I made a Mayan eccentric dagger today !

[seminolewind]

Thanks y'all ! I was down in the Mayan Riviera last year and saw one if these pieces in a town called Tulum. Freakin fascinating ! Oh and JDub some of those Mayan/Mexican girls down there would make you want to give up your beating heart for free !!!

[lostarrow]

  With skills like that , I think you could likely do anything you wanted to. The bows will come easy  once you learn to read the wood the way you read your stone.

[BOWMAN53]

dude, WTH!! thats the coolest thing ive ever seen man.

[bubby]

you got some mad skills man, did you take a trip to the crossroads and sell anything to get them

[JW_Halverson]

Thanks y'all ! I was down in the Mayan Riviera last year and saw one if these pieces in a town called Tulum. Freakin fascinating ! Oh and JDub some of those Mayan/Mexican girls down there would make you want to give up your beating heart for free !!!

I am a ginger haired, green eyed, freckled Scandanavian from North Dakota.  Where I came from, every woman was blonde, blued eyed, and buxom.  Anything with dark hair was exotic and highly prized, in my mind.  So in my early 20's I moved to southern California with designs on meeting and wooing some of those lovely Latina girls.  So?  What did I end up involved with?  A blue eyed, buxom blonde that was not only of Scandanavian descent....but she was from a small town outside Oslo, Norway!  Proof that no matter where you go, there you are!!!

[Sasquatch]

Awesome work, a very nice piece of art.

[1442]

Killer!  Only thing that could top that would be a matched set of em. At four hours into it I would have still been trying to thin it and reshape it after breaking the tip off. You're a knapping machine.

[knapperhead]

That thing is wicked.....I've never seen anything like that

[Del the cat]

That just blows my mind....
When we can make stuff like that with our hands there is still hope for mankind.
Don't let the government see it, they'll find a way to prohibit or tax it
Del

[seminolewind]

That just blows my mind....
When we can make stuff like that with our hands there is still hope for mankind.
Don't let the government see it, they'll find a way to prohibit or tax it
Del

I hear ya on that ! I hear they tax you guys in the UK to watch tv is that true?

[Majuba Tom]

Thats crazy good.

[AncientArcher76]

Great work man looks darn near like the original.. Only thing is the stone..lol regardless.. U did mighty well for the first go.. Keepers for sure!!!


Russ

[mullet]

You need to make one with that real, pretty Rainbow Obsidian that I have. Got the Coors Lite waiting and we can fix the bow problem.

[seminolewind]

You need to make one with that real, pretty Rainbow Obsidian that I have. Got the Coors Lite waiting and we can fix the bow problem.

Sounds good to me !!!!

[JW_Halverson]

What I know about knapping would fit inside a sunflower seed shell and rattle around like a BB in a boxcar....but I imagine one of the keys to knapping something like this would be supporting the material properly. 

Can you tell us a little about how you approach a project like this?