Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Lombard on March 07, 2010, 12:20:35 am
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Worked on some of the stuff Bill Skinner had given me. I got a couple pecked out today. Nothing great, but for me, at least they didn't break. The Talhatta stuff was kicking my butt, but this Coastal Plains material was a little easier to work. Finding all kinds of fossils in this stuff, just little shells and such.
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You sound like me....just happy to end up with something whole! Good work. :)
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just need to clean up them edges and they are killers. nice job
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Looks like you've got the basics down. Symmetry, straight edges and thinning. Yep, if you pick those deltas back and forth you'll clean and sharpen up that edge and can fine tune the symmetry at the same time. That's some pretty material.
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Thanks guys, I will clean those edges up, and try to sharpen them. Should the pressure flaker be sharpened to a fine point for that work?
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When I clean the edge up I use a small pressure flaker that has been pounded flat and thin. then I go back over it with a very sharp pointed, hard horse shoe nail or ice pick.
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Yes it should
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Those are looking good. What everybody said about cleaning up the edges. You also might to think about useing a beveled edge. Alabama has a minimum width of 7/8", so you don't want to get them too narrow. Missed you at Stanley's knap-in this weekend, are you going to be able to make the Moundville Knap-In this weekend? Bill
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Sounds like me too but be proud of your work and forge ahead knapping is a learning process till the day you stop doing it no matter how good you are!
Russ