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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: mullet on October 21, 2009, 06:32:18 pm

Title: Copper bopping,no FOG
Post by: mullet on October 21, 2009, 06:32:18 pm: I haven't been chipping much lately, too busy at work and working on bows. It is finally cool now. Also, I went back to spalling instead of slabbing. So I've just been thinning out preforms till I have time to finish them. Here are a few I finished in the last week or so after work.

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Title: Re: Copper bopping,no FOG
Post by: nugget on October 21, 2009, 06:37:38 pm: Looks good to me. I need to get outside and work on some also.
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Post by: sailordad on October 21, 2009, 07:06:24 pm: cool points
especially the turkey tail
Title: Re: Copper bopping,no FOG
Post by: DanaM on October 21, 2009, 07:30:10 pm: Looks good eddie, I have the opposite problem its to dang cold to knap, hurts like hell
when ya whack yer frozen fingers ;) :D
Title: Re: Copper bopping,no FOG
Post by: mullet on October 21, 2009, 07:34:52 pm: Thanks, guys. Tim, that turkey tail is actually small enough to put on an arrow. Dana, we have another cold front moving through Saturday, good hunting, high of 80.
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Post by: cowboy on October 21, 2009, 07:39:48 pm: Some good one's there Eddie! At least your bopping is producing some whole points ;).
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Post by: mullet on October 21, 2009, 08:02:06 pm: Paul, I didn't take pictures of the gravel pit. ;D
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Post by: Justin Snyder on October 21, 2009, 08:06:07 pm: Pretty darn good Eddie. My bopping has produced a back yard that looks like a car crash with nothing but tinted glass. ;)
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Post by: Timo on October 21, 2009, 08:06:29 pm: Cool job there Mullet! You been busy. ;)
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Post by: koan on October 21, 2009, 08:09:47 pm: Those are sweet...anyone besides me have better luck knappin when the rock is cold?
Title: Re: Copper bopping,no FOG
Post by: mullet on October 21, 2009, 08:47:49 pm: I don't know anything about cold rock. I like to froze Sunday morning hunting. Had 3 t-shirts on, it was 44dgs. :-\
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Post by: leapingbare on October 21, 2009, 08:54:43 pm: Eddie them look good!'
is the 3rd one down outa some of that blue? or is that dacite?
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Post by: FlintWalker on October 21, 2009, 09:12:20 pm: They all look good. But that first one is out of sight! I love that rock!
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Post by: ryanfromcanada on October 21, 2009, 09:29:17 pm: Quote from: mullet on October 21, 2009, 08:47:49 pm
I don't know anything about cold rock. I like to froze Sunday morning hunting. Had 3 t-shirts on, it was 44dgs. :-\

Its like -5 here in ontario
i think that like 25 degrees farhinheit
Title: Re: Copper bopping,no FOG
Post by: mullet on October 21, 2009, 09:45:42 pm: Jesse, thanks, no, that's Dacite.

Shannon, thats a real nice piece of coral.

Ryanfromcanada, sorry to here that, glad I live in Florida. ;) Last time I worked in northern Manitoba I got frost bite on two toes.
Title: Re: Copper bopping,no FOG
Post by: sailordad on October 21, 2009, 09:50:57 pm: well i never tried cold/frozen rock
however i think that the shock wave would travel better as things seem to shatter easier as they get colder
i have been doing some reading about water treating rock,same there
they say the shiock wave travels better in wet rock
wet meaning its been soaking for months
Title: Re: Copper bopping,no FOG
Post by: Keenan on October 21, 2009, 11:38:31 pm: Sweet looking work Eddie, I need to get out and work on my pile now that hunting is over
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Post by: stickbender on October 22, 2009, 01:14:52 am: Dang boy those are nice! I would almost be afraid to try to notch those. Especially the first one. :o 8)

Wayne
Title: Re: Copper bopping,no FOG
Post by: medicinewheel on October 22, 2009, 01:19:34 am: Quote from: sailordad on October 21, 2009, 07:06:24 pm
cool points
especially the turkey tail

Whichone would be called a turkey tail??

Mullet, those are really nice, I really like the clear shape of the first one!

I think I should start trying to knap some glas some time soon, too...
Title: Re: Copper bopping,no FOG
Post by: mullet on October 22, 2009, 08:34:36 am: Frank, the bottom one is the turkey tail. Are you sure you want to start another addiction?
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Post by: n2everythg on October 22, 2009, 09:34:14 am: Coming over to the dark side huh eddie?

Those are looking real good. Love that last one. what point type is that?

edit: never mind figured it out from just reading the chain.

Love that TT.

N2
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Post by: Bone pile on October 22, 2009, 02:41:38 pm: Lookin' good there Eddie, I'll have to come bug you one of these days
Bone pile
Title: Re: Copper bopping,no FOG
Post by: mullet on October 22, 2009, 02:45:00 pm: Looking forward to it, roger. We ought to make a rock run to the Alifia River.
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Post by: StevenT on October 22, 2009, 04:45:45 pm: They are all great looking points, but my fav is the 2nd one. Looks like it could have been done back when men were sticking those big hairy elephants.
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Post by: Michael C. on October 22, 2009, 05:01:54 pm: Good gravy, I keep seeing these great points and I don't need another sickness just yet. Super work Eddie I really like that last one and the first one really pulls my eye for some reason.
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Post by: ricktrojanowski on October 22, 2009, 09:05:46 pm: Great work Eddie. Those are some fine looking points. I especially like that TurkeyTail.
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Post by: brian melton on October 23, 2009, 12:34:58 am: Nice work Eddie..... ;D
Title: Re: Copper bopping,no FOG
Post by: medicinewheel on October 23, 2009, 02:59:20 am: Quote from: mullet on October 22, 2009, 08:34:36 am
Frank,... Are you sure you want to start another addiction?

It is addictive, isn't it...!?
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Post by: Pappy on October 23, 2009, 06:33:11 am: Nice stuff Eddie.
Pappy
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Post by: GregB on October 23, 2009, 07:40:22 am: Those are some good looking points Eddie!
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Post by: Hillbilly on October 23, 2009, 12:42:43 pm: Killer points, Eddie!
Title: Re: Copper bopping,no FOG
Post by: mullet on October 23, 2009, 03:31:05 pm: Thanks
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Post by: Dax on October 26, 2009, 08:55:02 pm: Real nice heads, mullet....
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Post by: mullet on October 26, 2009, 10:02:37 pm: Thanks, Dax.
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Post by: sailordad on October 27, 2009, 10:03:22 pm: no i wouldnt say its addicting
so i havent made but 2 bows in neaqrly a year now since i started this habit,i mean hobby.
its no more addicting thanwell breathing,no not addicting just consuming
it consumes you like,well like nothing you have experienced
after awhile you wont even notice the latest bleeding gash on your fingers
you just keep on a whacking away,you get so into it that all else is irrelevent untill your done for the time being
like i said its not addicting,just consuming
well gotta go bust on a rock or three now,need my fix for the night lol ;D
Title: Re: Copper bopping,no FOG
Post by: PeteC on November 01, 2009, 08:16:12 am: Great points Eddie.They ought to get the coon. ;) God Bless
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Post by: recurve shooter on November 01, 2009, 10:08:40 am: Quote from: mullet on October 21, 2009, 07:34:52 pm
Thanks, guys. Tim, that turkey tail is actually small enough to put on an arrow. Dana, we have another cold front moving through Saturday, good hunting, high of 80.

lol. gotta love the south! >:D