Flintknapping - Beginners

Made a Couple more points

feeds@yuku.com (lithic) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:40:47 GMT

I chipped these as well as a couple of teeth today.! Lol, To cold for this stuff.. The left point is made of coral & the other is Texas material..

Todays Efforts

feeds@yuku.com (MountainWalker) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:16:43 GMT

It's been about 6 weeks since I've really had a chance to do any knapping. So this a.m. I went out to my shop sat down and knapped. To tell ya the truth I think that the little break may have helped. Cause things seamed to go easier than normal for me??? Anyway, I turned out this point. I had a pretty bad step on one side and kept working the piece so it ended up narrower than what I wanted but I think it turned out decent.
I got the rock from a registered Obsidian quarry, but I...

Break from Practice

feeds@yuku.com (lithic) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:51:39 GMT

The cold wheather made me take a break from knapping for a week or so.. But for some reason, takeing a break always seems to help.. These was made from the flakes of some large bifaces I have laid away until I build more confidence in my knapping ability..
The little knife is deadly sharp! I cutt some half frozen venison into jery strips with it earlier today & it worked as well as any knife I have in the house..
The rnd piece was just a pressure flake practice piece, but...

books

feeds@yuku.com (wabbiter) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:04:40 GMT

can anyone recomend a book or books to get me started, i've never done it before,...thanx guys....mack

New obsidian points

feeds@yuku.com (bleedingarcher) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:58:48 GMT

I've been busy making points this week, and here are a couple I finished this weekend. My father-in-law was over yesterday and I helped him make his first arrow head. He had a great time doing it, and wants me to make him some tools so he can get started.

Travis

Suggestions for improveing

feeds@yuku.com (lithic) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:58:10 GMT

Latest but not so greatest.! Made from fort payne, it is 3-1/2" in length 1/4" thick..
Im not sure what is causeing me to take flakes so large I cant recover.. Is it the angle im useing, to much power or strikeing to deep? Suggestions for improveing this problem would be appreciated.

Thanks, Lithic

aluminum bopper

feeds@yuku.com (princetonBC) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:10:57 GMT

hey there.

i read somewhere on this website about people using aluminum for precussion working glass.

so i recently went to a scrap metal place and found this cool, ready-made, solid aluminum bopper

kinda neat huh? i just ground down the end that i hold to keep it from cutting my hand, and it was ready to go.

today I gave it a try on some TV glass i had...

Flintknapping class at Cahokia Mounds

feeds@yuku.com (megalithics) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:29:50 GMT

Here's the announcement for the class.
Larry will be presenting a beginner's flintknapping class, at Cahokia Mounds, on Sunday, January 3rd, 2010, from noon to 4 PM. Larry will furnish all tools and equipment but student's may furnish their own, if they wish. The fee will be $30.00 per person, ($25 per person with valid student ID or Cahokia Mounds volunteers) payable directly to Larry...

bog agate

feeds@yuku.com (princetonBC) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:00:21 GMT

Hi everyone

I found some neet material a month ago, here in Princeton B.C.

it's called bog agate and seems to work well... it's hard to pressure flake though

i made a pre-form out of it, but i was wondering if anyone had ever used this material... or...

a point i made this morning

feeds@yuku.com (princetonBC) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:53:21 GMT

Hi everyone, i'm new to paleoplanet and tought i'd upload a picture of one of my points

i've been knapping for a few months now, and just made myself an ishi stick a few days ago... man that helped a bunch

the point's made from a brown wine bottle i found the...

Just getting started

feeds@yuku.com (bleedingarcher) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:07:25 GMT

My first post!

I just started knapping early last summer, and here are a few new knives I've made. Comments are most welcome.

Travis
http://yfrog.com/0lknappedknives1j

Romancing the Cone

feeds@yuku.com (megalithics) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:48:47 GMT

Here's an beginner's flintknapping article I wrote for the Cahokian. I'll also place it in the tutorial section. Larry

http://flintknapper.com/Flintknapping.htm

Kannping tool Kit

feeds@yuku.com (Ravenson469) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:24:34 GMT

hey people I was thinking of asking for a Knapping tool kit for Christmas because I have always been interested in learning to Knap. If You where buying a tool kit who would you but it from?

Jeff

Original copper pressure flaker with better photos

feeds@yuku.com (megalithics) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:48:30 GMT

Here's a picture of an original copper pressure flaker found by Greg Perino, in the late 70's. It was found on the Hacker South site, in Illinois, along the Illinois River. I was there when it was found. Originally the antler handle was in one piece but it split in two once it dried out in the museum collection. It was found in close association with a Middle Woodland burial, in a small mound, on a bluff crest, away from the larger Hacker mound. It roughly dates to about 2,000...

Eastern NC knappers?

feeds@yuku.com (yoyo) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:05:14 GMT

Hi, I am interested in learning the art of knapping and was wondering in there are any knappers from eastern NC area?

Dumb beginner question about flint

feeds@yuku.com (applateau) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:05:23 GMT

I just came back with an embarrassing load of flint from Nethers farm in Flint Ridge, Ohio. As I am sitting here cleaning the dirt from it, I have noticed that some of the surface reddish color seems to be more like clay and is coming off. I can recognise the yellowish clay for what it is. Is that red stuff just hardened clay? I didn't really notice any red clay in the soil around the pits we visited, just the yellow.

Thanks for helping a very new beginner. I am astounded...

Johnston stone?

feeds@yuku.com (NCLonghunter) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:49:25 GMT

I am not in an area to get good knapping pieces (rhyolite if found) so I am wondering what the opinion of Johnston stone is like. If a point is knapped from Johnston will it hold or keep an edge like good flint. I am considering trying to make hunting points from Johnston (toilet fragments) to deer hunt with. Would they break easier or just not get as sharp, or is it at least as good or better than good flint?

Anyone near central North Carolina who may have good flint to trade or...

all colors and sizes of old/new glass for knapping.

feeds@yuku.com (sandhills tracker) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:04:13 GMT

guys it saves me money when i use the glass i get for knapping,,and when i make a point from yellow,black,3 diff. greens,cobalt blues,purples,white,--or evn that translucnt old stuff--,the stuff from 30's-50's--clear but have rainbow of colors tinted on the glass at just the right angle.
man-it saves me from muckinmg up the hi-dollar texas stone or etc..--and puts out some of the nicest blades ive seen--i got some that were the size of small dinner plates--but...

best books to learn from??

feeds@yuku.com (Mike H) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:19:42 GMT

Just as the title says. What are the best books to learn to knap from?

need abo and modern tools bad!!--..,

feeds@yuku.com (sandhills tracker) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:56:26 GMT

fellow knappers,
i need some knapping tools pretty bad!--i would like a variety of types and styles,and sizes---including modern and abo kits-.

ideally i would like a abo kit-w/hand,lappad, ishi,flakers,boppers,notchers, hammerstones,abraider,etc,--in small,med and large---and the same but more modern w/ copper,etc, and also mabey even a mini-compact easy to carry -travel {knappers} kit.--has a neat little leather carry case etc,,

i like...