Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: 1442 on January 01, 2019, 08:51:01 pm
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ere's two pieces of gravel I worked on.
They both had issues that required to be worked to one side and where pretty tough material but I enjoyed every flake.
Over the summer I had a broke collar bone and hurt wrists and couldn't knap for a while and I'm just now getting my percussion swing back to where I'm comfortable and semi confident doing it.
I also got to hit the gravel pile at the landscape supply and brought home a few more pieces.
Happy New Year!
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here you can see that I put a strong bevel down each side and will swap from direct to indirect to get the cortex off the second side
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then finished it with pressure
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here's #2
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see that one side looks pretty good
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I used indirect on the last side again then pressure flaked and notched it
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I'm gonna post this little one in here too while I'm posting.
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even this baby gravel had two major cracks that cause me to loose size on it
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oops! forgot the pics
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Very impressive 1442. That looks like some very challenging stuff you wrangled those points out of.
Bjrogg
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Friends don't let friends knap landscape rock, lol. BJ that rock is in front of every restaurant in San Antonio. I would pick one up and Chris would make me put it back. Kudos to 1442 for making nice points and blades out of that stuff.
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Thanks
The texture looks horrible in pictures but these pieces flake pretty good once you get below the cracks.
I'm fixin to go out and knap a little bit and I will do something other than gravel for a change, maybe.
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You’ve still got it. I have one of your trade points. I turned it sideways once & it disappeared .
Love seeing what you can do too that bull gravel.
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Thanks a lot y'all. This is having fun to me, and stopping to take pictures really helps me to knap better than if I just sit down and knap too fast.
Tower,
I think you are referring to a brownish colored triangle shaped blade that I just kept working on with indirect percussion on a 3/8" copper rod until there just wasn't much left of it. I expected it to break with every hit towards the end but it never did.
I even videoed the making of that blade from start to finish and was gonna put it on you tube but have held off until I learn to edit out a lot of boring time spent beveling the edges and stuff. The video is like at least an hour and a half and I did a lot of talking about what I was doing too that sounds not to good.
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1442 I'd like to watch you sir. I'd like to listen to you explain to.
Bjrogg
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bjrogg
just for you I charged the battery and bungee corded the camera to a tripod and filmed me knapping,
It will put you to sleep
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here's what I made while filming
This first one could be called disasterous execution, and I was nervous
made lots of mistakes that caused it to be way smaller than it should have been
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This was #2
same description as #1 pretty much but finished up better than #1
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#3
This was a piece of gravel and is all direct percussion up to this point.
By now I'm getting used to the camera being so close and I'm not as nervous as I was.
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Make sure you post a link 1442. I'll watch when I get time.
Bjrogg
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Well!
My computer is overflowing gigabytes and I don't have room to put the videos on it to upload to you tube.
I got too many vids on it already that I need to upload I guess, but I don't even knap like that anymore hardly.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQvZDRnhyiF2KNmG6__arA
anyway, here's a link to my youtube channel. It has some long boring videos of me reducing down a couple rocks with no real direction to it and making some fish hooks too.
Nowadays I try to plan what I want to do with a rock before I start knapping it, and I use an abrader way more than I did in those vids.
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I managed to upload the video of percussion knapping the piece of gravel
here's the links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXpyAipygfU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGcaF-DtB1Q&t=6s