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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: yazoo on February 05, 2010, 05:38:38 pm

Title: dogwood billets
Post by: yazoo on February 05, 2010, 05:38:38 pm

anybody here use dogwood billets, and could you show me a photo?

Title: Re: dogwood billets
Post by: DanaM on February 05, 2010, 07:33:20 pm

Hillbilly and james parker use em and I have some but I mostly just beat the hell out of my leg with em :P
Sorry Mike no pics.

Title: Re: dogwood billets
Post by: mullet on February 05, 2010, 07:41:11 pm

 Yea, what Dana said. Mike, they just look like short baseball bats.About as long as your forearm.

Title: Re: dogwood billets
Post by: jamie on February 06, 2010, 10:59:55 am

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/coyotebow/shoots/nepsg09/010.jpg)

Title: Re: dogwood billets
Post by: yazoo on February 06, 2010, 01:43:33 pm

how does the dogwood compare to horn?

Title: Re: dogwood billets
Post by: leapingbare on February 06, 2010, 08:53:03 pm

its softer and has a much slower flake release.
 If you want to make one use the part thats underground for your whacking end.

Title: Re: dogwood billets
Post by: Hillbilly on February 07, 2010, 12:12:28 pm

Yazoo, I just use wood for really tough material like quartzite, rhyolite, silicious limestone, or really raw tough nasty chert, for the reasons that Jesse just mentioned-it lets you get bigger, cleaner flakes because of slower flake initiation. I like antler better for good rock.