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Carl Goff




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PostPosted: Sun 17 Jan, 2010 5:31 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

There's a small box of arrow and spear heads sitting around here somewhere. I'll see if I can dig them up and post pictures.
Oh, East of sands and sunlit gulf, your blood is thin, your gods are few;
You could not break the Northern wolf and now the wolf has turned on you.
The fires that light the coasts of Spain fling shadows on the Eastern strand.
Master, your slave has come again with torch and axe in his right hand!
-Robert E. Howard
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Jerry Knox




Location: Palm Bay, Florida, USA
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PostPosted: Sun 17 Jan, 2010 7:40 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

I am a flintknapper. I have been making stone and glass tools for about 18 years now, though in the last five or so, I haven't really made anything. Here are a few of my best points and knives.

I'll post some more pictures in a minute.

What questions did you have about making stone tools in particular?



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Jerry Knox




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PostPosted: Sun 17 Jan, 2010 7:49 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Here are some of my earliest points, including the very first one I ever made (top left). They are all 1/8" thick shelf glass, which is a hard way to learn, but gives you all of the best habits for moving out into easier stuff later, plus it's really easy to find and cheap (free)!

You can also see the first big point that broke. I used to feel really bad about that one, until I got good enough to make better ones Laughing Out Loud As a side note, I didn't break it during knapping, I finished it and set it aside because I was so proud of it, and some guy sat on it!



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Jerry Knox




Location: Palm Bay, Florida, USA
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PostPosted: Sun 17 Jan, 2010 7:58 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Here's a detail of the daggers, and a picture of the dreaded Christmas Tree dart point!

I have a hand axe I made with percussion in about 20 minutes from a river cobble just to see if I could. I'll try to get a picture of it if you're interested in paleolithic tools.

I tend to prefer meso and neolithic bifacial tools for their beauty, and neolithic microlith technology for skin-a-moose practicality, but there's a certain appeal to the really old first-humans stuff too. It was the sort of thing that someone really depended on as his only tool, and without it he was cat food!



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R. Lassen




Location: Knoxville
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PostPosted: Sun 17 Jan, 2010 9:01 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Those are some great points, Mr. Knox. Did you use an Ishi stick for the shelf glass points? I've been meaning to get one of those. My current pressure flakers have gotten very worn out...
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Jerry Knox




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PostPosted: Sun 17 Jan, 2010 9:17 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Thanks! I learned from some great teachers.

I did not use an Ishi Stick, but I have one. I don't have enough control with it for glass, but it's very handy on tough agate or quartzite. I used what is called a "stokes tool" after its inventor, Jim Stokes. It looks like a trident set in a wide wood handle which is gripped from the side, then the tool is used between the knees a lot like an ishi stick, but with flake direction controlled with the wrist. The outer two prongs are used to pressure the flake, and the center prong is wood, and rests across the stone point to act as an angle guide. It is only useful for thinning, and standard pressure flakers must be used for shaping and edging the point.

If your tools are wearing out, I like to get the heavy gauge copper wire from the by-the-foot spools at the hardware store and retip my favorite handles rather than get new ones and have to reaquire all the blisters and calluses.
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