Author Topic: Playing with Keokuk (Read 4272 times)

Majuba Tom · « **on:** October 13, 2014, 05:01:16 pm »

1st 2 pic's are a Dalton and 2 blades I made this weekend.

The 2nd 2 are of a Ulu knife I am working on. I had some hinging and thinning issues but it still looks good. The handle is still drying. I will probably have it glued on in a few hours. I wish it was bigger but isn't that always the case.

Majuba Tom

Outbackbob48 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 13, 2014, 06:50:44 pm »

Tom , lookin real good, I like the Ulu, nice. Bob

cowboy · « **Reply #2 on:** October 13, 2014, 07:25:46 pm »

All looking nice! Wish I had a way to heat keokuk better, swung by Ratzat's place and got a few buckets a ways back. It just kinda, sits there

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Stringman · « **Reply #3 on:** October 14, 2014, 10:09:53 am »

Me and keokuck don't get along that well, so when I see work like yours I have much respect! Nice clean stuff and the knife looks great!

Dalton Knapper · « **Reply #4 on:** October 14, 2014, 11:55:24 am »

You did great. A lot of folks like Keokuk and I think it's OK, but I have a lot of trouble thinning it because the flakes that I remove are always thin! That also increases the potential for hinges. Maybe it's the grade of rock I have, but it's hard stuff even heat treated if you ask me. So, your work looks perfectly fine to me.

flungonin · « **Reply #5 on:** October 14, 2014, 11:02:20 pm »

Thats pretty awesome work you have done there. That ULU is really appealing.

mullet · « **Reply #6 on:** October 15, 2014, 12:24:17 am »

Those are sweet, Tom. You got that Keosuck really thin. And that Ulu looks really cool.

Majuba Tom · « **Reply #7 on:** October 19, 2014, 01:34:49 pm »

Thank you for your comments.

Now the funny thing about the Keokuk I ordered. I had read some where that there is a real nice chert for giving demonstrations (I am not using it for a demonstration I just want something buttery) and I thought it was the Keokuk. I have not been able to find where I read that.

I had been wanting to try the Keokuk anyway and I like how it works. I did discover I had to abrade it like crazy.

There is a lot more types of stone I want to try and I am planing on buying 2 more types in the next month or so. I am going to get some Sonora but I do not know what the 2nd type should be.

I would like some suggestions for the 2nd type of chert/flint that might work like butter if there is one.

So what is everyone's favorite flit?

Thank you for any suggestions.

Tom

cowboy · « **Reply #8 on:** October 21, 2014, 08:27:05 am »

Sonora, Hornstone, Georgetown are a few slick ones..

Dalton Knapper · « **Reply #9 on:** October 21, 2014, 10:49:00 am »

As unglamorous as it is, Edwards chert, when heat treated is one that I have had great success with. I am sure the same goes for Pedernales and Georgetown. So, Texas chert is a sure-fire material and the "bedrock" of good knapping.

That said, I haven't had a lot of other more exotic or limited materials, but I did like some Knife River flint that Woody Blackwell sent me and also enjoyed English flint.

Outbackbob48 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 21, 2014, 12:38:07 pm »

I have beat on a lot of differnt materials and keep coming back to some good heat treated Texas rock, I am really fond of a nice pink pc of Kinely's rock from west Texas. Bob

Lobo69ss · « **Reply #11 on:** October 21, 2014, 04:03:19 pm »

I love/hate Keokuk.... Hornstone is still on my "wanna try" list but I was just gifted some Georgetown & Pedrenales in a point trade on another forum... I don`t know if it`s heat treated or not, but that stuff even slabbed seems sorta tough to me ( but then again, I`ve been doing a lot of Obsidian lately, so I`m just not used to "man rock" anymore...)
That`s some nicely figured rock you`re working tho... the grain matches your Ulu

Primitive Archer