Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: GooseGossett on July 29, 2011, 09:54:47 pm
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Question first. What is the best way you have found attacking a 90 degree angle to create a platform? An angle like this => [
I started keeping my wrists rigid and flexing my new ishi stick and boy does that make a difference! I added a picture of one of my pressure flakes that went all the way across. I think I made something that could at least fit in an arrow shaft and broke 2 others. It's a step in the right direction and I'll tell you that correct form and angle made the world of difference. Also, obsidian is like butter compared to the stuff I was working.
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Your really comming along. But I have a question . Are you trying to pressure flake the points in your pics? They still have some meat to them.
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Your first point broke because you put enough pressure on it to cause it to flex. I suspect it was too steep an angle. Some times, you have to "nibble" those thick spots down until you get the right angles to run a long flake. You want to push almost straight in, parallel to the width on the point.
I also agree with Tower, you are moving into pressure flaking a little too soon, you needed to whack a couple of those preforms a couple of times to get the high spots off.
Your second point looks pretty good, keep after it, you are starting to get the hang of it. Bill
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Tower: I am trying to pressure flake some of the mass off. That one was a bit thicker cause I was left with just a bit of width as I was mashing away with the bopper. (I need to get way more accurate with the bopper)
Bill: The one I broke I was able to thin quite a bit but was left with a steppe and I think I did try to take too much of a chunk with a steep angle. Most likely rushed that one. Good info on the nibble.
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Steady on Goose,you are improving.
There are a few good knappins coming up later this year. A small one in Joplin around the 19th of August, then there is the bodark primitive skills camp in Sept, then the Osage knappin in the same month I think? It's in Bonneville. Try to make one if you can, the more you are around other chippers the more knowledge you will acquire.
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Timo or anyone for that matter... where would I find that info on the Joplin knappin? Joplin is close to me and definitely doable. The others most likely conflict with the start of school events happening in the church.
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Sent you a pm Goose.