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supportt, vibration dampening and pain
Parnell:
One thing I switched while pressure flaking is holding the flaker with my whole fist. For a long time I was using my pointer finger pressing on the flaker and I see a lot of that with newer people. There is less power and it hurt my joints.
Last couple months I've been thinking about my posture, etc. Concentrating on sitting up more, keeping my head up, etc. Not doing the cave man hunch. I've been standing up every few minutes to relieve my lower back, which used to get real tight, that was the worst for me. But, I've started a stretching (yoga) regiment and it's gone.
I don't get leg pain from percussion but most of my percussion is freehand.
aaron:
flintknapping is so hard to describe in words.... but when it comes to heavy percussion on the leg , it doesn't have to be painful (unless you miss). Most of the energy should go into the biface. The billet may hit your leg a little, but it's important to use only enough force to get the flake and to hit accurately. the biface should be held on the outside of the left leg for a right handed knapper. press it firmly into the leg and have it positioned so that the billet does not contact the leg at the moment of impact. The billet may hit the leg on follow-through, but most of it's energy is taken by detaching the falke and by moving the biface. This biface movement is minimized by pressing it firmly into the leg. Nodules over the size of a basketball can be worked on the ground , in a shallow hole.
GlisGlis:
--- Quote --- Use a pen of any kind that puts a mark in your mind! Aim small miss small! draw it all out before you swing!
--- End quote ---
I get it but when I miss usually my brain goes in auto hit berserk mode.
It's something in between Parkinson disease and killing frenzy and that's usually when I make the biggest damages
Dakota Kid:
Sounds like you need to chop some firewood or till the garden before you start knapping for the evening and get that berserker stuff out of your system ahead of time. Nothing causes failures faster than losing your temper. :-K >:( :-[
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