That nice, you have your own source for good flint.
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Originally posted by Neuse View PostThat nice, you have your own source for good flint.
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I am a Michigan knapper, been doing it for 5 years or so. Killed one deer with one of my Flintridge stone points. Wife and I are in New Mexico right now but heading to Texas at the end of the month to visit a Marine buddy who was shot and paralyzed in Viet Nam. He lives just north of San Antonio. Will be out looking for rock in Texas until I get thrown off the river bank, lol.
Be careful when cooking Texas rock. I use a turkey roaster and beach sand. I turn it on and turn it up 50 degrees every hour until it is on high and leave it go for round 6 hours and then turn it off and let it cool down for a few days not removing the lid. Texas rock will get real brittle and break like a piece of hard candy some times.
Google Art of Ishi, he is my teacher. Also check out you tube, Mike Cook (art of ishi) as he has some real good knapping vids.
I will be keeping an eye on this thread as I really enjoy making driveway gravel.
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Sorry I have been busy the last several days and haven't been able to post much let alone do any knapping! I did snaps some pics...
Lets talk tools. I use "modern" copper tools and hammerstones some. All my tools are homebuilt.
First a quick pic of where I knapp, my back porch. It faces south and the sun sets nicely in the evenings making it a relatively warm and protected place to knapp in the early spring, fall and winter.
Two of the basic tools needed to start from a larger rough piece are your Bopper and abrader. My abrader is a piece of busted up common grinding wheel and other grinding wheels of various coarseness.
The abrader is like sandpaper on steroids for stone. We use them to remove areas of stone to thicken and strengthen platforms. Please ask questions if you have any.
Next Boppers, used to strike the platform to remove flakes, both large and small. My boppers are basic copper pipe caps that I have melted and filled half way with lead then attached to some type of handle. You can see I have wood and PVC pipe handles. The largest is 2" all the way down to 1/2", basically bigger tool bigger flakes of material removed- smaller bopper smaller flakes.
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Originally posted by LiftAndShoot View PostI'm jealous of all you talented knappers. I've tried on multiple occasions to learn this discipline and one of two things always gets me - availability of knapable material, or my own horrendous coordination..
As for you coordination, or lack thereof, you're on your on.
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