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PHOTOS: Tine specific post hammerstone flaking, in reverse

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bowmo:
To me the appeal and advantages with indirect (tho I use them differently than A T) shine through when it comes to knapping most of the day for days on end, as it is much easier on the joints in my hand. Also, I recently gave myself a lovely mild little hernia that I'm not currently choosing to deal with and pressure flaking can be really hard on it some days but punch work is no problem. That being said I generally don't find the need you use it till the piece is already heavily reduced and I don't have any issues with direct percussion no matter how hard the stone.

AncientTech:

--- Quote from: bowmo on March 24, 2016, 11:44:33 am ---To me the appeal and advantages with indirect (tho I use them differently than A T) shine through when it comes to knapping most of the day for days on end, as it is much easier on the joints in my hand. Also, I recently gave myself a lovely mild little hernia that I'm not currently choosing to deal with and pressure flaking can be really hard on it some days but punch work is no problem. That being said I generally don't find the need you use it till the piece is already heavily reduced and I don't have any issues with direct percussion no matter how hard the stone.

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You are the third person I have heard use the word "shine", with regard to indirect percussion.  The first person was Philip Churchill.  He said that the small cylinder punches (copper) really shined, in making his Danish dagger handles.  I believe it took Philip about 90 hours of practice to become proficient with them.  I have a DVD he sent me of his work, with the small cylinder punches, held between the fingers.  Unfortunately, my good friend Philip passed away about a year and a half ago.  The worst part is that he was so eager to understand what all of the evidence meant.  But, I did not figure it out until about six months after he died.  And, he was so busy filling Danish dagger orders that he did not have much time to carry out his own experiments.  So, he weighed in on mine.  Unfortunately, there were still too many leaps to make.  And, he died before I was able to finally bridge the evidence, with practice, which happened in January of 2015. 

I think it is safe to say that I generally follow a path that was already laid out, that involves percussion, pressure, and a third flintknapping process.  And, in combining these processes, I can generate an additional force under certain circumstances that cannot be directly created.  And, that is how the controlled outrepasse flaking is created - or at least how I first started creating it, in January of 2015, when I realized how the additional force could be created, which seemed to be contained within the information that I found.   

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