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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Wolfmanjack on March 30, 2019, 03:43:01 pm

Title: Citronelle dagger!
Post by: Wolfmanjack on March 30, 2019, 03:43:01 pm

(https://imgur.com/a/wjPndUc)

I had an aha moment yesterday and figured out how to pressure flake.  At least a little ways.  It seems to take an awful lot of inward pressure that I wasn’t using previously.  Anyways, I was able to fashion this dagger today.  I know it’s not to the standards of most on this site but I am pretty proud of this one.

Title: Re: Citronelle dagger!
Post by: Wolfmanjack on March 30, 2019, 03:44:31 pm

(https://i.imgur.com/oQJnOZo.jpg)

Title: Re: Citronelle dagger!
Post by: Deerhunter21 on March 30, 2019, 06:58:56 pm

Nice man!

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Post by: Hawkdancer on March 30, 2019, 09:18:26 pm

Aha!  The telltale knappers finger wraps!  Blade looks functional!
Hawkdancer

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Post by: bjrogg on March 31, 2019, 07:17:53 am

Nice work. Keep it up.
Bjrogg

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Post by: RickB on March 31, 2019, 08:00:14 am

Nice work - it will cut.

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Post by: 1442 on March 31, 2019, 09:50:02 pm

looking good
that's a heck of a piece of citronelle

Title: Re: Citronelle dagger!
Post by: Wolfmanjack on April 01, 2019, 10:12:55 am

It was a skinny flat piece of citronelle.  The blade in basically unifaced and still has most of the cortex on the opposite side.  It is very sharp with the serrations.