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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: crooketarrow on April 23, 2016, 08:56:44 pm

Title: point
Post by: crooketarrow on April 23, 2016, 08:56:44 pm

 I've made about 20 points about 1/2 to 3/4 finished. Today I finished the first one and broke one ofcorse. It was already a broken tip point. It almost made a point twice.

Title: Re: point
Post by: Redhand on April 23, 2016, 09:13:42 pm

Nice point

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Post by: Zuma on April 23, 2016, 09:43:43 pm

Well I would say that's forward progress :)
It's all down hill from here >:D
Zuma

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Post by: Chippintuff on April 23, 2016, 11:06:52 pm

That's just the first of a life time of broken points. I broke two today. It's the ones that survive that make you proud. Hang in there.

WA

Title: Re: point
Post by: iowabow on April 24, 2016, 05:47:42 am

We have all been there ...keep chippin

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Post by: Tracker0721 on April 24, 2016, 11:34:16 am

I need to go break some more stone. Broke 2-3 arrowheads the other day doing stupid stuff like bopping from the end without proper support, thinning the middle before the ends, and using a bopper when it was pressure time. Addicting though.

Title: Re: point
Post by: le0n on April 24, 2016, 01:09:48 pm

Congrats ;)

My favorite mistake is when I'm eyeing my platform locations (rotating the point) and I drop the point on the floor and snap the tip off.

Title: Re: point
Post by: Knapper on April 24, 2016, 06:43:29 pm

Yep. If you aint breakn you aint makn
Knapper
Nice point

Title: Re: point
Post by: Sasquatch on April 25, 2016, 11:39:33 am

So we have all been there.  If you are having trouble breaking points thy these tips. 
1. Sharpen your flaker's tip.
2. use a non flexing pad( rock,wood,thick rubber) most people use leather early on as a pad, but you have to learn where to place the point on your hand before you get good results.