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Offline Outbackbob48

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ceramic floor tile blade
« on: September 08, 2011, 11:21:23 am »
I was cleaning my garage an ran across a left over pc of floor tile that was broke. Gave it a try an surprized my self. This would be great material for begineers, had a lot of problems of harder more expesive flints an cherts, The finish side is slightly concaved an the glue side has plenty of ridges to get past. I made this point with mostly percussion an just alittle hand flaker touchup, I left the finish or cortex on just for show ;D. This blade is 4" long an 1 1/4 wide an little thicker than I like. So if anyone is just starting here is a cheap an challening enough way to get started. Feel free to comment an thanks for lookin.   Bob
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Offline jamie

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Re: ceramic floor tile blade
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2011, 11:44:21 am »
nice looking stuff too. i tried some small pieces at a job site the other day and it was crap. great work bob
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Re: ceramic floor tile blade
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2011, 11:52:03 am »
Wow Bob...that's sweeeet. U gonna show me how to do that too..lol :laugh:

Do u remember the exact type or brand/who made em. Maybe that's the key seeing how jamies was crap. Or maybe its just a crapshoot. Some good some bad. Like a box of crackerjacks,ya never know what you'll find inside.

I might have to try this instead of turning all my nice rock into rubble.
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Offline cowboy

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Re: ceramic floor tile blade
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2011, 12:01:55 pm »
Good one Bob! I've been wondering about that tile. Figured it'd be about the same as johnstone. May try a peice one day just for S&G's :).
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Offline Outbackbob48

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Re: ceramic floor tile blade
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2011, 01:09:58 pm »
Chris, not sure of the brand or type of tile, I have  some left over from when I tiled my foyer, I know it was called primitive tile an I believe it was hand fired. I,ll check with my brother in law who got the tile for me a few years ago. When you come up I,ll give ya a few to hit. Paul , it worked better than any Johnnystone that I ever tried but i really never hit much of it.
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Offline Jimbob

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Re: ceramic floor tile blade
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2011, 07:23:25 pm »
Nice!
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Offline bowtarist

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Re: ceramic floor tile blade
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2011, 08:11:27 pm »
Sweet!!  I've got some tile, when I get home tonight, 10p., I'm gonna give it a try.
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Re: ceramic floor tile blade
« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2011, 08:42:15 pm »
Sounds good Bob...ill bring up up my rock too. And I wanna see ya make something outta that flint ridge. Its pretty stuff.  ;)
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Offline MWirwicki

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Re: ceramic floor tile blade
« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2011, 10:35:36 pm »
Bob:  Now that's really cool!  You knapper guys make me sick.  Such talent, skill.  I guess that I spend too much time on the bows.  Then again, there were bow makers and there were arrow makers.  Gonna have to start tradin' or something.  Again, just plain cool...
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Offline soy

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Re: ceramic floor tile blade
« Reply #9 on: September 09, 2011, 03:30:01 am »
Not a knapper myself,but I may have to pop a few tiles out of the floor when I get home and give it a try! Way to use the resources at hand
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Offline bushman

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Re: ceramic floor tile blade
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2011, 05:54:03 pm »
Very nice blade Outbackbob48. I just made a post the other day asking if you can knapp tiles. I have been trying different things on a few small pieces of porcelain tile but I haven’t gotten very far at it. When I tried to turn the edge with percussion I keep snapping them, so I turned the edge with pressure and brought it to one face and then used percussion that seemed to help but I keep getting steps, think its because I’m trying to drive the flakes too far into the flat faces. How did you go about making that blade? Also I can only see your last two pictures, the other ones will only load about 1/4 inch of the picture then stop, never had it happen before to any other pictures that people have posted. Could you maybe try to repost them because I would really like to see them? Thanks
Bushman
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