Main Discussion Area > Flintknapping
Selling our work Pics added
Sasquatch:
--- Quote from: Tracker0721 on January 17, 2016, 01:25:43 am ---Working long days so I haven't been able to say how awesome ya'll have been doing on your knapping, but a quick look shows a lot of awesome works being posted! Keep it up ya'll!
So I've been being told I could sell some of the knives or arrowheads I've made, would love to make some extra money to fund my hobbies, but I always feel my work isn't good enough. Especially compared to some of ya'lls on here! cough Scott's knife cough cough. So I took a gander on etsy to see what the markets like and there's some awesome knives, priced around what I'd think is right 200 or so, but others that are terrible yet marked up and others that are beautiful for like 50 bucks! How do you all judge your prices and how do you sell? I know the masters deserve the high prices and the new guys should keep practicing but how do you decide where your product sits on that scale?
--- End quote ---
post some pics we want to see them.
Stringman:
--- Quote from: Tracker0721 on January 18, 2016, 12:21:02 pm ---Does anybody time how long they take to knap something then put an hourly rate to it?
--- End quote ---
It takes me about the same amount of time to make a side notched hunting point as it does to knap a 6" knife blade. Selling by the inch is the easiest way to calculate price. There are other considerations like flake quality, material, & point design...so you will need some experience with different knapping stones to be better able to offer a reasonable price.
I have personal feelings that make me guarded against slab work, but try not to let that interfere with critiquing others who do it. I understand the reason behind it and agree that in some cases the material is just too valuable to waste. However, I chose to reduce material with percussion and rarely work with slabs, therefore the other method doesn't feel right to me.
Tracker0721:
I'll post some pics once I have some Internet. Takes up too much data to download em.
Tracker0721:
So here's my first set followed by some arrowheads since my fingers healed up. And the bear head that was a broken head. Gonna inlay it in my rifle stock maybe.
All spalled. All sharp as can be. That's my strong suite
Sasquatch:
That's what I'm talking about! Nice points, those will kill. Thanks for posting. It's good to follow peoples work.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version