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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: FlintWalker on August 22, 2008, 12:40:56 am

Title: Junk Glass, what do you prefer ?
Post by: FlintWalker on August 22, 2008, 12:40:56 am: Since good flint is rare as hens teeth around here, I'm left searching the woods for old jars, bottles etc. to knapp.
So far I've tried blue mason jar bottoms, an aunt Jamima syrup bottle, old brown bleach jugs, TV screen, a whiskey bottle, baking dishes and window glass. My favorite is those old bleach jugs. The bottom is about 3/8" thick and nice and flat. I really like the look of that old caramel colored glass. The baking dishes are the toughest, but the brown stuff is prettier.
For all you knappers, what all have you tried? What do you prefer and why? Saw Filer
Title: Re: Junk Glass, what do you prefer ?
Post by: cowboy on August 22, 2008, 12:46:03 am: I've tried several different flavors ;D. The one I seem to prefer in the old (I don't know exactly what they were) but thier white through and through - think it may be oil of olay or something, makes some nice white points. Other glass would be TV picture tubes, have tried window and table top glass but thier just clear and don't show your stuff quite as well :).
Title: Re: Junk Glass, what do you prefer ?
Post by: Otoe Bow on August 22, 2008, 12:48:45 am: Gotta love the Johnstone. ;D That's about the only junk I've tried. I've made lots of junk though. ???

Mike
Title: Re: Junk Glass, what do you prefer ?
Post by: FlintWalker on August 22, 2008, 12:50:33 am: I tried some Johnstone. I would have been better off sitting on one ::)
Title: Re: Junk Glass, what do you prefer ?
Post by: sailordad on August 23, 2008, 03:54:01 am: Quote from: Saw Filer on August 22, 2008, 12:50:33 am
I tried some Johnstone. I would have been better off sitting on one ::)

:D ;D now thats funny

tim
Title: Re: Junk Glass, what do you prefer ?
Post by: mullet on August 23, 2008, 11:38:16 am: I like the brown bleach bottles but they are getting hard to find. Brian Melton buys those clear blue and red dishes from Wallyworld. They make some pretty points and are cheap.
Title: Re: Junk Glass, what do you prefer ?
Post by: D. Tiller on August 23, 2008, 12:57:29 pm: Find a nice glass blower and he or she can provide you with the stuff. I have a source and I gots some purdy purple, reds, oranges and some other stuff! Knaps GOOD! ;D
Title: Re: Junk Glass, what do you prefer ?
Post by: carpenter374 on August 23, 2008, 07:44:23 pm: i like beer bottle bottoms. scrap porcelain tile knaps good too. -carpenter
Title: Re: Junk Glass, what do you prefer ?
Post by: FlintWalker on August 23, 2008, 08:55:49 pm: Eddie, I love those old bleach jugs too. I had two of them, but ruined one. This is the point I got from the other one.
It seems to me that nobody makes much of that caramel colored glass anymore ???
I live in dairy farm country and dairy's use lots of bleach. I bet some of the older dairy's farms around here have some junk piles out on the back fourty filled with those old jugs. I think I'll go see a few of my farmer friends ;D

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Title: Re: Junk Glass, what do you prefer ?
Post by: cowboy on August 23, 2008, 08:58:13 pm: That's beautiful Shannon! The color of that glass really shows off your flaking well :).
Title: Re: Junk Glass, what do you prefer ?
Post by: jamie on August 23, 2008, 08:59:47 pm: lysol concentrate and jaegermeister lots of flat spots. all the old farms here also have bottle dumps going back 100s of years and have huge flat bottoms
Title: Re: Junk Glass, what do you prefer ?
Post by: JackCrafty on August 24, 2008, 03:37:19 am: I prefer glass over any other knappable material I've tried. I've tried the wallyworld dishes and I agree, they work great. The only thing I don't like about glass is the danger to my kids when they insist on walking around in bare feet. >:(
Title: Re: Junk Glass, what do you prefer ?
Post by: D. Tiller on August 24, 2008, 06:48:23 pm: Jack, they will learn very quickly not to run arround Dad's knapping area in bare feat. Cut once twice shy!!! ;)
Title: Re: Junk Glass, what do you prefer ?
Post by: Hillbilly on August 25, 2008, 02:21:42 pm: Shannon, that's an awesome point, you're starting to make the rest of us look bad. :o :)

Junk glass is fun to play with. The first point I ever made was from a beer bottle bottom. Here's a few junk glass points:

From a piece of glass found in an old dump in the woods:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v325/hillbillync/Flintknapping/sidenotchdrawn.jpg)

Good ol' toiletite:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v325/hillbillync/Flintknapping/dalton.jpg)

A couple from lumps of slag glass:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v325/hillbillync/Flintknapping/bigyallerpreform.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v325/hillbillync/Flintknapping/perd2.jpg)

And my favorite junk glass point-a piece of that "principal's-office-door-with-chicken-wire-inside glass": (I know that I'm not the only one here familiar with principal's offices ;D )
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v325/hillbillync/Flintknapping/chickenwirepoint.jpg)
Title: Re: Junk Glass, what do you prefer ?
Post by: JackCrafty on August 25, 2008, 02:21:59 pm: ;D
Title: Re: Junk Glass, what do you prefer ?
Post by: cowboy on August 25, 2008, 05:45:26 pm: Those junk glass points sure are purty - always liked that glass judo ;D.
Title: Re: Junk Glass, what do you prefer ?
Post by: FlintWalker on August 25, 2008, 08:59:46 pm: Oooooh! Those are pretty! I love that red one.
Theirs a rock shop about 40 miles from here, over near Mammoth Cave National park. They sell big chunks of slag glass in all different colors. They also have agate. I bet they would want a war pension for some of it though.
How does agate knapp?
Title: Re: Junk Glass, what do you prefer ?
Post by: mullet on August 25, 2008, 10:07:03 pm: It knaps great, just heat treat it at about 450.