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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: jamie on May 24, 2012, 10:53:09 am

Title: fluted knife (pic heavy)
Post by: jamie on May 24, 2012, 10:53:09 am

george town

first flute ran fairly deep but not enough depth
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/coyotebow/photo42.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/coyotebow/photo33-1.jpg)

indirect punch prepared for second flute. i usually strike with a billet with hammerstone

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/coyotebow/photo14-1.jpg)

flute removed

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/coyotebow/photo34.jpg)



aside from one flake the base is untouched after fluting

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/coyotebow/photo4.jpg)

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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/coyotebow/photo25.jpg)

Title: Re: fluted knife (pic heavy)
Post by: cowboy on May 24, 2012, 01:09:03 pm

Your a lot braver than i am Jamie! Or maybe i just haven't built up the nerve after all the beautiful half points i have laying around. lol.. Nice blade!

Title: Re: fluted knife (pic heavy)
Post by: TRACY on May 24, 2012, 01:55:52 pm

Awesome work with abo tools Jamie! Good looking flutes! Do you support the would be flute to get the most out of it?

Tracy

Title: Re: fluted knife (pic heavy)
Post by: jamie on May 26, 2012, 09:21:28 am

Paul I break them too but using the punch minimizes the breakage. Depending on the flake scars I can tell how far the flute will travel too. Tracy for a piece like this I just grip the edges hard, for a longer piece I place an anvil against my leg to support the tip. Still haven't gotten a flute to travel to the tip of the point with the leg method though. Several of the primitive jigs I've come up with get it pretty close though. I'm just too lazy to set everything up though

Title: Re: fluted knife (pic heavy)
Post by: iowabow on May 26, 2012, 10:23:45 am

Hey jamie are you taking two flakes from the backside?

Title: Re: fluted knife (pic heavy)
Post by: gstoneberg on May 26, 2012, 10:34:55 am

That's very nice.  I haven't worked the nerve up to try for a big flute.  Don't make many points large enough.  Someday...  Thanks for posting those pics.

George

Title: Re: fluted knife (pic heavy)
Post by: jamie on May 26, 2012, 11:29:20 am

Not sure if you mean relief flakes or flutes. I relieve the sides of the platform with two flakes before fluting. I've also done multiple flutes on one side of a point if the flute channel is narrow. Thanks George, all a flute is is a thinning flake. If you have a decent center ridge, fluting is fairly easy. Flat pieces are tougher to flute.

Title: Re: fluted knife (pic heavy)
Post by: Bevan R. on May 26, 2012, 10:37:04 pm

What George said X2. I can break points easy enough with trying to do it intentionally!