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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: paulc on April 18, 2017, 11:22:31 am

Title: I almost made a preform!!
Post by: paulc on April 18, 2017, 11:22:31 am: So close! Coolest obsidian with some weird metallic green flecking look to it when I shifted it in the light. Totally stoked to have gotten one that close, figured out the angles better this go round to get the thinning flakes to run all the way across the piece.

Progress!
Title: Re: I almost made a preform!!
Post by: bjrogg on April 18, 2017, 11:57:01 am: There you go. Congratulations I can see real improvements.
Bjrogg
Title: Re: I almost made a preform!!
Post by: Parnell on April 18, 2017, 11:57:53 am: Way to go! That's real progress!
Title: Re: I almost made a preform!!
Post by: Sasquatch on April 18, 2017, 12:48:14 pm: Looks like end shock, might be something else. Either way don't hit preforms from the end unless you have isolated a platform and support it well.
Title: Re: I almost made a preform!!
Post by: paulc on April 18, 2017, 01:29:44 pm: I wasn't hitting it on an end but I was hitting a spot that i kinda knew was borderline but close to a stack I wanted to remove....I'm happy I had a sense that the hit was bad but unhappy I didn't have enough sense to not hit it. :o

live and learn
Title: Re: I almost made a preform!!
Post by: bjrogg on April 19, 2017, 04:05:32 pm: Quote from: paulc on April 18, 2017, 01:29:44 pm
I wasn't hitting it on an end but I was hitting a spot that i kinda knew was borderline but close to a stack I wanted to remove....I'm happy I had a sense that the hit was bad but unhappy I didn't have enough sense to not hit it. :o

live and learn
Don't worry if you had that much sense you wouldn't be hitting rocks anyway.lol. :o
You'll always be breaking them it's just that they will be nicer ones you break as you get better. ;)
Bjrogg
Title: Re: I almost made a preform!!
Post by: Outbackbob48 on April 19, 2017, 08:06:34 pm: PaulC, you got it going now, great improvement, remember flakes only need to go just past half way from each side to thin not necessary to go coast to coast. Lookin good. Bob
Title: Re: I almost made a preform!!
Post by: nclonghunter on April 19, 2017, 08:42:09 pm: I think you made a preform....then broke it.. :KN
Title: Re: I almost made a preform!!
Post by: Chippintuff on April 22, 2017, 11:14:46 am: I agree that was a preform. You got close, and your guess as to what went wrong is probably right. Always evaluate the failures.

WA