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toms22:
Thanks for the replys Guy. Hillbilly I live in Winston Salem

knap_123:
i use a cheap pen type screw driver. you know the pocket pen type you get for a buck or 2. i take my grinder and flatten both sides and this works for me. i have a problem keeping the h.n. straight and in the holder. the scewdriver already has a handle on it.  for abo style i use a antler or rib bone flattened.

JackCrafty:
Here's a link to an excellent youtube video showing horse shoe nail knapping tools.  The part showing the tools is at 2:55 to 5:25 (minutes).

---http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4HnCQb8-uE&feature=related

Wolf Watcher:
Guess I am confused about what this entry was all about.  Thought it was about a beginner wanting to know about tools to make notches with.  I know I am a little slow as it has taken me close to 50 years to learn what you experts have learned in a much shorter time. I may not be very smart but I do have an opinion about most everything including what the best and most successful way to get started.  May I ask if you could make good deep balanced notches with a horse shoe nail on hard materials when you started?  Its my belief that beginners should start with the best tools, easy materials, and the best information available and work into the more difficult materials and point styles as the learning curve is achieved.  I will stop trying to give advice to beginners, but will continue to send some basic tools to the ones that might need something to get them started.  Watcher

Hillbilly:
WW, no need to get all fuzzed up and overreact about nothing, I for sure didn't mean to offend you or suggest that you shouldn't offer advice to beginners. I'm certainly no "expert" myself-I just a hack knapper, you're probably a lot better than me. Everybody has their own experiences and methods that work for them, and what is best for one may not be best for someone else or vice-versa. All I said was that for me personally, horseshoe nails have worked better on a wide range of materials- never found them harder to use than anything else. I personally could never notch well with the flat-tipped notchers that others make look easy. For that matter, my notching isn't that great to begin with. That wasn't a personal attack, just saying that there is no one way to knap-there are a wide range of tools and techniques because everyone is different. For example, I could never knap worth a crap with copper boppers, even though everyone told me that was the easiest way to learn and was what I should use. I just wound up being frustrated and ruining rock until I tried antler and wood percussion, and then everything started to fall into place for me. Someone else's experience may be exactly the opposite.

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