Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Parnell on April 11, 2017, 02:23:18 pm
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Hi everyone. I've been figuring I should just start a general thread that I'll post my pictures to for general stuff I knock out and just add to it as I go.
Starting with this Flint Ridge point from yesterday evening! I really love working treated Ridge. Beautiful stuff. This point came from a broken chunky piece, so I'm real happy it turned out.
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That looks like a sharp edge!
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That one has hunter to written all over it
Bjrogg
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Yesterday evening's point. A type more Newnan? What do you guys think?
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I think they look good ! ' Frank
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Nice points
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They look real good. That first one looks like the edges are super sharp
I like the newman look too. I always wanted to make one but haven't yet.
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Kinda fun. I had a pretty good looking flake of that rough crap...I suppose rhyolite? Made a quick one yesterday.
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Beautiful points. That rhyolite looks like the rhyolite I have on my place in SE Missouri. Very hard rock, but the natives used it a lot.
Neal
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Points look great, Steve, so do the Collards.
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Thanks Eddie. What does well in the garden during the summer?
Little coral point last night.
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Nice points!
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Nice work. I can't say for your area, but here in South TX okra, tomatoes, corn, peas, beans, sweet potatoes, peanuts, squash, cucumbers, cantaloupes, watermelon and almost anything else you can think of does well. My garden is much smaller this year than usual. Been busy.
WA
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Down where you are at you should be able to grow some Pole beans, tomatos,and collards if you keep picking them . I'm getting ready to pick my collards for the third time tomorrow. Around July it is going to really get hot up here and will have to put the shade cloth on and water a lot.
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good looking points . okra,eggplants and peppers are my summer vegs
rog
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Thanks for the input on the garden, guys. Been enjoying it much more spending time out back under the overhang.
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This one is going on a shaft.
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Working on arrows - made pitch the other day with beeswax. It turned out very well. Beeswax adds a really nice consistency.
Could probably post this in the arrows section but I will when I'm done. Also weaving a quiver for them out of the palmetto growing in my yard. I'll post some pictures here...because they will hold my stone points!
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Here is some progress on the Palmetto quiver. Thinking of how I want to do this differently. I've twist the fronds into cordage and am thinking I'll just weave the cordage into the ribs. Rethinking the ribs too. I might use whole stalks and make it really hefty. Thinking about burying the ends of the stalks into the ground to make the initial frame then weaving the cordage in so as to make it easier?
Mom was over with me on Sunday morning as well. She is in late stage Parkinson's so it's getting tough for her to speak. Enjoying our time together.
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2 more.
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Looking good!
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Awesome work your doing there.
Thanks for posting it,
Your Mom looks happy,
Good stuff
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Alzheimer's is one of the cruelest diseases in the world. My 42 partner's wife died a few days from Alzheimer's disease. It was hard for anybody who knew her before Alzheimers to see what it did to her especially in the last few months. Love her all you can while you can.
WA
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Neurological disease is a special monster of it's own, for sure. Mom's form of Parkinson's is idiopathic in that she doesn't have the shakes but is losing her ability to speak and swallow. Her mind is 100% but she freezes and stares off into space and can't respond...but she knows whats happening. Tough stuff, eventually you lose the ability to swallow...
I get her over on weekends as much as possible. She was always big on environmental conservation work and loves digging in the dirt so just to spend an hour or two pruning the orchids and potted plants at the picnic table and getting out of the facility is a huge treat for her now.
Been busy as heck getting ready to leave for the TN on Tuesday!
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A few from TN and a Saturday point.
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Pressed thinning the base to carry the notches further. Gotta work on that. Snap. I'd started the notches a bit low and went back to work on them and that ear went. Oh well. Next!
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Really concentrating on thinning...then notching. It's time to improve.
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Better thickness photo...
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Lookin good man!
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This one hurt yesterday evening. I was really getting close to real thin and...snap! Uhhhh
Oh well, I'm getting closer to thin points and it'll make a fine hunting point once reshaped.
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Steve that's really good and thin. You're improving a lot.
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I know the feeling. The better I get the nicer they are when I break them. :o nice work sorry about your mom, I really miss mine. She passed 12 years ago and I still miss her.
Bjrogg of