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Post by wtrfwlr on Jun 18, 2012 19:42:54 GMT -7
I have always wanted to try and do this. So today I went to the hardware store up the street and bought a little piece of #4 Copper ground wire and made a flaking tool with a Maple handle. I found a beer bottle on the roadside on the way back and this is what I ended up with. I know it has a lot of mistakes but for never even attempted this I think it's pretty good.   |
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Post by thywar on Jun 18, 2012 19:59:46 GMT -7
I think that's just damn good.. and well done there wtrfwlr.. well done
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Post by swamprat1 on Jun 18, 2012 20:44:45 GMT -7
Looks awfully good to me.
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Post by kutkota on Jun 18, 2012 20:52:15 GMT -7
looks good. Might have to try my hand at that some time before school kicks my butt again.
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Post by sirderrin on Jun 18, 2012 21:51:19 GMT -7
That doesn't look like first attempt......very good....  |
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Post by woodyz on Jun 18, 2012 21:52:43 GMT -7
I like it.
So it is a piece of glass from a broken beer bottle and it flaked under pressure from the copper as the leather flexed under it? Or was the leather just to keep from being cut as you held it?
Did you wrist twist chip it or strike it?
Have you tried the same technique with flint or churt?
Good job!
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Post by wtrfwlr on Jun 18, 2012 22:29:19 GMT -7
Thanks everyone.
And yep, that was my very first time I ever tried to chip out anything.
That piece is just the bottom out of a brown beer bottle. The leather protects my hands and my leg that I rest the glass on. I both struck it and pressure flaked the shape and edges.
I'm practicing on the glass until I figure out how this really works and then I'll try my hand at some flint stone that I have.
Thanks for the replies and questions, I have no idea what I am dong with this but it's pretty fun so far.
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Post by sirderrin on Jun 18, 2012 22:31:49 GMT -7
perhaps you have a natural affinity for the process......  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2012 23:50:30 GMT -7
Very well done...are you going to try some with flint? You know if you heat treat flint with fire, it changes the structure and makes the chips come off smaller and sharper and finer...Look forward to seeing more.
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Post by wtrfwlr on Jun 19, 2012 0:12:18 GMT -7
Very well done...are you going to try some with flint? You know if you heat treat flint with fire, it changes the structure and makes the chips come off smaller and sharper and finer...Look forward to seeing more. Thank You for the nice compliment Dink. Yes my goal is to make proper primitive arrowheads. I have a very nice long bow that I made out of Osage. I also have the arrowshafts, flecthings (from my turkeys), Bowstring, and quiver all made by me. So all I need to complete my native Indian setup is the points. I am using the glass as practice and to teach me how the flaking process works. It is also providing me with the opportunity to build all of my tools. I have much to do. I still need to build the antler percussion tool, a hammerstone/abraber, Ishi stick for flaking and fashion some of the deer leather that I have already brain tanned for proper lap and hand guards. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2012 0:21:15 GMT -7
Maybe when you get it all set up, you can do a video onhow to make a point like this, even with the glass...it is something many of us would find very useful...including me.
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Post by Redneckidokie on Jun 19, 2012 1:49:59 GMT -7
That is impressive duckster. Stay with it. I have wanted to get into knapping for years, but seem to find too many reasons not to. I guess having forty other hobbies could be why.  |
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Post by oldcoothillbilly on Jun 19, 2012 4:10:41 GMT -7
Nice work! Hey, ain't nothin wrong with makin em outa glass, them barley pop containers er free an a near unlimited supply! Plus, they look perty neat.
Keep workin at it friend, a good skill ta have an a enjoyable one to.
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Post by Dennis on Jun 19, 2012 4:15:16 GMT -7
You done good my friend.
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Post by northernbc on Jun 19, 2012 6:35:39 GMT -7
good job man, so when you head out fishing there will be a good excuse to take a 12 pack of arrow heads with you....
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