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couple more newbie knapper questions
John K:
Anyone wear leather gloves when they knapp ???
Bishop:
Dana
Couldnt find the duct tape, so i spit on it, rubbed some dirt on it and that did the trick....then told my wife it was your fault.... ;D
Bishop
Hillbilly:
Ryan, I have hands like leather, but I'm also sometimes lazy about cleaning the flakes off my pad after every whack. Those are the ones that usually get me.
Justin Snyder:
Once I managed to get a large flake between my work and my leg while I was trying to get some good force on it. :o Since then I started putting a big leather pad on my leg too. Justin
Otoe Bow:
I worked some obsidian for the first time this weekend, (very sweet compared to Johnstone ;D). I kept my deerskin pad on my leg even when doing my pressure work just to keep the little glass shards out of the fibers of my jeans(that's really irritating). Call me a wuss, but I also had on some safety glasses and a mechanic's padded-palm work glove on my left holding hand. :-\ I've never used it with stone, but when it comes to glass, I'm kind of skeerd. ;)
I also clean each flake off my pad, not so much to keep from cutting myself but I like to look at them to see how the turned out.
Otoe
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