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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: jamie on October 14, 2011, 08:26:33 am

Title: hate obsidian ,but damn!!
Post by: jamie on October 14, 2011, 08:26:33 am

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/coyotebow/knapping/302490_2268326505079_1156062854_32322843_1779315692_n.jpg)

Title: Re: hate obsidian ,but damn!!
Post by: gstoneberg on October 14, 2011, 09:03:04 am

Wow!

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Post by: blackhawk on October 14, 2011, 09:50:22 am

Awesome blade. Did you by chance do that with abo tools?

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Post by: Tower on October 14, 2011, 12:01:19 pm

That is sweet! Very nice blade!  Put a handle on it & place it on a mantle.

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Post by: YosemiteBen on October 14, 2011, 01:44:33 pm

HMMM?!?!?!  Since Yesterday morning I am unable to see any of the pics you all are posting. I do not know if it is my computer or PA, but since some of you are seeing the pics I just don't know.

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Post by: CherokeeKC on October 14, 2011, 01:59:55 pm

Might be the craziest, prettiest piece of obsidian iv seen!  Nice!!

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Post by: bowtarist on October 14, 2011, 03:23:57 pm

Quote from: gstoneberg on October 14, 2011, 09:03:04 am

Wow!

dido!!  That's SWEET!!

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Post by: HoBow on October 14, 2011, 06:32:52 pm

 :o Nice job!

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Post by: jamie on October 14, 2011, 10:02:18 pm

thanks guys. as i worked this down i started seeing the different colors and translucency. definitely the prettiest piece of obsidian ive ever seen.

black hawk this was abo. mostly hard hammer but i switched to a n antler billet as it got thin, then some tine work.

tower the only reason i do obsidian work is because it sells. the knife maker i do blades for has had a mook knife i did for him with purple, red and yellow bands. he has had it at every show hes done and it wont sell. every piece of obsidian i give him goes that weekend. i could make a twelve inch rhyolite solutrean and nobody will like it. but they love the shiny obsidian. im just sick of bleeding from the stuff

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Post by: YosemiteBen on October 14, 2011, 10:39:43 pm

You got to talk nice to it. It is almost all that I use. I don't get bad cuts from it often.

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Post by: Lee Slikkers on October 15, 2011, 12:18:28 am

Wonderful piece!!!  Abo tools Mordred....not that it matters as it is one very usably piece for skinning mammoth and such  >:D >:D

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Post by: AncientArcher76 on October 15, 2011, 01:07:30 am

Nice Jamie...if u dont like obsidian i would always take it..lol :o

Russ

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Post by: bubby on October 15, 2011, 07:25:53 am

man people are nuts not to buy any of your points, I work lots of obs but i like mook and root beer and all that material better, maybe cause i don't get much of it, Bub

Title: Re: hate obsidian ,but damn!!
Post by: Bill Skinner on October 17, 2011, 02:44:44 am

I have a love/hate relationship with obsidian, too.  Like you, I can make some great stuff but also like you, I cut the snot out of myself and I really hate digging for invisible flakes.  You can feel them when you push in or when the tip of the knife hits them but you can't see them.  Bill

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Post by: jamie on October 17, 2011, 07:58:40 am

exactly bill. its not the flakes its the dust.

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Post by: cowboy on October 17, 2011, 10:19:56 am

That's a biggun Jamie - nice!

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Post by: JackCrafty on October 17, 2011, 09:00:46 pm

Dang.  hmmmm... I may give in to the temptation soon...

Title: Re: hate obsidian ,but damn!!
Post by: soy on October 24, 2011, 01:26:16 am

I don't know who did a better job you or mother nature ...that thing is sweeeeet!!!