all my points iv made so far, plz remember im a very very new knapper

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fatfeet12345	all my points iv made so far, plz remember im a very very new knapper	Lead	[-]
Posts: 2 (10/10/08 2:53 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : flintknapping, points, new, stuff iv been into it for about a week now. im hooked
PeteDavis.parallaxscurioa...		#1	[-]
Posts: 59 (10/10/08 3:13 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	right on
BOHUNTER		#2	[-]
Posts: 650 (10/10/08 4:10 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	This rascal has emailed me 30000 times off youtube, asked every question under the sun. I remember about 3.5 years ago someone emailed Winston Burnham, Derek McLean, and Woody Blackwell 32000 times ab out the same things! Im telling you if these are your first points and your not very pleased then Wait till you see my first points! LOL Youll laugh or think I was making effigies! Its all a training period, for some it lasts longer than others to get down the basics but its gonna come if you keep at it. I am very obsessive, my wife says, but overall its the pure obsession to do something that was developed by early man and accomplish this with modern tools. Its so time consuming, and it takes complete concentration to make killer pieces. Patience is a must, if your wanting to see improvements then you have to wait, this in rreturn means a heck of alot of flakes. I cant tell you how many scoops Ive hauled to the pit behind my house. Hundreds of bucks in rock if not thousands destroyed. It takes time, but if you get involved and work at it several times a week, educate yourself by watching and reading and best of all pickingg up broken worn down artifacts and feeling them, looking over the patterns and man its a long process the only way to be there tomorrow is either your a natural or you break a ton of rock above the average guy! Now if thats not a long arse run sentence...My english teacher just had a heartattack!! LOL But always try and remember, when they are small rocks, there are MILLIONS of them and when its 10 inches they become a bit more rare, so beat the hell out of the small stuff, keep your platforms low and abraide. If it looks too much well hit it, see what happens, remember, and if you need that flake again you already know how the rock reacts and what you need to do to be successful. Pressure flake, keep that tool SHARPLY POINTED! Abraide....Try and keep your wrist at 90*, shoot the flakes inward to create a thin edge just pop off to get a steep edge...Its all out there, just go get it... One thing I say in my videos is I place my thumb right at the point Im gonna hit, i mean 1/16th" off the platform, I promise you you will never hit it FAT but once, and that Blue nail will remond you not to do it again! Experience talking! Good luck Save and date those pieces, one day youll look back and see how far youve come! STEVE HOLLOWAY Im headed to Illinois to BOWHUNT..see yall in a week.
lithicchipper		#3	[-]
Posts: 1 (10/10/08 5:51 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	A pressure flaker, obsidian and man made glass is a good place to start. The approach is the same whether billeting or pressure flaking and that is setting a good platform at the proper angle and applying the proper amount of force. I started this "addictive hobby" in 1993. My wife really didn't undrestand why I was buying rocks when we had all those rocks in the yard. If you have a wife you have some educating to do. Your first attempts beat mine. It took me almost a year to make a point that I thought was good enough to mount and shoot. Keep after it and get with someone who has been knapping a while. They will be able to help you over some of the tough spots but the bottom line is that you just have to break a lot of rocks and if you are like most knappers you will never be staisfied with a point you make.
madcrow6969		#4	[-]
Posts: 117 (10/10/08 6:14 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	They look better than my first points. I have been doing it a few months and just now gettting to where I am starting to understand the whole platform issue and thinning. My good flakes are mostly for small game. I have not made a decent point for deer yet, but I am hoping I will have a few decent shooters by deer season next year.
perri smith		#5	[-]
Posts: 54 (10/10/08 7:31 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	my first point looked more like a plow bottom than an arrow head. every once in a while i get it out and look at it when i get discouraged. i show it to newer knappers who also get flustered and tell them the story behind it.
KYMountainMan		#6	[-]
Posts: 45 (10/10/08 8:28 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	That's really good man !!! You should have seen my first points. I started pressure flaking and working a few pieces of Obsidian roughly 1/4" thick x 4 " long x 2" wide. What should have been a few nice 3 1/2" points ended up looking more like drills by the time I got all of the saw marks off! You're doing great. Keep it up.
Chips Rock2		#7	[-]
Posts: 160 (10/10/08 8:39 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Good...you aere hooked. A good many of us started the same way. Your first points look a lot better than my first points. My first points were terrible really bad, but my wife bless her heart thought they were great. All ya got to do is keep chipping, do some studying, watch those videos on youtube etc and little by little, you will get there. It is a journey of one step at a time (PUN intended). And it lloks to me like you are well on your way just keep it up. CR2
knappingprodogy		#8	[-]
Posts: 18 (10/21/08 7:12 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I have been knapping for 15 months and I have a pile of points just like yours. The first point I tried percussion flaking on went from a 5x4 spall of dacite to a 1.5x1 and really thick ugly "point". I knap every day for about an hour. If you practice and learn from your mistakes, you could progress really quick. Check out one of my latest points. Last Edited By: knappingprodogy 10/21/08 7:14 AM. Edited 1 times.
BOHUNTER		#9	[-]
Posts: 669 (10/21/08 9:26 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I would like to add this important info that I wish I had done. GET good rock to work. I started out with raw texas flints, beat all my boppers to death, learned how to swing hard and miss... Spend a few bucks buy a bucket of nice heat treated Burlington chert, figure out centerline, always hit below it and drive the flakes, I think thats the hardest part to learn so do it first. Most knappers Ive seen just hit down on the edge, that is why you create fat points! Keep platforms low and the flake will carry across further and if you abraided it well it will darn near Outrepass the other side off! Good rock Clean tools Sharp tools And a camera!
hardawaypoints		#10	[-]
Posts: 256 (10/22/08 12:23 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My first points were about as thick as they were wide. Keep after it. The only way to get better is to break rock (the right way) and not just beat it to pieces. The suggestions BOHUNTER offered are right on time. Go to a Knap-In if you can as there will be a lot of talented knappers there who have worked a long time to develop their skills. Everybody starts the same way and nobody is born knowing how to knap rock. You are doing great, stay with it, with practice and dedication you will only get better. (keep those points as a measuring stick). Jim