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PAHunter:
I've dedicated to working hard on knapping this year to make hunting points for my arrows.  Here is a pic of my best so far.  The one on the bottom left is not mine but a template I'm shooting for.  I almost had it the past few points but keep breaking off the tips when trying to thin/sharpen them. 

What tools do you use the final sharpening and tip work?  The ishi stick feels too big to me.

thanks!

soy:
Looking good...I use a smaller pressure flaker than a horseshoe nail flaker to do the sharpening

Chippintuff:
I use a horseshoe nail for all my fine pressure flaking. You are coming right along nicely. Keep it up.

WA

Outbackbob48:
Rob, lookin real good. When going from tip to base I start with the hand pressure flaker  to run the first few flakes, when I used the Ishi on the tip I some times got overshot flakes and ruined my other edge, when going the opposite edge base to tip  I start with Ishi and finish tip area with hand pressure flaker, also do alot of final stuff with the horseshoe nail, clean up and final sharping. Clear as mud :o ;D Bob

PAHunter:
thanks guys!
@Bob well let's say cloudy water.  ;)  Makes sense to use a smaller tool for the tip.  So it sounds like you go tip to base and then base to tip.  What do you mean by opposite edge?  The same surface flakes just came off of but the other edge, so your removing flakes from both edges of one side of the point? 
Are you making it to the Nudge shoot?  I'll be there.

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