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DBernier:
Hey Cowboy I'm with you. I start out with a 6 inch spall to make a 4 or 5 inch spear point and end up with a 1/2 inch Dove point. I admire those guys like Hillbilly, Vinson, James and others who can "see" the arrowhead in the rock and then go in and get it. I guess it is a matter of practice and thinking about every flake you take off. Someday?  :(

PS Paul, Those are gorgeous points and will take anything on our Continent. Great job. Will look good on some footed shafts when you get some made.  ;D

Dick

cowboy:
That's a good point there Steve ;D - I mean about making the notches shallow so the sinew will fill em, I hadn't thought about that. On the cookin, I've treated bifaces as much as an inch thick with varrying results, some survived some didn't. Best to play it safe for awhile and try to keep under a half inch - and most importantly have them three to four inches under your packed dirt - keep that fire HOT for a day, then let them cool over the next coupla days.
  I'll be gettin some kind of shafts put together over the next coupla weeks Dick, am falling way behind on that part. Just hope whatever I get made will fly straight - may use those Phragmite reed shafts from Kowechobe Bob.

Hillbilly:
BTW Paul, I haven't forgotten the cane, just haven't had time to get to the cane patch. Soon.....

jamie:
damn dude those are awesome.

once i get used to a material i can tell what the weight is, within 10 grains. all the flint points i made this year came in at 90-100 grains. couple werent wide enough to hunt with though. mine never look the same. mostly triangles but some have rounded ends some stems, some flat.

mullet:
The only way I can get mine the same weight is to cut the preforms out with a saw.And then grind with the diamond grinder.

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