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crashdive123
01-13-2010, 06:40 PM
I visited a customer today that does quite a bit of knapping. I've posted some pictures in the past of some of his work. He has what probably amounts to more than a ton of rocks laying around for knapping.

Canid - I thought of you when I saw this little piece of obsidian as I walked up to his front door.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/crashdive123/CarlsFlintKnapping001.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/crashdive123/CarlsFlintKnapping002.jpg

crashdive123
01-13-2010, 06:43 PM
Here are a few more pics that I took. Some he has collected over the years and some he has made. He wasn't home for me to ask which was which.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/crashdive123/CarlsFlintKnapping003.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/crashdive123/CarlsFlintKnapping004.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/crashdive123/CarlsFlintKnapping005.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/crashdive123/CarlsFlintKnapping006.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/crashdive123/CarlsFlintKnapping007.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/crashdive123/CarlsFlintKnapping008.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/crashdive123/CarlsFlintKnapping010.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/crashdive123/CarlsFlintKnapping014.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/crashdive123/CarlsFlintKnapping015.jpg

crashdive123
01-13-2010, 06:46 PM
And a few of the larger blades.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/crashdive123/CarlsFlintKnapping017.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/crashdive123/CarlsFlintKnapping018.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/crashdive123/CarlsFlintKnapping019.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/crashdive123/CarlsFlintKnapping021.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/crashdive123/CarlsFlintKnapping025.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/crashdive123/CarlsFlintKnapping026.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/crashdive123/CarlsFlintKnapping027.jpg

your_comforting_company
01-13-2010, 06:46 PM
wow. I think I can tell most of the ones he made vs. found. thats some amazing work.

crashdive123
01-13-2010, 06:47 PM
He has many thousands more - I didn't want to be a pest.

canid
01-13-2010, 07:17 PM
that is a beautiful collection.

i don't know which i like better: the modern or the old points.

thank you for sharing crash.

hunter63
01-13-2010, 08:00 PM
I second the WOW, outstanding.
Thanks for posting, doesn't matter who made them the workmanship is truly outstanding.

Friend of mine that does napping would tell you how hard it is to make the big ones, or rather find a good enough piece of stone to make the knives and large points.

pocomoonskyeyes
01-13-2010, 09:29 PM
uh...uh...uh..... WOW seems so....so inadequate. I don't think there is a word for the kind of awe I have. Whoa..... I think I'm kinda' dizzy now.

FVR
01-13-2010, 10:20 PM
Now you've gone and done it. I have drool all over my keyboard.

Nothing like a nice chunk of obsidian to get the salvatory glands going.

panch0
01-13-2010, 10:48 PM
That is awesome, He is very talted thats for sure.

Boker
01-13-2010, 10:53 PM
He has many thousands more - I didn't want to be a pest.



You stated he wasn't home so you couldn't ask him which were found and which were made. So, if I understand this correctly, you broke into his house fondled and pictured his collection, but didn't want to ask him any questions?


:D

crashdive123
01-13-2010, 11:03 PM
I'm sneaky like that.

your_comforting_company
01-14-2010, 08:15 AM
Crash has had extensive training through Kens Ninja Squirrel School for the Invisible Photographer.

Hunter hit it on the head.. It's rare to find a suitable stone for the long ones and then to knap such a blade without breaking it into a million little bitty crumbs takes true talent. This fella must have been doing this half his life.
I'm just amazed. This is world class knapping. I could only dream of making such fine points and blades.

Rick
01-14-2010, 08:39 AM
And just think, every tribe had them.

Nice pics, Crash. Thanks.

NightShade
01-14-2010, 04:49 PM
Truly amazing..... Thanks for the pics!

Ted
01-23-2010, 02:13 AM
Thanks Crash!

your_comforting_company
02-01-2010, 09:55 PM
so i've been banging rocks the last couple days, and I keep coming back to these points.. I don't necessarily desire to be able to make such high quality pieces, BUT I DO want to understand how that flake is driven fully across the blade like that. Whoever made those pieces fully understood the rocks. I don't mean like, what it's made of, etc. (although I'm sure that played a large part), What I mean is that each tap on the rock was carefully studied, careful aim applied, exacted energy in precise locations... The creator was intimate with his rocks to have the patience and finesse to produce such pieces. Attention was paid to flaws in the rock, and a very intuitive set of techniques applied. That man is connected to his rocks, I'm tellin ya. and talented too.

hunter63
02-02-2010, 12:35 PM
That man is connected to his rocks, I'm tellin ya. and talented too.

I know, I know, I agree, but that statement reallllly leaves this open.....not gonna do it.....not gonna do it..........

Sorry, can't stand it....

" I would certainly hope so..."

There, I feel better now.