This may seem a little odd to most here, but there is actually a practical purpose to this. I have a foot-ball shaped nodule and want to make it square.
So with six blows, I'd like to make a brick out of a football-shaped nodule. Hard or Soft hammer? Chisel a 'scratch line' first, like scoring glass? What would a rock splitter do, a nice clean cut? How would you do it? This is all off-margin.
Now why. First is I'm cutting gun flints on a 10 inch lapidary saw and square is better to start off with. Second, I'm also doing gun flints the old school way and am having problems making the blade cores. The Brandon films help and also have the "Manufacture of Gun Flints" but am confused about how hard their quartering hammers were.... Iron and steel tipped... I think. Oh, and good luck finding a quartering hammer these days, with 'pointed' tips, cross ping is the closest and cutting it to point... but still hard steel. I digress.
I'm getting 220 shots from one flint made on a lapidary saw and there is almost no waste. I have a special design for these as well.
Thanks in advance,
Bit
So with six blows, I'd like to make a brick out of a football-shaped nodule. Hard or Soft hammer? Chisel a 'scratch line' first, like scoring glass? What would a rock splitter do, a nice clean cut? How would you do it? This is all off-margin.
Now why. First is I'm cutting gun flints on a 10 inch lapidary saw and square is better to start off with. Second, I'm also doing gun flints the old school way and am having problems making the blade cores. The Brandon films help and also have the "Manufacture of Gun Flints" but am confused about how hard their quartering hammers were.... Iron and steel tipped... I think. Oh, and good luck finding a quartering hammer these days, with 'pointed' tips, cross ping is the closest and cutting it to point... but still hard steel. I digress.
I'm getting 220 shots from one flint made on a lapidary saw and there is almost no waste. I have a special design for these as well.
Thanks in advance,
Bit
