammerstone work from somebody. Jamie, in the other thread you mentioned maybe youtubing your projects. How about some on some tough material that you guys have up there?
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Re: all hammerstone agate basin
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2011, 07:48:25 pm »
as soon as i get some more of the normanskill i will. maybe i'll play around with some of the rhyolite spalls i knocked out first. i gotta get my daughters video camera first. she knows how to edit and use photoshop to hide all the step fractures and glue lines  ;D
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« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2011, 08:48:43 pm »
That is nice work.
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Re: all hammerstone agate basin
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2011, 01:48:05 am »
Very nice, jamie what's the material? Kinda looks like some material we have here in Texas.
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Re: all hammerstone agate basin
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2011, 07:05:19 am »
rootbeer  ;D
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Re: all hammerstone agate basin
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2011, 09:59:13 am »
Nice work Jamie!
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Re: all hammerstone agate basin
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2011, 11:05:51 am »
Beautiful work jamie,always impressed with you hammer stone work. :) :)
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Re: all hammerstone agate basin
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2011, 12:20:19 pm »
thanks guys. got a hell of a surprise this morning. driving around with my 5 yr old and i heard tink, tink tink coming from the back seat. i asked him what he was hitting. he says, "im flint knapping , just like you" . looked back and he's got this basin blade in one hand, a hammerstone in his other, just choppin away at the edge!!! after i temporarily freaked out and made sure he wasnt covered in flint and blood  i laughed my tail off, said nice work but we cant flintknap while we are driving. blade is still together just lost some width.  ;D
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Re: all hammerstone agate basin
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2011, 12:40:04 pm »
OUCH!  I know the feeling when the kids start doing something a little dangerous.  And to top it off your point was the victim!  Good thing it's still in one piece.   ;D
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Re: all hammerstone agate basin
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2011, 01:10:01 am »
Very nice looking hunk of rootbeer there Jamie! Man! I need some time in the pit!
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Re: all hammerstone agate basin
« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2011, 01:41:51 am »
I don't need no 5 yr old to help me loose wide on my points Jamie! :D
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Re: all hammerstone agate basin
« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2011, 09:03:15 pm »
this is what i got after my 5 yr old beat the crap out of it.  ;D no more agate basin. just a knife. finished it off alternating between antler tine and antler punch. 7" long , 1 1/4" wide and 1/4" thick



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Re: all hammerstone agate basin
« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2011, 11:16:48 pm »
Ain't nothing wrong with that Jamie! Man, that's some knarly looking concrete in that thing. A little heat would do wonders for it :).
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Re: all hammerstone agate basin
« Reply #14 on: March 30, 2011, 09:02:56 am »
im too impatient to heat the rock. i just push harder and hope it goes through the concrete.  ;D
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