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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive on July 27, 2008, 12:08:54 pm

Title: little rainy afternoon..napping or knapping
Post by: Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive on July 27, 2008, 12:08:54 pm
well i opted to knap instead of nap and made a sweet little knife from Texas chert and deer antler  and real nice hunting point from dacite   ....a little question about that...is it pronounced- (day-site)  or (dah-site)  or is it tomayto or tomahto.   anyways here they are   and as always all done with abo tools.  these are done with a single elk antler billet and 2 deer antler flakers.

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Title: Re: little rainy afternoon..napping or knapping
Post by: Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive on July 27, 2008, 08:13:34 pm
kinda slow in here today...so anyways,  it rained again today for a long time, and when it wasnt raining it was too muggy, i shot a few rounds and sat inside and blistered my fingers up.  all dacite points all abo tools- Ryan

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Title: Re: little rainy afternoon..napping or knapping
Post by: madcrow on July 27, 2008, 08:22:59 pm
Those are real nice.  You can go ahead and box the up and send them to me.  It will give me something to look at while I beat myself in the head with an ishi stick. :o
Title: Re: little rainy afternoon..napping or knapping
Post by: Otoe Bow on July 27, 2008, 11:35:10 pm
Ryan:  You're an inspiration.  :o I worked on one last night (after a full day of home remodeling) and got it to legal dimensions, but it's still a little fat.  I hope I can get'm thin like yours.  Those are so sweet, plus at the speed I work, that's about a year's worth. 

Mike
Title: Re: little rainy afternoon..napping or knapping
Post by: Pappy on July 28, 2008, 06:19:19 am
Nice work,just beautiful work. :)
   Pappy
Title: Re: little rainy afternoon..napping or knapping
Post by: GregB on July 28, 2008, 08:21:28 am
Those turned out great! ;)
Title: Re: little rainy afternoon..napping or knapping
Post by: cowboy on July 28, 2008, 10:03:06 am
Ryan: I'm not sure about the pronunciation of dacite - just call like ya see it, I've heard it called both ways but it's all the same stuff, heheh :). Your doing some fine work there, rain out's aren't all bad I reckon. Fine job on that TX stuff with all abo tools, looks like you thinned it out nicely..
Title: Re: little rainy afternoon..napping or knapping
Post by: gene roberts on July 28, 2008, 04:01:42 pm
Very nice... :)
Title: Re: little rainy afternoon..napping or knapping
Post by: Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive on July 28, 2008, 08:43:50 pm
thanks for the compliments guys, i am getting a little better with each one. i have a box of spalls  that i used to think were garbage but i kept them anyway incase i ever got to a point where i could tackle them.  Now i am using that box of "junk" and making better points than ever.  i cant wait to use my good stuff again.- Ryan
Title: Re: little rainy afternoon..napping or knapping
Post by: jamie on July 30, 2008, 10:27:34 am
i did the same . i went through my debitage and just started nocking points out from stuff i thought was unusable. if its a challenging piece of stone you learn a lot more from it than a simple flake. awesome work peace