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Offline iowabow

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time to call it a night
« on: February 17, 2012, 02:56:15 am »
Just want to share my good times.   I flat knapped one side and on the other I did a base to center flute then a tip to center.  It is only 6 to 1 but what fun. I did this when I got off work tonight and thought I should call it a night and finish it this weekend. Tower this is some of that flint from Texas.





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Offline TRACY

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Re: time to call it a night
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2012, 08:26:51 am »
The flute worked well!

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Re: time to call it a night
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2012, 09:58:31 am »
That side is flat alright. How does that stone work?
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Re: time to call it a night
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2012, 10:49:33 am »
Nice flute. Now if you could flute the other side and build ya a clovis around it...
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Re: time to call it a night
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2012, 01:44:23 pm »
Tower I love the way this stone works

Cowboy hehe I wish I could but I am only practicing the fluting while making points so that I can understand them better.  On this one I really want to keep driving these sheet flakes off. The thinner the preform the smaller the platform is getting. The challenge now is how to work a flatter surface. I would like to get to 7:1 ratio.

I watched a paleomanjim demo on fluting and learned something that I am using in the flat flaking. He made a point (statement) while preparing the nipple to remove the ground (abraded) surface on each side of the nipple, he did this so the stone could break clean in that area and not rip out the other side. Soooooooo when preparing a platform I make real small pressure flakes to each side where I want the flake to detach. This has made a big difference in the type of flake I get and reduces the digging that can occur when a flake releases. Does that make any sense?

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Offline Tower

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Re: time to call it a night
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2012, 02:40:56 pm »
Makes prefect sense, it works well in percussion thinning.
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Re: time to call it a night
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2012, 03:19:27 pm »
Ok cool then I must be heading down the right path. HMMMMM any tips as well?
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Offline Will H

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Re: time to call it a night
« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2012, 04:01:54 pm »
Lookin good John. Basically what your figuring out is isolated platforms. It really makes all the difference if you wanna get em real thin ;)
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Offline criveraville

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Re: time to call it a night
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2012, 12:22:40 am »
Good work there.. A good nights work

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Re: time to call it a night
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2012, 12:36:36 am »
Man that is Very Cool...

And darned if I didn't understand what you said...
Don't know if I can do it, but I understood it...
And that in itself is something.

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Offline iowabow

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Re: time to call it a night
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2012, 11:19:14 am »
Ok this is getting fun.  I am starting to really build some prdictable and consistant flake removal patterns without steps yet.  I must have been switching too soon to a smaller bopper before.  Also I am really powering into the stone at an angle.  I marked the 5 flakes I took early this morning that create that collateral flaking pattern look. I plan on thinning this till it breaks or it is better than any others. 

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Re: time to call it a night
« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2012, 11:38:16 am »
Here is a native preform my neighbor gave me. 

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Re: time to call it a night
« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2012, 12:18:28 pm »
Ok I am not sure I can do better 6mm thick and 48mm wide is that 8:1?



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Re: time to call it a night
« Reply #13 on: February 18, 2012, 12:29:07 pm »
Maybe I could shoot a few flakes from the base and thin the center but I am going to set it aside and work on another and try to beat it. You cant see it but I am jumping up and down doing a victory dance.
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Re: time to call it a night
« Reply #14 on: February 18, 2012, 02:02:07 pm »
I like that profile! Great job!
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