Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: sailordad on October 21, 2009, 12:03:46 am
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well as of late i have been on a clovis style point kick
thanks to leapingbears rock and all the pics hes been posting.
i made a couple i posted nad afew i didnt,even made nice one from som goldstone,need to glue that one back together.
it broke in three pieces when i gave it the final whack for the final flute.
well got tired of percussion knaping tonight.
so i threw the bopper back into the bucket.walked over to my storage shelf.
looked thru my last few remaining slabs of material.
i found a piece of moohkite(sp) that i bought at a rock shopway back around march or so.back when i first got bitten by the bug.
i told my self not to touch this slab untill my skills had improved.
well tonight was the night that i decided my skills had progressed enough to do this rock justice.
and i believe i did just that for the rock.
this is some tough stuff,this blade is 5" long end to end,1 1/4" wide,and under 1/4" thick(havent checked with my caliper yet)
lately a blade or point this size i can do in about an hours time,this one took a litle over two hours tonight.
tjhis stuff just seem to want ot be sharp too,dont know if it shows in the pics,but my bloods on that blade.
heres a couple of pics for ya'll,let me know what ya think.
thanks for looking
(http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/7380/1000863xw.jpg)
(http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/7198/1000862f.jpg)
peace,
tim
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VERY well done! I love that stuff. I've only ever had a couple pieces of it and broke one of those. The other, I made Pappy a knife blade from. It gets sharp and is tough enough to stay that way.
That piece there, would get hafted to a handle and used!
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Beautiful blade,very nice. :) Looks like a knife to me. :)
Pappy
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Very nice work Tim :)
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Very nice, Tim. that stuff knaps like obsidean after it's heat treated.
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Wow! You did yourself and that piece of rock justice for sure on that one! Very nice!
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Nice looking blade you have there.like the white line running through it.
Bone pile
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that mookite is some purty stuff. Very nice blade ya made with it!
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Very nice, Mookite sure has some nice color. Bob
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thats beautiful ;D
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thanks for the comments everyone ;D
i gotta say i am proud of the blade,i have just the right piece of blood wood for the handle too
i plan on buying some more slabs of this material,i really like the finished product.even though it is pricey to buy preslabbed.
Mullet: you said heat treating will make it knapp like obsidion. at what temp and how long would i do that at?
the wife donated her old elec roaster for my hobbies ;D,damn good woman. glad i found and kept her(or is it that she kept me)
either way i consider myself lucky.
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That is a perty piece of rock right there! Nice job. ;)
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thats a good un Tim. just from the looks of it i think that rocks been cooked already. i think cooking it changes the color so the rock shop or the place they got it from might have already cooked it.
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no thats the color it was,the guy said it wasnt heat treated
i dont think it was,my shoulders are sore as all get today.
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Naw, it hasn't been cooked, I can tell by the picture. Tim, toaster oven all night at 450dgs. I just stick it in and turn it on. Get up to got to wor nthe mornig and unplug it. Take it out when I get home. It will break a lot easier knapping it though, along those pretty lines between the color change. Be gentle and grind.
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BEAUTIFUL !!!
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awesome! i love mook, are you going to haft it?
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Knapp:
yes i plan on hafting it onto some blood wood,just need to decide on handle design
i ma thinking a dagger style knife
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Dang, boy, maybe I better start trying to make a Clovis, or Folsom, if that is what it makes you do! :o That is Beautiful!!
And Thin!!! Whooo Wheeee, and it is pretty. Holy Moley, that is a nice one! Can't wait to see it hafted. Careful Pappy doesn't sneak up there while you are at work! I understand he is partial to knives......;) ;D Great Job.
Wayne
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its gonna take a whole lot of doing from anyone to get this one away from me
actaully i havent given away any of my stone knives as of yet,but soon
but this one,is a keeper
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very nice work brother... looks like some big medicine in that blade to me.. good on you bro.. Hawk
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well iwas gonna start another thread for this one
but figured it would fit in here instead
after all it is just more eye candy
this was from a slab of AFRICAN QUEEN PICTURE JASPER
i started out with a piece that was about 1"x6"
put too much side pressure on it while pressure flaking and ended up snapping it two seperate times
tis stuff is hard as nails before i had it heat treated,now its almost brittle in various colored areas.
atleast each time it broke,the piece was big enough for an arrow head,so no knife blade for me this time.
this what happens when i try to impose my will instead of listeneing to the rock,oh well its just rock
after i broke the slab enought times,and knew the knife blade idea was out.
i set forth to make a point.
hers what i ended up with
let me know what ya'll think
thanks for looking
(http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/2710/1000869y.jpg)
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You will have to send it to me for closer inspection bro.. ;) ;D looks great cool colors.. Hawk