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Thanks for the support for the thread. I made it for two reasons: The first is that I can look back to find out what I was doing differently before, in case I start to slip up or form bad habits in...

What you actually see is the annoying habit glass has to not hinge, but flake (however strange this sound) underneath itself, leaving two separated layers of glass. I can't explain how in heck this...

Well it's back to good ol' practice. After procuring some more bottle bottoms, and unfortunately loosing the largest (40oz bottle) bottom to the uninformed parents (I'm 19, in case you're wondering),...

Thanks for your insight. I am noticing the difference between harder materials and softer ones now that I have my billets. The larger one has so many layers of electrical tape that there's a small...

Yeah, I am knapping a bit more... nothing with any long term vision, though. I decided to practice some shaping and turn that blade into a rough draft of an arrow point. As I said before, I'm not in...

The tools I have:

http://i918.photobucket.com/albums/ad24/DeadlyTao/tools.jpg

The billets are short pieces of dowel and copper pipe caps. I didn't know what size to get, but using my method for...

I have pricked myself in the knuckles with tiny shards of glass a few times now, because I get lazy and forget to brush off the dust and flakes after every successful couple of strikes. I am wearing...

I managed to make it more rectangular in an attempt to remove the curve from the piece... this is where I make one key mistake... I didn't bother looking up some information to confirm if my idea was...

At this point in time I am confident that the edges are sharp enough to use this piece of glass as a survival tool. Being glass, and having rather crude edges and a round shape, it would probably...

Once the walls were removed, I started to uniform the edges by making a bevel that removes those bumps from the bottom of the bottle's original shape. I figure that they will screw up everything if I...

I have begun learning the process of flintknapping hands-on. I have done a good amount of research, and am familiar with a handful of concepts and terms within the skill, and have decided that...