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make-n-break:
I've been trying my hand at Knapping and I've got to say it's a pretty sad endeavor lol. I'm working with beer bottle bottoms and premium floor tile which are my only two readily available learning materials.

Turkey season is approaching rapidly and opens March 25th in Nebraska. I have many razor sharp and ready-to-rock broad heads forged out of spoons, but I REALLY want to harvest one with a knapped point this year.

Can you guys recommend your favorite learning/instructional resource? It can be a DVD, Book, website, YouTube video, anything. I've been watching heaps of YouTube videos but I'm just not quite understanding the basics of angles and percussion. I get tons of step fractures and breaks. I break a dozen points mid-completion before I get one that's serviceable.

Here's my ONLY surviving point that I trust with taking a life. My state only requires 7/16 cutting surface for turkeys. This one is just shy of 1" wide and slices rawhide like butter. I've got a few more hideous ones that will work fine for rabbits and squirrels.

bowmo:
Flintknappingtips and paleomanjim on YouTube are my go to teachers.

Tracker0721:
That's a bottle bottom!?! Awesome. Shoot me a PM with your address and I'll send you some good stuff. Real rock and some good resources. How late does season go for?

Zuma:
Make a trade ASAP. More poinst here than Snow Geese.
I am not home so I can;t  help. This community will.
Zuma

make-n-break:
Season goes to May 31.

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