Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: gstoneberg on June 03, 2012, 09:00:14 pm
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This is Leslie's idea, but I had such an excellent candidate I had to run with it. Check this out...
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7217/7331190188_9411e2e887_z.jpg)
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8155/7331191238_72cd092cbc_z.jpg)
I've been mourning this goof for awhile. I'll eventually shorten it to the step and then try to knock it off with a flute or 2.
Anyone else?
George
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That's a real dandy George!
Tracy
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Step of the month? Heck, I think you have the stack of the year. I bet I can do better, just give me a chance. Tower
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The only way to solve this issue with knappin is to use a 12 step method
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I bet I can do it in 16 steps!
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I'm sure I've had 12 steps in the last week or 2. Does that mean I'm cured??
I did go out and finish this point after taking that depressing picture. Really tough stone. The issue was a little island of concrete. I must've whacked it 10 times as hard as I could on the base with indirect percussion to try and flute it and it never broke. Weird. It isn't as thin at the back as I'd hoped, but the front 2/3 of the point are as thin as I've ever done using the bopper.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7243/7332307234_2822e42768_z.jpg)
This is the side that had the step/stack,
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7071/7332311020_cbca8f2583_z.jpg)
and the other side.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7077/7332314582_6370df3581_z.jpg)
At nearly 200gr it'll probably end up a little neck knife.
George
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Nice save there, George! I had to change my picture...
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That's a super point 8)
Cipriano
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Beautiful point. Great job on getting rid of the step. I've got a nice piece of Georgetown waiting for me with a similar step and I don't have the concrete excuse, just poor knapping. Thanks for posting, it gives me hope.
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Yes Sir!
Very Nicely Done George!
The progression of your Knapping improvement is obvious from here... :)
-gus
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Very nice finish! Good looking point
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Excellent job George!!! Your step was quite impressive ;D I do have to say after seeing the finished point I was even more impressed ;) Great job!!!
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Oh yeah! That looks like some of that good ole toughern'nails tx crap, haha. Hard to do anything with without a lot of heat but you tamed her right down George.. Getting out from under a stack like that is an art form of it's own...
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Well thank you all, doesn't seem like that good a point to me, still has some steps in it. I had to shorten it most of the way into that step as I could not get a flake to run through it. I didn't even try to notch it since the concrete is still in the way on one side. I noticed the concrete is really obvious under the fluorescent lighting here at work so I snapped another pic, actually of the back side where it's more noticeable. It's really too bad I couldn't have run flakes through it, it would have been my best blade so far. O well.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7229/7335330878_42d77e5ee2_z.jpg)
Patrick, I just watched your new notching video. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have lots of new things to try now. :)
George
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Looks good George. That point looks like it could punch through bone.
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very nice. i think thats the best work youve done considering the troubles you had with it. excellent save
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Very nice indeed! You certainly have reason to admire that point!
To quote a carpenter friend of mine, "That's from clean livin!"
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Thank you guys. I suspect dumb luck had as much to do with it as clean livin but I like the thought.
George