Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => ABO => Topic started by: GlisGlis on November 10, 2015, 01:14:32 pm
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Hello folks
It's quite a bit I started to shyly trying flintknapping.
I use mainly glass and started with copper tools pressure
Lately I'm making a sort of abo conversion using hammerstone but i clearly lack precision
Is that a silly idea to fix a smaller hammerstone on a wood handle to try to accomplish greater precision?
It has that allready been done?
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it could work. Think of it like this. Hammer something with a long handled hammer, held at the very bottom of the handle, now do it holding it next to the head. For me shorter is more precise. Just my 2 cents
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Hello folks
It's quite a bit I started to shyly trying flintknapping.
I use mainly glass and started with copper tools pressure
Lately I'm making a sort of abo conversion using hammerstone but i clearly lack precision
Is that a silly idea to fix a smaller hammerstone on a wood handle to try to accomplish greater precision?
It has that allready been done?
If you want to follow in the path of Native American knappers, the almost universal description was that they held the biface in a small piece of leather, in the left hand. And, they struck downwards, on the edge, with a hammerstone held in the right hand.
It sounds simple. But, it actually involves many subtle sub-skills to master. That being said, I would suggest watching every hammerstone video that you can find, on Youtube. One of the best hammerstone videos I ever saw was of a Mexican obsidian worker. He is super skilled probably because he flintknaps all day long.
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The short answer is I don't know. I have done something similar with antler and have been very happy with the results. Sorry if it is kind of hard to read, but I think most can manage to make out the below text, reprinted in a book from 1919 from an earlier text. The "Roughing out" part below seems to support your idea.
(http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/squirrelacre/1152015first_zps3x4ryerh.jpg) (http://s556.photobucket.com/user/squirrelacre/media/1152015first_zps3x4ryerh.jpg.html)
(http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/squirrelacre/1152015second_zps0lxvzndr.jpg) (http://s556.photobucket.com/user/squirrelacre/media/1152015second_zps0lxvzndr.jpg.html)
Keith
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thankyou very much for your input.
Will try and share my findings
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Full text of the Cushing work cited above at:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/658382?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents