Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: FlintWalker on December 04, 2009, 03:13:00 am
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I posted this blade the other day and thought I'd show some pictures of the finished knife.
The handle is maple, wrapped with black waxed linen. Set in the end of the handle, is a marble I also made from flint river. Just to add a little flash, I wrapped a band of silver wire around each end.
This is going out as my gift for the Christmas trade this year. The recipient doesn't know about it, but I hope he likes it. I'll make a stand for it before I ship it out.
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Beautiful work,that is to cool. :)
Pappy
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Dang Shannon that sure is sweet looking and quite unique with the marble, yer the only person I've ever heard of that makes marbles :)
I know some that have lost their marbles though :D
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Jesse, that really is very nice. The marble really sets it off. By the way, I think I'm losing my marbles so you might send me a few if you have any extra.
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Sahnnon:
Now that is nice.
How do you make marbles?
David
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great job dude
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I knap 'em David ;D
::) ;D
I'll tell yaw later. ;)
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Fantastic job---some lucky dude will get a great xmas gift.
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I like it.. You are one gifted individual..
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I said that blade deserved a good handle..... Dang if you didn't come up with something special. That is one great looking dagger!
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SWEET!
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so simple but so AWESOME
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That's one stone knife that really makes sense:)
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please say you shipped it to minnesota, please say you shipped it to minnesota ::)
That is awesome, for someone who is barely learning to knap, i am truely inspired.
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Oh man! that turned out so cool! the marble is a real cool tuch.
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I like it! I know it wasn't me you picked. :( How do you make those marbles?
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I'm sorry, but it won't go to Minnesota. :-X
Eddie, I was a marble maker long before I ever made a bow.
It's a craft that is passed down in my area from generation to generation among Rolley Hole marble players.
You first pick a piece of good solid flint at least 1" thick and start grinding it into as round of ball as you can. Once you get it as round as you can. You place it in a shallow depression chipped into a Carborundum stone and VERY carefully ease it over against a rubber wheel mounted on a bench grinder. This will start the marble to spin inside the depression and eventually become smooth. If they didn't have any grinders. Some of the old timers would "peck" them out with a file, jack up their car, put it in gear and spin them against the tire :o
Getting one perfectly round takes some practice, but I've made a few hundred that mic'd out perfect. The rock has to have a perfect consistency for that to happen.
You can make a marble from most any rock. But for a good "playing" marble, it takes a different kind of "flint" than we use for knapping. I don't know exactly what kind of rock it is. James Parker called it "man rock" ;D
Agate, Jasper and some of the more translucent flints would make a really pretty marble.
Here's a picture of a few I had laying around. The two big ones, I made for knife handles. The three in the middle are my playing marbles and the two on the right are from rock a couple of old timers gave me years ago.
Maybe sometime if there's enough enterest, I'll do a "make-a-long"
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I'd like to see a marblle make-a-long, when you get the time. That would be quite interesting. It might create one more hobby I won't have time for. Can't have too many!
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I never thought I would say this to a guy but you got some sweet lookin' marbles ;D I will keep a look out for that build along, that does sound like another habit forming idea. I don't think you can ever know how to do to many things for yourself.
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Very cool. You have talent.
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I'd like to see more on this also. I had no idea there was someone around that made marbles. I know it doesn,t have anything to do with bows or knapping, but it does involve flint. And that one looks awesome on the end of the blade. More, more, more......
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Would really appreciate a build along for the marbles. I am old so when I was a kid we played marbles FOR KEEPS! So still have a collection with some old ones and even some from trips to South America. You have talent! Joe
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Would really appreciate a build along for the marbles. I am old so when I was a kid we played marbles FOR KEEPS! So still have a collection with some old ones and even some from trips to South America. You have talent! Joe
is there any other way to play?
we used to go down to the train yard and walk the rails.
we were looking for te ball bearings that would occaisonaly be found along the tracks.they were from the hub of the axle from the box cars.
they were geat for playing marbles with,steel boulders.man when ya hit the others they would scatter >:D
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Tim, playing "for keeps" is a childs game. The kind of marbles we play around here is for everyone. But most of the serious players are older men. We have a National Rolley Hole marble tounament every year at Standing Stone State Park.. Do a yahoo search for "Rolley Hole Marbles" you'll learn more about it. ;)
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I have searched the internet and I cannot find anything on making stone marbles. Lots on glass marbles. Saw, you have to show more! Just a few pics would be nice. Especially the grinding wheel. I'm assuming the shallow depression chipped into a Carborundum stone has to be pretty precise in order for the stone to start spinning. How do you make the depression? and to put it against a spinning rubber wheel.... I have bet you have shot more than one across the room. Needless to say, I'm amazed and still watching for more info.
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Would really appreciate a build along for the marbles. I am old so when I was a kid we played marbles FOR KEEPS! So still have a collection with some old ones and even some from trips to South America. You have talent! Joe
is there any other way to play?
we used to go down to the train yard and walk the rails.
we were looking for te ball bearings that would occaisonaly be found along the tracks.they were from the hub of the axle from the box cars.
they were geat for playing marbles with,steel boulders.man when ya hit the others they would scatter >:D
We used to do the same thing & also use 'em for slingshot ammo.
Jim