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StevenT:
What type of antler are you using as the tip in your giant ishi stick and as a hammer?
nclonghunter:
--- Quote from: StevenT on December 29, 2015, 02:39:17 pm ---What type of antler are you using as the tip in your giant ishi stick and as a hammer?
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Hey StevenT, it is the base of a whitetail antler. Where it is cut off the skull. I use a hatchet to chop downward and remove the burls around the base. Then cut it as long as you like. There's usually so much curve in a whitetail that I can usually get around 3-4 inches thats fairly straight.
Hunts with stone:
Nice set of pictures and showing the platform's. The overshots show your getting as much tranfer of energy as one would ever need. Honing in on Striking forces will be a new skill set to acquire . Kudus on the work up.
Hummingbird Point:
I think it is similar to how Marty is doing it, which is similar to how I'm doing it and both are similar to how Patrick (JackCrafty) is doing it. At this point I think is like looking at a flat piece of wood and saying it was made using a saw. The exact kind of saw and how exactly to use the saw we can figure out as we go, but at least we can say it is not a slab split out of the log with a wedge, nor a rough hewn timber done with an axe.
Keith
Hunts with stone:
True Kieth . ABO should hold true to all aspects not just the knapping. Primatial work should prevail throughout the workout from procurement to manufacture
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