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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: snakeman on September 19, 2011, 10:15:17 pm

Title: new knife blades (added pics of them hafted) added sheaths
Post by: snakeman on September 19, 2011, 10:15:17 pm

A bunch of neck knife blades I made this weekend out of buffalo river,coral and texas,not sure what kind of texas.The texas had to be heat treated,it was really tough before.I'm gonna haft them to some antler tines.



(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c120/deftones3333/IMAG0544.jpg)

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Post by: beetlebailey1977 on September 19, 2011, 10:50:14 pm

Those are some fine looking blades... ;)

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Post by: bowtarist on September 20, 2011, 01:11:31 am

 :o WOW, those are some of my favorites.  Please post once hafted.  Sweet blades.

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Post by: GooseGossett on September 20, 2011, 01:39:48 am

Love the look of those flake scars.  Slick work.

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Post by: Will H on September 20, 2011, 10:13:13 am

Nice!!  :o I love blades!! Great work man!

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Post by: blackhawk on September 20, 2011, 10:18:10 am

A couple phrases come to mind......

"Picture perfect".....and

"Cookie cutter cut outs".... ;)

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Post by: Josh on September 20, 2011, 12:12:15 pm

nice work Erik.   We might need to go on another pine sap run after ya put these together!   :)

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Post by: cowboy on September 20, 2011, 02:34:56 pm

Those are some nice looking blades - i like that style! I've been wanting to do some knives but haven't had a chance to sit down and knap :(.

Title: Re: new knife blades (added pics of them hafted)
Post by: snakeman on September 23, 2011, 09:30:27 pm

Thanks for all your replies,I got some of them hafted and then I ran out of antler tines.Now I have to make sheaths for all of them.






(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c120/deftones3333/IMAG0548.jpg)

(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c120/deftones3333/IMAG0549.jpg)

Title: Re: new knife blades (added pics of them hafted)
Post by: Josh on September 23, 2011, 10:07:19 pm

awesome! ....is it time to stitch together the sheaths yet? :)

Title: Re: new knife blades (added pics of them hafted)
Post by: Bill Skinner on September 23, 2011, 10:22:42 pm

Eric, those are some beautiful knives.  They look to be the perfect size to carry on your quiver or make into neck knives.  Bill

Title: Re: new knife blades (added pics of them hafted)
Post by: snakeman on September 23, 2011, 10:48:27 pm

Hey bill,the one on the bottom left is a piece of that tennessee chert you gave me at one of the astb shoots last year,or may have been year before last.I heat treated some of it and it made it knap alot better.

Title: Re: new knife blades (added pics of them hafted)
Post by: Josh on September 24, 2011, 02:17:16 am

Well... it took a couple of hours but we finally finished the sheaths for all of them.  We finished them pretty quickly I think we made all 5 in under 2 hours... I think they turned out pretty nice myself.  :)

(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c120/deftones3333/IMAG0551.jpg)

(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c120/deftones3333/IMAG0552.jpg)

(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c120/deftones3333/IMAG0553.jpg)

Title: Re: new knife blades (added pics of them hafted) added sheaths
Post by: bowtarist on September 24, 2011, 03:56:00 am

AWESOME JOB!!  you get all that braiding done in 2 hrs too? 

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Post by: Josh on September 24, 2011, 02:05:09 pm

not braiding... reverse twisting like how you make a bow string... it's faster and looks better to me with this suede lace. :) 

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Post by: jamie on September 25, 2011, 07:23:46 am

great work!!!

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Post by: cowboy on September 25, 2011, 08:28:08 am

Those turned out nice guys. Look great :).

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Post by: Bill Skinner on September 26, 2011, 08:07:34 pm

That is some great work!  Bill

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Post by: GregB on September 27, 2011, 09:51:30 am

Very nice work!

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Post by: soy on October 01, 2011, 01:52:00 am

Great work from beginning to end ;)