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Ryan Jacob:
Also never try o pressure quartzite or basalt. Seems to be a futile endeavor.

Parnell:
Steps are generally the result of not abrading and improper platforms.  Use pressure to set those platforms up...what I call "backflake".  Identify where you want to drive that flake using percussion, flip it over and pressure flake DOWN not IN to trim your platform, flip it back over abrade the edge, then use percussion...follow through with your strike.

Concentrate on making symmertrically bi-faced preforms before thinking about your point. Pressure/Percussion...Yin/Yang...Up/Down...Wax On Wax Off grasshopper!   :OK

It's always so hard to type and write flintknapping.  Shoot it's hard to help in person!

Hope it may help...

bjrogg:
Steve I agree with everything you just said there. Especially the being hard to type someone how to knap. I know I should use more pressure flaking to set up platforms for percussion. I've been working on it it and it really has helped. I still need to do it more though. One thing I found that helped me was showing my cousin how to knap. It made me slow down study material, set up platforms, explain what I was doing and tell what I expected flake to do. I'm not sure how much it helped my cousin but it sure helped me.
Bjrogg

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