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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: dmathis992 on February 15, 2015, 07:03:41 pm

Title: newbie home made pressure flaker
Post by: dmathis992 on February 15, 2015, 07:03:41 pm

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I'm new to it but here's my home made pressure flaker

Title: Re: newbie home made pressure flaker
Post by: mullet on February 15, 2015, 07:05:21 pm

Can't see it.

Title: Re: newbie home made pressure flaker
Post by: dmathis992 on February 15, 2015, 07:13:52 pm

Yeah... It won't post I'm on a phone and can't figure it out. Anyway it's a steel pen case that I took all the ink out of drilled the tip wider to slide in my copper wire with a hole on top for a bolt to hold the wire in place and for easy feeding to resharpen. And has a parachord wrap up and down it for over all width and comfort.

Title: Re: newbie home made pressure flaker
Post by: Chippintuff on February 15, 2015, 10:26:33 pm

Dalton, make sure each photo is no more than 250 kb. If necessary, edit them to that size. Then click the "reply" button. Below the text box you will see the option for attaching photos.

WA

Title: Re: newbie home made pressure flaker
Post by: dmathis992 on February 15, 2015, 11:14:42 pm

Ok heh I had to edit it to lower size and find have the option to go to already shot photos so I had to take the edited photo email it to myself and download it haha.

Title: Re: newbie home made pressure flaker
Post by: Tower on February 16, 2015, 09:46:01 am

I'm a little concerned about its durability. Is it made from a zebra pen? 

Title: Re: newbie home made pressure flaker
Post by: dmathis992 on February 16, 2015, 11:15:08 am

No it actually came from one of my art sets pretty hard to bend even with pliers but getting some hickory soon to remake it and shape it to my hand.

Title: Re: newbie home made pressure flaker
Post by: Tower on February 16, 2015, 11:39:45 am

Get a 3/4 oak dowel rod at your local lumber store & use the same design.   It will work perfectly & cheap to build.

Title: Re: newbie home made pressure flaker
Post by: Chippintuff on February 16, 2015, 12:39:17 pm

Here is the one I use most of the time notching. The wood is an oak dowel from the hardware store. The copper cap is the end off a plumbing device used as an air cushion in plumbing water lines. The nail is a horseshoe nail. The dowel and the copper cap are the same size, so I had to trim the dowell down to fit inside the copper. A piece of masking tape keeps it together. This thing is very durable.

Title: Re: newbie home made pressure flaker
Post by: dmathis992 on February 16, 2015, 12:49:25 pm

Sounds good on the oak.

@ chip those are nice I'm gonna try to get some points made today when it stops snowing.

Title: Re: newbie home made pressure flaker
Post by: Chippintuff on February 16, 2015, 01:04:13 pm

You should move to TX. It was 81 degrees at my house Saturday. A front moved in last night, so it was 38 degrees this morning.

WA

Title: Re: newbie home made pressure flaker
Post by: dmathis992 on February 16, 2015, 01:36:14 pm

I'm actually fairly new to missouri.I moved here about 7 months ago from Bakersfield,Ca and actually met a woman from the same area I'm from here and expecting a baby in september. I'm used to 75 year round heh.

Title: Re: newbie home made pressure flaker
Post by: dmathis992 on February 16, 2015, 06:22:14 pm

Well after one week not too bad .Couldn't get the other notch in. Don't have a notcher yet. If you can see what I'm doing wrong any advise would be appreciated.

Title: Re: newbie home made pressure flaker
Post by: dmathis992 on February 16, 2015, 06:30:24 pm

Forgot to add the pic.