BREAKIN GLASS...

[Otoe Bow]

Very, very nice.  How wide a piece do you have to start with to get them that thin.  My problems on glass and porcelain (anything that's flat with no high spots to follow) is I tend to create some wicked hinge fractures that it takes forever to work out.  You seem to have it down though. 

Otoe

[Pat B]

Very nice points Mike. I would hunt with any of them.    Pat

[hawkbow]

I take a whole side at a time, then abrade... forever ...and take the other side.. abrade  abrade abrade and start over ... I use my ishi stick and really concentrate on each flake before working it i got lucky and had good runs right to the center from both sides... with lots of time spent on the edges .. but they are gettin better...  if i just take my time and be certain to abrade......I have been knapping for twenty years ... but never made a truly nice looking point until I met Wolf Watcher.. he was kind enough to teach me what i have been doing wrong all those years.... and really helped make knapping enjoyable again for me ... anyhow thanks for all the kind words guys..... we all hope that our work is OK .. nice to hear good things from so many talented rock breakers..  Mike A/ho   

[Marc St Louis]

That's better than I can do

[lowell]

Very nice points!!

 I just started trying to knapp in the past 2 weeks and I didn't think you had just started.... or at least I had hoped you hadn't just started!!!!

 Guess I have get some years of experience to start getting ones close to yours.

[Wolf Watcher]

I haven't found anything that Hawk is not good at.  Working 1/2" material down to the size he did is a hard thing to do.  I like the flat side of old milk of magnesia bottles as it only takes a couple of passes to have a shootable point.  Trying to make points out of glass bottoms is difficult as one side is almost always concave and requires some preparation.  We must be crazy as everything we find looks like a potential point.  Watcher

[hawkbow]

Watcher, you should post some pics of your points for these guys to drool over... ... Hawk..A/ho

[cowboy]

Here's a few I've made. Just wanted to learn to make an authentic looking point in the beginning (that was my goal), really had no reason other than to hold it and look at it . Then one thing led to another - lotta fun!

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[hawkbow]

HOLY COW.. don't you work, looks like you spend all your time Knappin, lol... great work bro.. i know who to call when i run low on arrows.. those would fit nicely into my quiver... .. you truly have a gift with rock breakin.... thanks for sharing brother ... Mike A?ho

[Wolf Watcher]

Cowboy:  beautiful craftmanship.   What is the material in the other knife besides the obsidian blade?  You can come for a visit anytime!!  Watcher

[cowboy]

Thanks guys - yes unfortunantly seems like I'm always at work. Sometimes I can sneak away and do fun stuff though. My wife would tell you I'm possesed, I might tell you I have a passion . That lower knife is made of novaculite I bought in MO, all that other is the Pedernales stuff I pick up around San Antonio..

[nugget]

Real nice stuff guys. I just started knapping late last year. I Have been inspired by your creations.
Thanks

[D. Tiller]

Dang! Cowboy your getting better and better all the time. I seem to just be making lots of flakes!

Obsidian on its way by monday! Found some super hard mixture of lace like with streeks of gold sheen in it. Should make some nice points! I will add some of that to the booty. By the way how long do you want the spalls?

[cowboy]

Thanks David! That sounds like a pretty wild mix of stuff your sending, if it's spalls they can be anywhere from two inches and longer. Hey, you don't know how much I appreciate it .

[david w.]

WOw thats all i can say wow

you are some talented people i hope i can do that someday