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Dalton Knapper:
Locogear - as for casting a point, I think the weight would be very important and since it is metal, the sharpness of the edge is a consideration. Stone points have naturally sharp edges because of the way they are made and a metal cast would be inferior. Your metal will weigh more than rock and if you are going to make the point from metal, why not just make contact era points from saw blades as suggested or do like the Comanche and other historic tribes and use barrel hoops or comparable metal. It just seems a little odd to use metal for rock. I am sure you can find many examples of iron points in the historic record, but just be aware that most probably didn't fit modern width requirements by your state's game laws.

riverrat:
bottle bottoms are easy and the hard things about them teach you to knap and flake just about anything. the glass is alot easier to remove than a lot of flint ive worked. but it teaches you all the right angles, the pressure, how to deal with flat edges, convexes, how to run flakes a long long way, ect.dont give up. heck its a free resource. its like going to college on a scholorship. lol Tony

Dakota Kid:
Any more picture tube glass is just as free. The trash men won't take them. I see them laying every where. I picked up three small ones today in fact. The glass breaks as easily as bottle glass, but there's more to start with. When I first started my points always came out way smaller than I intended. The extra glass the picture tubes provide helps out with that.

There are vids on utube on how to break them safely. They are under a vacuum and will implode if you don't equalize pressure before hitting them heavy.

If I have time later, I'll post some of my spoon points. I finally managed to knap a hunt worthy point last week so hopefully I'll transition to stone points by next hunting season.

GlisGlis:
If you are after cheap boradheads you may want to  google for "trade points arrowheads"
there is also a youtube vid on spoon arrowheads
You may also consider bone arrowheads
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,36300.0.html

Locogear:
All that sounds great, no I haven't given up on knapping but in the meantime I want to start hunting right away :p and yea I know to make the metal light enough I'll have to use a soft metal that won't hold a good edge, but y'all have given me some good ideas to think on, I appreciate all the help

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