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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: chub83 on September 09, 2012, 11:29:44 am
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Ok Guys,
I am new to flintknapping I went to flint ridge and bought a lil kit and it had a buch of flakes I guess you would call em alot of really thick stuff (bout 3/4 of a inch tapered to paper thin I am staring to get good shapes just cant thin the really thick parts down without making the pieces to small to work any tips on what i can do I was thinking about getting some raw rock? maybe? Keep in mind I am a week old rookie. I love to do it the little time I have done it. I will sit and knapp for hours and if the point breaks i move on and try another my wife just comes out and shakes her head. Wow did I just ramble on My question is what size and kind of rock or material would be good to start with (I've tried glass I can work it well) but want to make it as authentic as I can would eventually like to hunt with em. I know this is a timely proccess and love just getting the basics down. The Knapping bug got me :o!!!!
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Welcome amigo ! The bug is what it is.Check out you tube for techniques and stay tuned to this channel,you'll get all the help you can stand. ' Frank
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thanks where is a good place to get rock I live in western pa
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Sounds hauntingly familiar several years ago. My wife shook her head one too many times and recently started joining me in the pit >:D
Not sure about rock in PA, but keep going west into OH and you should be into some.
Welcome aboard!
Tracy
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Chub, I,m also from NW Penna. I get alot of my rock at knapins or from differnt online sites. I,m from Waterford, just south of Erie, maybe we can get togeather an do a little knappin. Later Bob
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my wife says she will do a lot with me but sitting on a stump busting rocks up is not her thing!!! ;D
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Welcome to the addiction. Don't worry your wife will get involved the first time you ask her to put a rock from the local steak house in her purse. Knapping is a very satisfying hobby. It does from time to time require a blood letting sacrifice. Most knappers are unaware it is coming, & don't regret the loss.
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lol not to worried bout her shes great lets me do what i want. But back to the flint I have a piece stuck in me as we speak gonna start surgery here in a few minutes I love making something outta nothing that is what got me hooked on knapping I'm still at the point that when I'm done it looks like a deformed arrowhead well maybe a rock that if you look at it with your head turned right and tongue held right it looks like an arrowhead but anyway it's rewarding and fun.