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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: flecha on May 08, 2016, 05:07:30 pm

Title: Gunflints
Post by: flecha on May 08, 2016, 05:07:30 pm

I needed some for my flinter so I made some.

Title: Re: Gunflints
Post by: JW_Halverson on May 08, 2016, 06:11:48 pm

Dang!  Those look better than most I have gotten from Track of the Wolf or Dixie Gunworks in over a decade!

Title: Re: Gunflints
Post by: Zuma on May 08, 2016, 06:57:57 pm

Now that's where the name came from :)
Nice 8)
Zuma

Title: Re: Gunflints
Post by: PaulN/KS on May 08, 2016, 07:43:28 pm

Very nice indeed.

Title: Re: Gunflints
Post by: mullet on May 08, 2016, 09:48:24 pm

Those look good. Is that Georgetown?

Title: Re: Gunflints
Post by: Dalton Knapper on May 08, 2016, 10:26:47 pm

I've made a few hundred. Besides knowing how to knock off good blades (you can make them from any suitable flake), the key is to have a proper anvil to shape them. I do little to zero pressure flaking to knap one. The secret is to have a stump, 6X6, etc with a flat iron rod driven onto it. I like a 1/4 X 2" anvil rod. I then use a bopper to shape them with the flat side up. Works well. Congtats on some fine flints.