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M2A:
Thanks Parnell. I started last winter but spent most of the summer using my free time to split staves or working on my bow trade project. Hope to finish a bow before years end then spend much of the winter working at knapping. Found its simple to keep a few rocks and tools in my pocket at work so usually spend lunch time working at it there as well. Had high hopes of finding some local chert but everything so far is freeze cracked and have not convinced the owners to let me dig a pit, with the backhoe, in next years corn fields lol.     

Worked a bit today to haft that knife onto an osage handle but think it may be too thick to look nice. Now I understand 1st hand at why folks talk about having the base thin for ease of hafting.               

bjrogg:
Keep at it Mike. You seem to have the basics. Now it just takes a lot of hitting stone.
Bjrogg

Parnell:
Looks like you are doing well.  I haven't sat down to knap much lately with home improvements going on...but, soon. 
Nice work.

Marc St Louis:
They look good, well done

M2A:
Thanks Marc.

I don't know enough to debate this but seems the basic late woodlands style arrow point was a triangle without  notches for sinew such as an Erie point. So figured I'd work in that direction this week. Was able to get some large enough flakes from some spalls to use so that was a positive step in the right direction. Finished 4 this week. Pretty happy with them as they are better in width to thickness ratio than I had before. The final one I finished up is a bit longer, I thought if used as a hunting point it would provide better penetration than the others, but not sure on that.

First time the sun has been out in some time and could see the flake scars rather well( for better or worse) so got a pic of them. Pretty happy with how they turned out and at 1-1.25" in width they would be legal hunting points.  It will be some time before I try and haft these but I suppose you glue and wrap with sinew just like you would a notched point? Without having a notch kinda throws my mind off.
Mike
IMG_3968 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr   

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