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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: 1442 on June 04, 2019, 11:10:03 pm

Title: Mastadon hunter
Post by: 1442 on June 04, 2019, 11:10:03 pm

Cumberland point made of Pedernales.
The small rock is a piece of gravel with a fossil looking inclusion

Title: Re: Mastadon hunter
Post by: 1442 on June 05, 2019, 11:10:49 am

It's been raining at 1" per hour here for the last four hours so I run out to get the wife's umbrella out of her truck for her and decide it would be best for me to get out of the rain and knap something. :KN

Been practicing indirect with a ishi stick across top of the leg and a 3/16" copper bit, hitting it with a osage baton about 1-1/2" round. It sure does make nice thinning flakes.

Title: Re: Mastadon hunter
Post by: Outbackbob48 on June 05, 2019, 02:37:32 pm

Cumberlands  are one of my favorites, love the look of a good cumby. Bob

Title: Re: Mastadon hunter
Post by: ohma2 on June 06, 2019, 08:05:38 am

Good lookin points as usual.

Title: Re: Mastadon hunter
Post by: Tower on June 06, 2019, 04:45:26 pm

Gorgeous points.    I’ve never attempted a Cumberland.... I’m too chicken. 
Love the black in the stone.  Is it bull gravel?

Title: Re: Mastadon hunter
Post by: 1442 on June 06, 2019, 09:45:21 pm

thanks for the nice comments
That piece of gravel is citronele and small, like 1-3/4" long.
Tower, I think a Cumberland would be pretty easy for you with a solberger jig.
I know you knap very good and you could make a preform that would flute so good and easy with a solberger jig. You should try it.
Then come to Niblets bluff knap in at the end of October where a lot of fluting with solberger jigs take place and bring Sasquach with ya. ;)

Title: Re: Mastadon hunter
Post by: Tower on June 07, 2019, 07:21:56 am

Maybe we can work that out

Title: Re: Mastadon hunter
Post by: Deerhunter21 on June 07, 2019, 10:01:21 am

how do you drive thinning flakes with a pressure flaker. I can never do it right!

Title: Re: Mastadon hunter
Post by: Wally44 on June 11, 2019, 03:02:23 pm

That looks great r you gonna hunt mastodons with it now 😆

Title: Re: Mastadon hunter
Post by: 1442 on June 11, 2019, 08:58:10 pm

Tower, I hope it works out and y'all come on down here to the knap in.

Deerhunter, I point my flaker right in line with where I want the flake to go and apply a lot of pressure with my legs then pop the flake with a downward force. The platform needs to be below center and strong enough to support a lot of pressure before  the flake is popped loose.
I will take some pics of platforms, flaker alignment, flake spacing and anything else that I can get a pic of that will help explain and answer your question. I just can't explainit.

Thanks Wally44. I already kilt a mastodon with it. Then I woke up and had to get ready to go to work ???