Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: recurve shooter on September 18, 2009, 08:37:02 pm
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whats up guys? i found a toilet tank and hit it with a rock, so now i have a few slabs of "john stone" to play with. i have been able to create some point shaped things from glass, but this stuff confuses me. i think your supposed to knock off big flakes, then pressure flake those right? i cant figure out how to get off big flakes. i can only get em about the size of my thumb nail. help please.
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i never tried toilet.
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fragile stuff it is hard to do anything with,but you can make a point out of it ,it will crumble like chalk if you are too ruff with it.
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huh. guess i'll stick to glass for now. ;D
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Keep knapping the jhon stone. its very good to learn on. if your platforms and angles arnt just right your flacks will stall out.
Learn to knap the johnstone and your do good on everything else.
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Thunder chert will tell on you real quick. If your platforms are not correct it will let you know.
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cool. but how do i do it? its bout a half inch thick. do i knock off flakes and work them or what?
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cool. but how do i do it? its bout a half inch thick. do i knock off flakes and work them or what?
Here is a good starter "How To" for you...just add the www.
paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/topic/4142/t/Johnstone-Slab-Knapping-Tutorial.html
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pretty good!
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Here are some from the Classic,them boys knew how to nap Johnstone.And the winner. ;) ;D
Pappy
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John stone, thunder chert, poo flint, lotsa common and not so common names. Leads to too much confusion. I think we should all refer to it by the technical name that a geologist would use...crapite.
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I actually like knapping toiletite. The older tanks especially are pretty good material. Some of the new ones are pretty crappy.
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Them are something else Steve....would never guess that they were Thunderchert....look almost like Novaculite in a Way!
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wow. you guys know your stuff. the stuff i got is out of an old streamline camper i found in the woods.....well.....more of a streamline pile of twisted tin and glass with a tree ontop of it and small oaks growing out of it. been there for a while. so i went after it with a crowbar and axe and found the toilet, busted off the tank, and hauled it back home. guess i got to get to practiceing. thanks for the replies guys!
hillbilly, thats awsome work man. hopefully one day i'll be able to make a sharp, point shaped object. ;D
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Very nice Hillbilly,You may be our new champion this year with stuff like that. :)
Pappy
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Those are nice Mr. Steve knapper extrordinair ;D.
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Wow those are some good looking points Hillbilly.
How functional is johnstone for hunting?
Thanks Leroy
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here is some I posted a whiole back but for some reason ,I am breaking everyone I try now.
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Steve, Man those are the nicest Jonnystone points that I,ve ever seen. After all that rhyolite , porcelin must be a cake walk for you. :>} Again great points. Bob
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Thanks, guys. Stoker, I think good johnstone would probably make a pretty lethal hunting point- it breaks sharp, I've cut myself to the bone working it before.