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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Jaeger on July 12, 2009, 04:37:20 pm

Title: billets
Post by: Jaeger on July 12, 2009, 04:37:20 pm

I have saw billets out of antler and copper and wood ,I wanted  to know if a brass billet will work?

Title: Re: billets
Post by: piper on July 12, 2009, 07:32:11 pm

most any thing will work  But some thing work better..Like Copper...... Brass works good for sparling.

  Curt

Title: Re: billets
Post by: billy on July 12, 2009, 11:42:34 pm

yeah, I think brass works just fine.  It's a bit harder than copper, but it should work, although I've never tried it.  I have seen brass hammers and billets in other people's toolkits though.

Title: Re: billets
Post by: Hillbilly on July 13, 2009, 07:31:29 am

I've used a big chunk of brass to spall before, but it's too hard and slick to make a good billet for general knapping.