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eddy8888:
If you use a 2 0r 4 pound hammer depending on the size of the copper. Make the copper round into a 4 sides, then file the head. the it is work hardened and wont bend easy.
carpenter374:
hey cowboy, whats the best method for removing arrowhead sized flakes off of a core of that alibates? i got some today. about 10 lbs. worth. ranges from a brown with maroon and orange swirl to a yellowish grey and some dark blue.
cowboy:
carpenter: That can be a little hard to explain without showing. It's pretty much the same method from knocking spalls off the core all the way to pressure flaking a finished point. You hear ALWAYS hit below center, but I don't always - sometime you have to knock the whole end off of a cobble to create a flat edge to get started on. Once that's accomplished then you do want to set your platform up below center to knock off good thin long spalls.
For the big spalling work - I'll use a large hammer stone, large copper bopper 1 1/2", or the copper hammer I made. Good stiff platform below center, right weight bopper, rare back and hit it like you mean it - acuracy counts ;D.
carpenter374:
thanks cowboy ive got a bigger bopper in the works. i have the cap but im havin trouble finding a big enough dowell so im gonna have to make one.
El Destructo:
--- Quote from: carpenter374 on April 12, 2008, 07:15:21 pm ---thanks cowboy ive got a bigger bopper in the works. i have the cap but im havin trouble finding a big enough dowell so im gonna have to make one.
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