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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: FlintWalker on June 21, 2009, 08:24:16 pm

Title: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: FlintWalker on June 21, 2009, 08:24:16 pm: It seems every time I get a nice big blade started...one little light tap anywhere near the end and it just falls in half >:(
I don't mean a hard lick either, just tipping the edge. Both times it's happened to me today it was on something I could have easily removed with pressure. ??? The first time it happened, I was just holding the piece up in the air. The second time I had the whole length laying on my leg. TINK!...two pieces! I think I'm gonna start sticking some of them Limb Savers on them. You know, those rubber mushrooms them guys stick on compound bow limbs to dampen vibration. ;D
I did manage to get one finished. It's not as big as the other would have been, but I'll do.
I think I'll go mow the yard :-\

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Title: Re: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: PeteDavis on June 21, 2009, 09:09:50 pm: nice snydereeni sir

hornstone or georgetown?
Title: Re: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: FlintWalker on June 21, 2009, 10:09:33 pm: Thanks Pete. It's, I believe what they call "Kentucky Blue". Really just a type of Sonora. It all came from the same place. ;)
If it seems like everything I make is out of Sonora...It's because it is. That's all I have. :-\
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Post by: mullet on June 21, 2009, 10:14:02 pm: Nice Snyder, If you can do the same thing pressure flaking, Why beat on it?It's kinda like when you were a teenager with your first girl. ;D
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Post by: FlintWalker on June 21, 2009, 10:19:02 pm: ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Outbackbob48 on June 21, 2009, 10:31:15 pm: Hey Shannon, Thats a heck of a nice looking snyders. What kind of a hound are ya keep there. Not by chance a sooner hound, sooner eat an lay around on the porch than do anything else.:>} Must have been the weather yesterday, I broke a obsidian blade 3 differnt times on the same point before I finally give it up, broke just the tip off twice an finally broke it in half. Ughhhhhh. Later Bob
Title: Re: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: FlintWalker on June 21, 2009, 10:45:07 pm: Bob, that's "Elmer". He's a Bassett hound. I should have named him "Worthless".
I've got a big red Bloodhound too. His name is "Clifford". They're both worthless, but I love 'em anyway.
Title: Re: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: mullet on June 21, 2009, 10:46:43 pm: I'm like Bob, I made two nice on the shaft points yesterday and broke 3 today.
Title: Re: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: stickbender on June 21, 2009, 11:05:35 pm: Shoot Shannon, I can't even percussion flake, and have yet to make a long blade, by flaking. I have tried, and wound up with a couple of bird points. ;D I have finally made a point bigger than before, but I didn't do all of it. It is a partially flaked piece of glass dinner plate, that Eddie gave me with some stuff in a bucket of rock. I ended up with a about a three inch, from tip to base of stem, and about three inches across from barb to barb. It is a triangular shape. Biggest thing I have mad yet. Man I look at some of these knives and other large points, and just gape. I hope to get some Coastal Plains chert, next week. I am going up to Ga. to visit some Friends. One of them is about a half hour from the Flint River. I hope to be able to fill my truck up with as much as it will hold. I am going out to Montana in July, when I get back from Ga. and I will see if I can find some agate out there. Nice point. Wish I could do that kinda work. :(

Wayne
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Post by: cracker on June 21, 2009, 11:09:42 pm: Nice looking effort Sannon.
Title: Re: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: Timo on June 21, 2009, 11:18:53 pm: Very nice point Shannon. ;)

Support,support bro..... The shock wave travels weird sometimes,I used to end snap lots ,but now I have learned to stop and think....support. I doit with my lil finger under the point and my others fingers over before hitting the ends. helps in most cases.

Buttttttttt,I still snap my share. My fav quote for knapping is..."Some days" ;D
Title: Re: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: cowboy on June 21, 2009, 11:20:35 pm: That's a beautiful point Shannon! They don't always come out he way we plan >:(.

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Title: Re: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: FlintWalker on June 21, 2009, 11:40:47 pm: I guess I'm just paying my dues. :-\ But man is it frustrating!
I figure as long as my rock holds out, I'll keep trying. The positive side of it is that most times I can still get a hunting point out of one, or both halves. ;D That's really all I set out to do anyway...make hunting points.
But after you make one 3" long, you want one 4", then 5" etc, etc. What fun is there in doing something you know you can do.
Maybe I need to go the other way. You know, see how small I can make one. ;D
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Post by: mullet on June 21, 2009, 11:52:44 pm: "But after one 3" long, you want one 4" Then 5", etc., etc. Man, sounds like my wife. Just make some and go hunting. ;D
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Post by: FlintWalker on June 22, 2009, 12:03:29 am: For some reason, I kinda expected that from you ;D
Title: Re: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: mullet on June 22, 2009, 12:06:35 am: Couldn't help it. ;D ;D ;)
Title: Re: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: DanaM on June 22, 2009, 07:16:52 am: Nice Ace of Spades there Shannon :) All I've managed to do is ruin rock lately :'(
Some days it pays to know when to quit eh :P
Title: Re: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: GregB on June 23, 2009, 08:34:57 am: Eddie went there didn't he? ;D
Title: Re: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: Bill Skinner on June 23, 2009, 04:11:44 pm: When you are hitting near the ends, pinch HARD and hold the rock pretty tight with the other three fingers. That helps soak up the shock. If your swing is a little off...
Title: Re: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: Dingleberry on June 24, 2009, 12:15:13 pm: Sweet blade.

Mullet, are you named after the fish or the totally awesome haircut?
Title: Re: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: FlintWalker on June 24, 2009, 08:08:29 pm: He told me it was because he came from a line of mullet fishermen ::) Eddie didn't have a mullet when he was younger, it was an afro ;D
Title: Re: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: Bone pile on June 26, 2009, 08:27:10 pm: ooooooooooooooooooooooooo that's not right
Title: Re: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: El Destructo on June 26, 2009, 09:28:31 pm: He sorta looked like Jermain Jackson............only Whiter........... >:D

You can blame Kathy on this one Eddie................ :P
Title: Re: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: stickbender on June 30, 2009, 08:09:05 pm: El D, you mean he looked like the guy from Alaska that has the painting instruction show on TV ? ;D

Wayne
Title: Re: Dangit! If I had much hair, I'd pull it out!
Post by: El Destructo on June 30, 2009, 09:55:23 pm: even Scarier than that......... :o
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Post by: Hillbilly on June 30, 2009, 10:06:17 pm: I've seen the photographic evidence of Eddie's fro-age (thanks, Kathie!!! ;D ) He looked like a cross between the PBS "happy little tree" painter guy and "welcome back Kotter." Now he's just regular ol' ugly.

Nice Snyders, Shannon, that's a killer. If you'll push the other end into your leg it helps dampen the shock, and don't pinch it between your fingers. Every time I grip one too hard, it winds up bisected instead of bifaced.