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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: 1442 on October 26, 2016, 02:45:15 am

Title: black hook
Post by: 1442 on October 26, 2016, 02:45:15 am

flake, preform, and hook

Title: Re: black hook
Post by: Orrum on October 26, 2016, 10:17:28 am

Very hi level work and the color of the hook is nice for sure!!!

Title: Re: black hook
Post by: Parnell on October 26, 2016, 01:22:22 pm

I've got to sit down and try that.  I just seem to wander into point mode when I sit down.

Title: Re: black hook
Post by: Trapper Rob on October 26, 2016, 02:19:20 pm

I like the way the white is at the top.

Title: Re: black hook
Post by: phyankord on October 26, 2016, 02:24:45 pm

do you people go fishing with these?

Title: Re: black hook
Post by: 1442 on October 26, 2016, 03:10:12 pm

Thanks for the kind words.
Everyone who knaps should try a stone hook or three or five.
They are easy to do and work very well at catching fish too.

Phyancord,  I do, they work, and work well.
Its been a while but I've got sinew string, switch cane poles and a good selection of stone hooks and jigs assembled and ready to go.

Title: Re: black hook
Post by: phyankord on October 26, 2016, 05:17:40 pm

man you people are hardcore

Title: Re: black hook
Post by: selfbow joe on October 26, 2016, 09:10:59 pm

I like how that turned out. Looks really good

Title: Re: black hook
Post by: 1442 on October 27, 2016, 11:06:29 am

Thanks again!
I have fished all my life. When I started knapping I tjougt of a hook but took a couple years to ever try one. Then after I made one I thought that's cool but surely it wont work and would break too easy so I sat on it for another year before I ever got one wet.
Once it hit the water and I was hanging fish left and right I was hooked. I probably only caught one out of ten strikes that day but it was awesome. I've since learned more of how to fish them and get the fish in but a lot of them still come loose because there is no barb and not much penetration either unless it pokes through some soft tissue around the fishes mouth.
I been gonna video fishing with one for sometime and hope to do that soon, but I struggle with posting pics bad enough. 

Title: Re: black hook
Post by: Zuma on October 27, 2016, 04:44:47 pm

Cool 8)
I made my first one 30 years ago.
Are you gonna try eccentrics??
Zuma

Title: Re: black hook
Post by: bjrogg on October 27, 2016, 06:53:37 pm

That's pretty darn cool there. I pretty sure I'd break it in two before I got I done. Probably just before I got it done.
bjrogg

Title: Re: black hook
Post by: phyankord on October 27, 2016, 08:56:46 pm

have you ever tried barbing a hook before?

Title: Re: black hook
Post by: 1442 on October 27, 2016, 09:32:59 pm

Zuma, I've always wanted to do something eccentric. I like hooks for their usefulness.
bjorg you never know till ya try,
Phyancord, I have. Broke every one trying to put a barb on the inside of the bend. I've made a couple with the barb on the outside but they just don't look right

Title: Re: black hook
Post by: JW_Halverson on October 29, 2016, 02:13:26 pm

I caught myself staring slackjawed and drooling at that fish hook.  So elegant.

Title: Re: black hook
Post by: 1442 on October 30, 2016, 08:42:13 am

Thanks JW.
Stone hooks look best when wet.