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Your "whoa! I did it" moment

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Dalton Knapper:
Yeah all of the sudden many years ago...It all amounted to more swift and inward strikes on well prepared platforms and knowing the angle of sttrike for a ggiven result instead of laying the biface flat and hoping for the best. Still working on it. I'll never finish.

JackCrafty:
When I successfully heated my first batch of rock in turkey roaster.  Suddenly, a thousand pounds of crap stone looked like treasure instead of landscaping.

Chippintuff:
Mine came a few years ago when I was doing percussion. Like everybody else, I was having all those same problems and nothing I would try improved the results. Finally I rested the biface hard on my thick lap pad, got a death grip on it, turned it to an angle of my choosing and waylaid it. The flake came off almost like a miracle. It was when I relaxed enough to try something that went against most of what I had read and seen.

WA

iowabow:
Mine came twice once with copper with help from flint walker at twin Oaks when I learned to run flakes by staying below the center line and then once ABO when I learned to run flakes across the stone by starting above the centerline.

flungonin:
Tracker could you show a picture of the hold you discribed

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