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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: iowabow on July 23, 2011, 02:28:35 pm

Title: banned from knapping
Post by: iowabow on July 23, 2011, 02:28:35 pm
My wife just banned knapping in the car.  However I am told I can nap.  I want to take poll- how many of you think that pressure flaking is an exceptable past time activity for a long drive as a passenger in my wife's car?
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: Tower on July 23, 2011, 03:08:30 pm
I don't see what her big problem is, the flakes vacuum up . At least that's what I told my wife when she woke up late one night & caught me knapping on the living room carpet. She got so angry. Now she calls knapping THE OTHER WOMAN. If you got my back in the living room I got your back in the car.
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: iowabow on July 23, 2011, 08:38:52 pm
Tower lol look at at how many views and not a word out of them lol at least I know who I can walk into a bar with.   :)
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: seabass on July 23, 2011, 09:01:47 pm
i can't knap yet,but i have chased a ring in the living room.can i come to the bar with you guys?i'll buy the first round if you teach me to knap.allright i'll buy the first five pitchers and some hot wings.
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: FlintWalker on July 23, 2011, 10:23:38 pm
Well I ain't skeert!  I don't see anything wrong with it as long as the flakes weren't hitting the driver.
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: jturkey on July 24, 2011, 02:47:37 am
i was about to ask if you were hitting her with the shards that come off or if you switched places and she stepped on one barefooted. if not i do not see a problem with it
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: bushman on July 24, 2011, 05:11:51 am
I don’t see a problem with knapping in the car or the living room. I have done it a few times, just got to clean up the evidence.
Bushman
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: jamie on July 24, 2011, 06:45:13 am
hell i do it while im driving  ;D
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: iowabow on July 24, 2011, 11:09:27 am
I read all the post to the wife and she laughed but still NO! Lol.
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: Tower on July 24, 2011, 11:36:30 am
Heck I know a bar down here that serves cold Shiner Bock . The owner of thr bar likes seeing what I make & asks me to demonstrate how I do it. 
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: Justin Snyder on July 24, 2011, 12:15:55 pm
I guess Ill play devils advocate. If you are knapping on a seat that she might have to sit on I can see why she doesn't allow it. My wife lets me knap in the living room. I put down a little tarp and vacuum when Im done and she is satisfied.
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: Hardawaypoints on July 24, 2011, 08:14:58 pm
I used to pressure rlake in the office, but got busted from all the dust, chips in my trashcan, and blood spots here & there.  I still knap at horse shows, but not in the vehicle.  It is a consuming hobby though.  Keep after it.

Jim
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: Prarie Bowyer on July 25, 2011, 02:55:41 am
See, this is what you don't understand.  Names and deeds aside, the "house" isn't your house . . . it's her "nest".  Nests are for cozy comfy snuggly things and activities . . . and egg laying (or the mamalian equilavent).  See our bird like mating ritual involves getting that deed to the space that will become the nest, then we are to only engage in activities that beautify said nest.  Of course the argument will be dressed up.  "Do you really want to live in S#%*T"? or my favorite "you can live like a hillbilly  . . . somewhere else".

And honestly that is fair enough.  I mean you never know when a suprise guest like the Prince of Whales and company is going to show up and there is this hillbilly idiot playing with rocks in the middle of the floor.  You just can't serve tea like that.  Won't happen.

It would be the same as stepping into your man cave 10 min before scheduled poker night to find that she thought it would be a great place to store in full display her life collection of dolls and fluffy animals . . . oh and the windows look better drapped in "salmon".  You just can't pretend to have testosterone in that enviroment .  Won't happen.

Joking aside the small sharp flakes will get between the carpet fibers and shorten it life or help tear a seat cover.

Funny how it changes right?  When I first started carving we lived in an apartment and a big carving project has us wading through chips and shavings for days.  Now I need a pike row to defend my right to leave a shaving on my bench over night.
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: iowabow on July 25, 2011, 10:36:59 am
That was fun to read. 
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: cracker on July 25, 2011, 10:52:34 am
Hey PB I feel you're pain. At my crib if I put a sack of gold bullion on the table, that doesn't go there and has to be moved immedietly or she'l fly around the room on her broom and shoot lightning bolts at me. Now if she puts a sack of putrid garbage on the end table that is where it belongs and it is not to be touched under penalty of broom and lightning bolts.Ron
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: triggerfinger on July 26, 2011, 02:16:11 am
the whole idea that anyone would so disrespect their wives car or the family home is disgusting and juvenile.  Were all grown adults and know there is a place for everyting and everything in its place.  And knapping in the house is just a good way to scratch the floors and ruin the........ok shes gone now.  Im with you guys, but please dont tell her.
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: JackCrafty on July 26, 2011, 08:01:31 pm
The way I knapp there would be flakes flying all over the place.  I don't go there.  Nope, I reserve my knapping to my car and the "outback". O:)

My version of "Broom and Lightning" is more like "I'll get ya later...you gotta sleep sometime...".
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: ordcorpdw on July 28, 2011, 03:40:31 am
Howdy, Im a new and have just been lurking for awhile but this is too funny.........I sat down this evening in the living room to get some practice in. No sooner than I get comfy I hear the car pull up. In my best 31 year old trying not to be caught like a 13 year old I bailed out the back door into the 110+ heat. What the heck none of my 3 daughters or wife keep their shoes on in the house. I'd get caught anyway. In the car? .......just get her safety glasses.
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: Bill Skinner on July 28, 2011, 03:53:35 pm
I'm glad I never met a real dumb woman and got maried.  Bill
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: SEMO_HUNTER on July 28, 2011, 04:23:57 pm
If your wife cuts her toenails in bed then I think you should be able to knap flint in the car or on the living room carpet, or even while your on the throne if you want to.
Just cause she doesn't like it don't mean you gotta listen to her, cmon man.........stand upright and pee like a dude!  8)


Then again you probably shouldn't listen to me cause I'm divorced...........Bwahaaa!!!  ;D ::) ???
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: jamie on July 28, 2011, 09:43:02 pm
knappin on the crapper is a bad idea =)
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: iowabow on July 29, 2011, 12:03:03 pm
Jamie- hmmmm I won't ask. 
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: AncientArcher76 on July 29, 2011, 06:04:02 pm
Yeah but can u just imagine hitting a bump a deer jump out or simply making a mistake and severing an artery...lol that would shorten the trip... but it could be the plan to do just that...then u continue knapping in the ER...

Russ
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: JustinNC on July 29, 2011, 07:00:56 pm
knappin on the crapper is a bad idea =)

couldnt imagine a flake to the taint
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: SEMO_HUNTER on July 29, 2011, 09:43:17 pm
That sounds like something the guys on Jackass would come up with. Put a bunch of obsidian flakes in a jock strap and make em run 3 quick laps around the house then do a belly flop into a plastic pool full of Isopropyl alcohol.......EeeeeOuch!!  :o :(
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: Tower on July 29, 2011, 10:00:50 pm
Them boys did some stupid things, but I don't think even they would tackle that stunt.
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: iowabow on July 30, 2011, 03:32:45 am
Think that a funny stunt them have knap in MY living room and see what kinda injuries they incur.
Title: Re: banned from knapping
Post by: Prarie Bowyer on August 02, 2011, 03:10:14 pm
The only knapping going on in my living room is minus the "k".