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nugget:
Did someone say Nugget?
cowboy:
Did Carter make pills? I thought he was into peanuts ;D.
That's good bowmunky - post your work as ya go and we'll help as best we can :). Thier's little nugget's everywhere ;).
bowmunky13:
i made a nugget of lead with my blow torch and some dammaged fishing weights from my cast net... was thinking of using some clay to make a form for lead blunts... sound good to you guys?.... wow i have no straight line of thought when it comes to bowyering
leapingbare:
i don't know much about lead or copper but i think plane lead is too soft , lead might work on obsidian but too soft for much anything else i reckon.
cowboy:
bowmunky, if your talking about lead blunts for arra's I would'nt know about that. But if your talking about pure lead boppers for knapping - like leapingbare said, it's too soft. A lot of people use copper boppers with the ends filled with lead though. I made some up one time but with the rock I work I was through the thin copper and into the lead within a few days.
If your interested in making that type of bopper: Go to hardware store, HD, Lowes. By some copper end caps (whatever size) and swedge them out to a hemisphere (I peened em out with a rounded steel rod). Sweat a short peice of copper tube to the cap (about four inches), and fill the cap up with lead. Or you can glue a wooden handle onto it after youve added the lead.
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