Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Jimbob on August 27, 2011, 07:38:28 pm
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Dont know if this has already been done but I have yet to come across it so here it is. I was sitting at work pressure flakeing under the desk in between people walking in and out of the door when it occured to me that maybe I have become addicted to this. Then I thought I cant be the only one so I turn to my PA friends with this. Ill start the first one and lets see where it goes.
You know your addicted to flint knapping when...........
1. You secretly knap under your desk at work.
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...when road cuts become places of awe and wonder.
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When you are on vacation and looking at the rocks in the planter at the motel. Then grab a few while your wife isn't looking.
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Been known to pressure flake in the bathroom :o
Tracy
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when company shows up and you run to show them your latest points...
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Eating 4 days a week at First Choice BBQ in Pasadena, Texas just to snatch good rock out of their landscaping arrangement.
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when PA's flint knapping page is your home page and your desk top is a pic of all your tools and spalls.
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Ya wake up early one morning. Pack the heavy canvas pack & small rock bar drive 1/2 ways across TX to a little known river crossing. Spend hours in 100 plus degree sun looking for a rock. After hours & a truck load of it ,we still hate to leave because you know there is at least one more primo material that has been overlooked. Oh and love every minute of it ! Man I can't wait to go again ! WAH HOOOO! ROCK RUN! We'll take my truck!
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When you check this forum 4-5 times a day just to see if any new points have been posted.
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rock nerds rock ;D
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when you turn the defroster on in your truck and shards of chert fly out
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LOL! That actually happens to me.
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When you think when Mount St. Helens blew her top as favor from God as the melt off washed out all those creek beds to expose the treasures! A/Ho Joe
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When you throw you're wife out in the yard and make her retrieve you're rock that she put in her flower bed. I had to find somewhere else to eat supper for a few days after that little stunt.Ron
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When you are giving your order at the Taco Bell drive thru and getting a couple of additional landscaping rocks prioir to the pick-up window
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When you start missing strikes on your fly because your too busy looking at the creek bed! ;D
.....lost a big brooky to a metabasalt hammerstone once.....
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Good stuff, Keep'em coming.
8)
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You get permission to gather rock on a man's property and surprise by being there bright & early the next morning.
You carry rock hammers, prybars, a pack, and some knapping tools in your truck just in case.
Jim
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this is good stuff. ;D
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While waiting for the gym to open you sit down in the hallway and do a little knapping with your tools and some rocks that you always carry around in a bag in your cooler with your lunch. Or while you are waiting for a business to open after lunch you sit in your car with the door open and do some pressure flaking in the parking lot.
Bushman
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At thanksgiving people comment about the sand on the turkey you cooked in the roaster.
VB
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HA, HA, HA, HA!!! ;D ;D ;D You guys are crackin' me up. I was flaking in the grocery parking lot yesterday while my wife went in, I got in trouble for "letting" the kids get into her purse and turn/press all the knobs. All I could say was, " Look how I got that thinned out there". ;D I was happy!!
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your kids know to tell you when the light turns green so you stop setting up platforms.
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When your given a random chance to go harvest some free rock and all you have is one 5 gallon bucket and well...that buckets just not enough....so you grab your kids big ole diaper bag and empty it out and sling it over your shoulder and fill it and the bucket over the brim...lol :laugh:
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One more from me........when you read that Taco Bell may have material around their drive thru and you decide to drive thru even though your not buying anything. No luck @ this Taco Bell... :( ::)
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You make friends with fellas on the catfishing forum that are from potential chert hotspots.
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When you look at a rock, or preform with the same mindset a battle hardened General looks at a map. Determining how to annihilate the stones mass with little or no casualties.
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tower, that was poetic
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when your flower beds and landscape are debutage piles.
Bone pile
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When you look at a rock, or preform with the same mindset a battle hardened General looks at a map. Determining how to annihilate the stones mass with little or no casualties.
Now that is beautiful
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when your brother gets cut from a shard of obsidian sticking into his shoe while walking through your room( the scary thing is i walk barefoot in there :o)
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When your two year old daughter picks up any rock from any place and sits right down and tries to make a preform, using her sippy cup as a bopper.
Mark
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When sales reps come into you're shop and bring you rocks that might be knappable hoping you'll like the rock and buy whatever they're selling.
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... you consider leaving the just-finished point in your pocket as a tip for the waitress at the local greasy spoon.
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She must a been a heck of a server...or a real looker. :-[
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When I'm knapping and add a little color to the stone, no big deal. But when the wife stepped on a flake in the living room and added color to the carpet (twice) she thought it was a big deal. I guess she isn't addicted!
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When you lie in bed at night . Next to a beautiful redhead in scant clothing. All that enters your mind are possible solutions & new approaches to remove or prevent some of your most troublesome knapping problems. Now that I think about it I'm not addicted, I'm just plain stupid!
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having 2 fractured ribs and still knapping
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yeah tower buddy, theres a couple things i like more than knapping. ;D
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When you were spalling out some coral to heat treat and you drive a piece deep into the palm of your hand. Your hand won't close or quit bleeding so you stuff a rag in the hole and grab a thick piece of leather so you can cushion it so you can finish.
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When your wife refers to your work shop as "the other woman"
(posted by "Commadore's" wife)
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I was trying to come up with something else but the red in bed took the prize man that was just wrong.
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I was trying to come up with something else but the red in bed took the prize man that was just wrong.
after a while, it seems much easier to score with the rock than the women...er should i say womAn...it hasn't always been that way though
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Justin, it got too easy and you let yourself go :o ;D ;) Can't take a woman for granted anymore then a good piece of Candy rock. 8)
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When you know you should be sleeping because you have to work third shift that night and your still out on the porch pressure flaking until 3pm. Man Im tired.
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When it occurs to you that Knapping & fueling (gas vapors)) your pickup & might have sever ramifications! So you move to the tailgate & continue.
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When you are 2000 miles away at the Tenn. Classic and your wife invites all your friends over to help move your knapping pit with the help of a tractor simply because it's starting to block the steps to the back porch. And she knows that you enjoy it enough, that she makes a new pit complete with boarders, chair and shade canopy. Did I mention I love my wife ;D She didn't even let on while I was at the truck stop in Utah telling her that I was gathering some more rock
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When you hope your wife will read this post and do the same for you. Guess I need to stop sweeping off the porch, eh..I don't think that will work either. Two Thumbs Up to Keenan's wife.
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;D ;D
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You for sure have a "Keeper", Keenan. ;D
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When you are 2000 miles away at the Tenn. Classic and your wife invites all your friends over to help move your knapping pit with the help of a tractor simply because it's starting to block the steps to the back porch. And she knows that you enjoy it enough, that she makes a new pit complete with boarders, chair and shade canopy. Did I mention I love my wife ;D She didn't even let on while I was at the truck stop in Utah telling her that I was gathering some more rock
so...... where do you find one of those ::)
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when you go to Knapp outside, exposed to the elements no matter what the weather is or the temperature. Or is that just being crazy?
Bushman
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Or when you Knapp by moon light because you are almost done the blade you are working on and you really want to get it done.
Bushman
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When your always kicking every rock you walk across even when your sure it's only gravel.
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*when you convert your guest bedroom into a knapping room*
*when you get distracted blood trailing a deer when the trail leads you across a creek in TN*
I'm sure I'll think of more. I cant believe i missed this thread too funny and so true i can relate to about half the post :)
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When you refuse the idea of removing the stone from the bed of your truck. Instead you opt to rent a U-haul trailer to move a freezer given to you. Really , seriously hun, U- haul is only $25 a day in town. NO NEED to clean the bed of the truck! Them words got me in trouble!
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When you refuse the idea of removing the stone from the bed of your truck. Instead you opt to rent a U-haul trailer to move a freezer given to you. Really , seriously hun, U- haul is only $25 a day in town. NO NEED to clean the bed of the truck! Them words got me in trouble!
Haha, thats a good one! I keep getting hassled about all the rocks on the back porch. By the time we get ready to move, all my rocks are going to need their own trip.
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When you are giving your order at the Taco Bell drive thru and getting a couple of additional landscaping rocks prioir to the pick-up window
I did this at a taco bell in st louis a couple week ago!
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1st Choice BBQ in Pasadena, Texas. Some nice, big Perdanales and Glassy Chert in the landscaping. >:D Always got a parking spot away from the window ;D Try their Loaded Potato, too. ;)
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I'm addicted to the addicted thread!! I'd stop traffic for a rock that MIGHT be knappable!
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can you imagine if pavement was knappable
>:D
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can you imagine if pavement was knappable
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;DGood one. Yes, I can imagine. Hmm ::) >:D
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There would be a lot of flat tires!
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who says it isnt . just gotta swing harder >:D
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....when you wake early and the first thing you do is go to the computer and check out Primitave Archer. rick B
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When walking through your back yard sounds like shoveling broken glass.
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When you keep checking here to see what the symptoms are.
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jamie, i ;Dgot a 4lb sledge hammer for forging, would that work
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It's addicting? Ohh crap now you tell me!!!!!
Bone pile ::)
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when you plan your vacaction and get a room at the hotel with all the nice landscape rock, and take your knapping tools along and set up a pit on the hotel balcony. It was pretty nice overlooking the riverwalk in san antonio while knapping. They had full cobbles and nice flakes that all you have to do is presure flake. All of it was rootbeer saw it on the last trip there.. I will never stay anywere else.
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When a debitage flake punctures through the tread of a 10 ply tire at work & all you can say is WOW, see I told you so! It happened to me & cost me almost 200. I still knap at work!!!! I just can't let this thread get lost!
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Ouch, 200 bucks!! What did your boss say?
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I'm given a truck allowance. It's my truck. You would think I learned a lesson. Guess I'm addicted !
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It's not such a bad thing to be addicted to though :)
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When you watch video after video on youtube just to see how you can improve your technique, or when you carry a point around in your pocket and pull it out from time to time just to admire or study it.
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When you say to yourself, "The blood will stop soon, I'll just finish getting this ridge off then go see about a bandage"
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When your wife gets a chunk of obsidian stuck in her foot from walking across the livingroom. Ill never knap inside again..... I learnt my lesson lol
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When its a balmy -20c Canadian morning and ur heaterless knapping session is ended not by cold fingers and toes but by the blood on ur winter coat reavealing a tiny slit in ur finger that is producing a steady drip. :)
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When your wife gets a chunk of obsidian stuck in her foot from walking across the livingroom. Ill never knap inside again..... I learnt my lesson lol
I knap outside and mine still managed to get a piece in her foot walking through the kitchen.
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When you find it is the only hing that holds your A.D.D atintion for more than a few minutes..."Hunny I did not realize I was out here knapping for five hours instead of cleaning the garage". ::)
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When you know you've had to many beers but you broke all the bottle bottoms and keep drinking cause you need more...... Its kind of an endless cycle... the more you drink more likely to snap it. the more you snap the more you drink. When i first started this was the case lol
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when you've posted more than one time on this thread. >:D
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So since we are hoplessly addicted to busting rocks, should we start goin to meetings? Knappers Anonymous??
Hello, Im Jimmy and Im addicted to flintknapping.
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No, it's "Hello I'm Jimmy and I'm a Knappaholic...." ;D ;D
George
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When you take 3 trips to the dollar store in one day just to buy those $1 jars that have a nice glass bottom on them. aha i do this way to often..... cant wait until the creeks open up
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I am so glad to see that others have had the same problem.... Wife stepping on obidian flake in the living room. That little problem almost got me hurt!
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When you look up from knapping & are eye to eye with the VP of the company & all you can say is " Hey, you play with your I phone. I play with rocks. The belts are turning & you are making money". He smiled & laughed!
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...when someone makes fun of your stone tipped arrows and you're actually offended.....so you shoot him with it! I actually did that to a kid many years ago. I still have that arrow....and the stone point is still perfectly intact!! YEAH!!! >:D >:D >:D
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That's pretty good Billy.
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when youve been waiting for a 20+ lb package of rocks to come in the mail.(i havent even really knapped properly yet!)
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LOL, glad to see this thread is still going.
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When you go outside at 10 am to see if the grass is dry enough to mow.........decide to knap a point or two while it dries a little more. Second time you slam you bopper into your thigh because its too dark to see your platform you go back inside.
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When you try to convince your mailman that is actually a 20 pound box of rocks >:D
Or when your fingers get damage to the point that they are numb and bloodless yet you believe you can persevere to a perfect point you might be an addict ;)
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You know your addicted when your wife says the kids are asleep are you coming to bed & you tell her as soon as I finish this point.
Rob