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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: jamie on March 23, 2010, 10:32:19 am

Title: pucker factor
Post by: jamie on March 23, 2010, 10:32:19 am

i picked up some butts of mahogony from a guy on ebay who sells slabs and had put aside the three biggest pieces untill i knew what i wanted to do with them. jesse inspired this one. after removing the rounded butt i had a piece with one knapped side and a flat sawn side and did the rest of the work with pressure and some antler punch work. that spot under my index finger had a fracture in it and i thought for sure it would break before i finished. just shy of ten inches. i gotta hand it to you guys who work with slabs cause i usually ruin them. the side that was cut (pictured)had some serious issues that i never thought id get clean. the tip on this one was a bear cause i couldnt figure out a good way to support it. dont know how you managed to support that 18" blade jesse. its raining so im gonna clean this one up and see if i can knock out another one.  ;D

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/coyotebow/knapping/003-14.jpg)

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Post by: FlintWalker on March 23, 2010, 10:38:08 am

I'd have had 5 hunting points by the time I finished that one!  Good one ;)

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Post by: DanaM on March 23, 2010, 10:53:37 am

Cool blade haft that sucker up and go stick it in a bear :)

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Post by: skyarrow on March 23, 2010, 10:54:07 am

thats perty great job

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Post by: cowboy on March 23, 2010, 11:04:43 am

Pucker factor's right - that looks plumb scarry!

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Post by: Pappy on March 23, 2010, 11:06:20 am

Very nice work jamie.That is a beauty. :)
   Pappy

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Post by: Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive on March 23, 2010, 11:08:21 am

yup thats a sweet one. cant figure how you guys arent breaking these long ones

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Post by: brownhillboy on March 23, 2010, 02:21:30 pm

Nice work!  I like it!  :)

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Post by: Hillbilly on March 23, 2010, 02:23:48 pm

Nice chippin', Jamie. That's a wicked looking blade.

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Post by: sailordad on March 23, 2010, 08:01:19 pm

Jaime, that thing is incredible
i was going for an 8" er over the weekend,ended up with multiple busted slabs
oh well they will still make points  ;D

and whos says knapping slabs aint real knapping
they present a whole new set of issues to get thru and still have a long blade left
great work

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Post by: leapingbare on March 23, 2010, 08:09:23 pm

WAY TO GO Jamie!!
 Thats a kicking blade. very impressive!

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Post by: jamie on March 23, 2010, 10:21:45 pm

thanks guys. tim it definetly is a different challenge working with the flat surface. biggest thing when i was cleaning up the flat side of this thing was knowing i could run a flake all the way across if it was lenticular but making myself slow down and run shorter flakes so i didnt build up a stack.

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Post by: ricktrojanowski on March 23, 2010, 10:51:41 pm

Nice work that is a long blade.  Don't let Butterfingers Magillicuddy handle that one. ;)

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Post by: mullet on March 23, 2010, 11:03:31 pm

 Nice blade, Jamie. aren't slabs fun? I worked on a long blade at the first Classic I went to. Hillbilly called it the lawnmower blade. I put it away till I got home for the clean-up work. I went out a day later to finish it and my cat had jumped on it and 3 blades. :'(

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Post by: Lombard on March 23, 2010, 11:04:25 pm

Wicked good!

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Post by: jamie on March 23, 2010, 11:05:25 pm

I remember that blade ed

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Post by: Timo on March 24, 2010, 12:30:38 am

Dang son! Afore  ya know it you'll be given Toots on utube! Awesome work. ;)

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Post by: meximike on March 24, 2010, 01:19:05 am

Nice!

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Post by: VenomBOWslinger on March 24, 2010, 01:56:29 am

Nice work Jaimie!  Slabs can be a challenge especially at that length its an easy ticket for a shockwave breakage.  I bought some cheap crap on ebay called cumberland river flint dont waste your time or money!  The seller Cozine107 is sending me nasty messages because I left him bad feedback.  Oh well...oh sorry just venting...lol NICE MOHAGONY...gimme a call will you???

Russ

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Post by: Justin Snyder on March 24, 2010, 09:38:38 am

Wow Jamie, that is awesome. Beside being long it is narrow.

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Post by: jamie on March 24, 2010, 05:34:23 pm

Thank you. Cleaned up this one. Redid the tip. Its now more of a lance. Just about finished up two others I started. A little bigger and scary thin. Ill post em when I clean em up. Peace

Title: Re: pucker factor
Post by: Hardawaypoints on March 24, 2010, 11:05:07 pm

Quote from: Saw Filer on March 23, 2010, 10:38:08 am

I'd have had 5 hunting points by the time I finished that one!  Good one ;)

I'd have three hunting points and a bigger pile of chips by the time I finished.

Real Nice work.

Jim