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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: aaron on June 03, 2014, 09:20:55 pm

Title: obsidian knife with elk rib handle
Post by: aaron on June 03, 2014, 09:20:55 pm

Made this one for a friend- Riley Dacite , elk rib, and dogbane.
Thanks to Ed Brooks for the rib!

Title: Re: obsidian knife with elk rib handle
Post by: Tower on June 03, 2014, 10:01:22 pm

That sweeeet!

Title: Re: obsidian knife with elk rib handle
Post by: flungonin on June 03, 2014, 10:11:45 pm

 :)Awesome

Title: Re: obsidian knife with elk rib handle
Post by: Zuma on June 03, 2014, 10:18:45 pm

Piano keys.
Very nice knife.
I like me some dacite.
Zuma

Title: Re: obsidian knife with elk rib handle
Post by: mullet on June 04, 2014, 09:13:38 am

That's a good one. :)

Title: Re: obsidian knife with elk rib handle
Post by: cowboy on June 04, 2014, 09:43:03 am

Y'all are makin me wanna build some knives! Another good one!

Title: Re: obsidian knife with elk rib handle
Post by: Knapper on June 04, 2014, 01:03:34 pm

Dead on!
Knapper

Title: Re: obsidian knife with elk rib handle
Post by: Dalton Knapper on June 04, 2014, 01:36:47 pm

It's hard to get a knife to look authentic, but you nailed it. Love the rib and lashings (and the knapping is great too!)

Title: Re: obsidian knife with elk rib handle
Post by: aaron on June 04, 2014, 10:20:28 pm

thanks everyone! The hardest part was getting the blade thin enough. I am not much of a pressure flaker, so I had an inordinate number of passes i had to make to get it thin. I started with a spall, and had hoped to percussion thin it , but when I got the elk ribs I realized that they were danged thin. So I used my ishi stick and ended up with several overshots during the process. . The cordage I made myself- the blade wrap being only 1/32th or less. The wrist thong is 3/16. I usually put the wrist thong hole (did i just say "thong hole"?) nearer to the center of the hole, but my friend requested it like this. He wanted me to copy a knife he had that was stolen. the guy who gave him the original knife was the guy from "Dual survivor" (dont know name, never saw the show). apparently the original had a bassalt blade- I tell you, if that guy could knap a bassalt blade thin enough to fit in an elk rib, my hat is off to him!

Title: Re: obsidian knife with elk rib handle
Post by: Trapper Rob on June 04, 2014, 11:29:11 pm

Sharp looking knife.

Title: Re: obsidian knife with elk rib handle
Post by: TRACY on June 05, 2014, 06:00:10 am

Nice work aaron!

Tracy