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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: cowboy on March 07, 2008, 08:44:45 pm
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The blizzard of 08 ;D. Course if your a true Texan and it snows you have to run out with the kids and build a snowman as fast as you can (law of the land :D). We got (they say) 8 to 9 inches here, but looked like 5 to 6 to me.
Got these huntin points built over last two days along with rescueing everyone that called for it - those fingers get to hurtin when their cold :)...
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Hey that snowman looks just like ya ;D Surprised ya even know how to build one :o ;D
Points are sweet Paul. And if the kids want more snow I can oblige ya ;)
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great points! and nice snowman :)
i got 12" of snow by me but alot of it melted today
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Cowboy.....join the Club.....I like the White Stuff....and We dont get enough of it for my Tastes!!!
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Hi, Now they look like they can do the job! Thanks for showing them. ;D
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Hey Paul, nice snowman, man. :o Does she do the pointing and yelling on the snowman projects? ;D
Kind of unusual that you got the snow and we got nothing but cold air. I guess the gulf moisture stalled out.
Nice points too. I tried doing some knappin' last night while waiting to pick my daughters up from band practice. I know what you mean about cold hands. I finally had to quit because my fingers got numb and I don't think the school would appreciate me building a camp fire in the commons.
Otoe
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Nice chippin', and a most excellent snowman, too. :)
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Well thanks Dana, I'm flattered ;D. No thanks we don't need anymore snow :).. David, i'll get you some rocks boxed up and mailed as soon as I can find em :). That's more snow than i care to see from now on - had my garden in two weeks ago and a lot of it had sprouted, I'll check the damage here in a couple of days. She was kinda telling me how SHE was going to build that snowman while she was playing around with dogs Otoe - kids ::).
Thanks Steve - that's the most excellent snow we've had to build a snowman in the last fifteen years that I can recall ;D.
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you got snow down there and its raining in ct. whats wrong with this picture :) awesome points
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Global warming - gonna git us all ::) :-X.
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Dang, even the snow storms are big in Texas!....we have had more snow this winter here in Kansas than i can remember in the recent few years, although we do get our fair share in a normal season. Great looking points cowboy. you know, if i had the tools and had starting knapping when we had the big ice storm/power outage back in December, i would be so much further ahead than i am know....lol.
Bishop
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you live in Texas and got 5-6 inches of snow,hmmmm
i live in MN.and we haven't had a 5-6 inch snowfall yet this winter,i think we've only had about 20 inches total,and it was like 3-4 inches at a time only.
all my friends that have snowmobiles are p@#$ed off cause there isn't enough to ride on.lol
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I got up at 5:00 this morning and it was 58 degrees and raining. Now it's 34 and pouring snow. Gotta love March weather.
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Yep - This has turned into one of those freak years. Little more knappin..
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Dang Paul....thats great looking.....Whats it made of??? I can only hope that the Flint I got for you will make us even....It looks awesome ;D ;D
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Good Golly Paul! Thats some nice Knappin. Hey, I now know who to look for at the Classic.
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If I could operate a Crane as slick as you can knapp...I could write my own Ticket at any Construction Site....you are the Man!!!! :o :o
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Nice chipping Paul. Ya' gotta love Global Warming. ;D
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Yep David, just look for the worn out lookin guy spittin Copenhagen everywhere :D.
Thanks ya'll on the blade :), part of a trade. Yankee: That's made of Novaculite I bought from Missouri trading company. It's nice and easy to work, somewhere between this flint I've got and obsidian. Won't take a lot of abuse like hacking through leg joints and stuff, but fine for skinning and boning.
This global warming thing, hmm - I don't know. I'm kinda leaning toward old mother earth is just doing what she's been doing for millions of years :).
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That is going to lok so cool in that Mule Deer Antler Butt....with the Sinew wrapped around it....I doubt that I will use it.....just drool over it!!! Thanks again Paul.....
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Yep David, just look for the worn out lookin guy spittin Copenhagen everywhere
That might be me, though. ;D
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I want to know if that snowman will stop an arrow? :o Justin
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I thought about doin something like that Justin but dernit, it's too late now - the snow is all but gone. Next time it snows I'll test that out ;D.
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They won't. Trust me. ;D
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Hillbilly ....you been out slaughtering Snowmen with a Bent Stick and Flu Flu's????
Your Sick
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Beats whopping dead bovines with a go-devil! ;D Pat
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Beats whopping dead bovines with a go-devil! ;D Pat
OK ....you lost me there....a Go Devil ...back home is a Logging Sled....in Texas it used to be a big metal dart that they dropped down a Well to explode the Dynamite Charge to open the Formation up for the oil to come in......but I know that these definitions aren't what you are referring to!!!! ???
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Yankee, Around here a go-devil is a wood splitting maul. I was referring to another post where Hillbilly was referencing such a task...or the sound it would make. Pat
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Yankee, Around here a go-devil is a wood splitting maul. I was referring to another post where Hillbilly was referencing such a task...or the sound it would make. Pat
Bet that would make a Sick Sound!!!!
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Those arrowheads look good.I'd bind them on in a minute and start looking for meat. Frank
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Thanks Frank! those were for a trade, now I gotta make me a dozen :P.
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Pau is one Hell of a Knapper...should write a Build-A-Long Book...and make a fortune with them Skills!!
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Paul, As far as I am concerned those are about the perfect size and shape points for deer hunting. You are getting the hang of this knapping stuff! ;D Pat
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Man, I'll tell ya yankee - if I thought I could write my own book with lot's of pic's and make a mint, I'd be all over it ;D ;D. Their's so many out there already, just don't think I have anything different to show - oh well, keep buying those lottery tickets.
Thanks Pat: I'm starting to get the hang of a lot of things here lately :D - wish a big nest egg was one of em ;D.
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Those points are impressive cowboy!! What kinda flint and tools did you use for that batch? I like that novaculite knife you made too! If you don't put your skills down in a book, what about a build-along for PA? ;D
Thanks for sharin' Joe
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Thankee Joe :). Those are a mix of spalls I had in my bucket from Pedernales flint and some stuff I pick up in the Brazos river here about an hour from home. I've kinda toyed with the idea of maybe doing something for the magazine sometime, hmm ::)..
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You really need to Paul....it would be some good reading I bet.......