Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: 1442 on January 23, 2019, 06:20:33 am
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I finally got a new puter and Spectrum came out and redid all the connections on the cable wire.
My puter and internet is so fast now I'm considering wearing a helmet and seatbelt while on line until I get used to it.
Here's a pile of blades I've made and been waiting to haft them onto handles, and a few that got theire handles already, and a antler holder that hangs on the wall to display a knife or other stuff.
I've also made a few antler stands that sit on a flat surface to display knives , but I didn't have room to spread them out and get a pic yet.
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her's the holder tied together with sinew, some deer tracks on the antler burrs of some and the wall hanger.
I forgot to mention the bone handles are all deer leg bones
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Very nice work! I like the hoof marks!
Hawkdancer
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That's a whole lot of sweet blades waiting for some really nice handles 1442. Everything looks great.
Bjrogg
PS my old phone is getting pretty slow.
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Those blades all look great.
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awesome work.
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Very nice. You need some cholla,lol
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Thanks y'all
JEB, Id sure like to try some Cholla for handles. Still have a few sets of antlers and a bunch of leg bones to use.
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Wow! What a beautiful bunch of work 1442...
Don
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Great job on all those blades - thanks for sharing the photos.
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Thanks
I took the knives, antler stands, some points, blades hooks and this necklace display to a gun show this past weekend where I was invited to set up on a table for free and try to sell them to raise money to go to the silver river knap in in Florida.
I didn't work out too well though. I didn't sell enough to get out of town good so I may have to resort to the ol cardboard sign on the street corner or something to get to Florida.
Nobody even seemed interested in a necklace at all and that's what I thought would sell the best. Also being it was a gun show people looking at guns had them pointed at me from every direction the whole time and I did not like that.
Here's the necklace display. It's built like a hide stretched in a frame with a large deer antler on each end to hold it up verticle
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Very Nice display 1442. Kinda interesting how you attached points to necklaces. You are a talented knapper. People just have no idea what it takes to make that stuff. They always ask me how do you do that you grind it? Or you melt it.
I guess it's true. Don't bring a knife to a gun fight. Or show. Steel one probably would sell.
Bjrogg
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Very nice looking display. I know a guy that set up at a traditional archery shoot and couldn't give his necklaces away for $15.00 and this guy is a lights out knapper. Yet I went to Flintridge and sold almost every stone knife I brought and I am a so so knapper. It is a crap shoot for sure.
Folks don't have a clue on how much work there is to making this stuff.
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thanks for the kind words
It was an interesting experience. Some woman said EWWW! I don't like them teeth (leg bones), they creep me out.
I also had to listen about how people and dinosaurs where here at the same time and that wood don't take long to petrify because steel hammers have been found embedded in it and interesting stuff like that.
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Not sure where you are at but if close to Ohio, give the fall Flintridge knapin some thought. Rather inexpensive weekend, $20.00 camping and set up fee, more rock to buy than you can haul home and some great flint knappers sitting around. And on Saturday you will sell a lot of stuff.
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JEB
I'm 1,170 miles South of Flint Ridge on the Louisiana/Texas border right near the coast.
I'd like to go there but that's too far right now just like Florida,
Selling aint something that I much care for really. I'm more a trader or buyer.
Made another knife tonight, but the pics aren't showing up for some reason
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Dr. Dan Theus comes over from San Antonio every year. Great guy and outstanding knapper. Fredericksburg, Texas has a knap in that we have attended and that one is growing also. It will be a bit but I will get some cholla off to you later in the spring.
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One of these days I'll get my priorities in order and make it to some of those knap ins I hope.
No hurry on the Cholla and I hope yall's situation is going very well for your wife. I'm praying for y"all.
Heres the knife I mentioned, the pics decided to show up this morning so I could post them
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Just great stuff, 1442. That last knife is really something. Dan Theus...I think I spent time talking to him at Silver Springs. He's the one that did that Mayan reproduction? Amazing talent.
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Dan's a great guy! I really hope you get to Silver Glen, really like to meet you. And I don't think you will have any trouble selling those there.
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WOW, Beautiful work.
Pappy
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Thank Y'all
Dan is top notch knapper. I always spend extra time looking at his work on display at the knap ins. Then when I get to his cases with the coral points, I spend even more time in awe of his work and the work of the creator to make such beautiful material.
Mullet,
I'm not gonna make it there this year. The wife and I are planning to start building our first home within the next couple months and I think I should stay devoted to that more than anything else right now.
Next year though, I will make it for sure. I have a whole year to prepare for the trip, and when I do get there I am really looking forward to meeting you, and bone pile, and anybody else who is there, and knapping.
Oh man! I can't wait
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Fantastic displays and craftsmanship. John
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thanks John