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uuugh... what the heck am i doing wrong???
JackCrafty:
Here's a good video series on making thin flakes and then shaping the flake into an arrowhead. Copper is probably the best material for percussion (for beginners)....and establishing a good "platform" is critical. A platform is a bump that sicks out from the edge. You've got to grind down the platform so that it is not sharp....otherwise you will just crush the platform when you hit it.
---http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOOzSv6kU1o&feature=channel
---http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nAWbAPlJE0&NR=1
---http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwQK2oul8cY&feature=related
Hillbilly:
Toms22, where are you in NC? There are a few good knap-ins in the area. The one at the Schiele Museum in Gastonia the first weekend in August is a good one. We organized the first annual NC Knap-in near Burlington last Oct., will try to do it again next fall. The North Georgia Knap-in is just north of Atlanta in the Spring, and there is one every October in Lenoir City, TN that is only a couple hours drive from western NC.
Shooter_G22:
why isnt there any knap in here in north texas...
does anybody know of anything like that... that would be close enough for me to go to me and some of the boys on the team???
i woould love to go to one of these events ????
D. Tiller:
No matter how good you get you'll still be learning. I busted up nearly a ton of rock before I got some useable points. Still not all that good yet but I keep trying. Keep breaking and taking advice from guys here and watch the youtube videos. They are great!
Where you at? If your up in the Northwest the big Glass Buttes gathering in OR is the best place to meet a bunch of the best flint knappers on the West coast.
leapingbare:
I think there is a knapp in in O.K sometime, and there are allot of knappers in T.X.
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