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Point of The Month - Sticky
1442:
That's a nice one Penderbender, glad your playing along.
Bowmo, I've tried a steel tip flaker on hooks but it just don't seem to work nearly as well as copper. I get stalled out or break the hook way way more with steel than with copper, so much so that I don't use steel to shape a hook at all anymore.
Stringman:
Nice work pender! You gotta use what you can. Finding a good source was one of the toughest parts of knapping for me.
bjrogg:
Those are both nice bowmo.
Pender I like playtime with you. Nice job and as Scott said you have to use want you got. Really nice and great job notching.
Bjrogg
bowmo:
Pender, that point looks great. Clear glass can be kinda boring but it's a great learning material and sure is easy to come by. I use to use the bottle bottoms from things like Jager and Sky vodka when I could find them. Fairly flat and the green and blue is more fun than clear. Took me like 8 years of knapping to figure out how to collect stone myself here in Illinois.
1442, I really didn't find the soft steel to be very aggressive and never had a stall. Just had to come up with creative ways to support the hook at the edges of my pad. The snaps that shortened it were just because it was still flat in cross section there. Helps I wasn't using a heat treated stone tho.
bowmo:
Here is another Montell attempt I knocked out today. Also a Dalton cuz that one got too narrow on me.
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