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    Sort of looks like an arrowhead? It looks pretty danged good to me. Very nice job on the tools and the finished product.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wtrfwlr View Post
    I hope its cool with you guys if I bump up this thread and join in here. I just found this thread last night and read through it and thought I would share too.
    I'm also brand spanking new to knapping. It has been one of those things that I have wanted to try and do since I was a kid and was just never around anyone who did that sort of thing. Well the other day I watched that video that was posted in an earlier post about beer bottle bottoms and decided to give it a go. I made up a couple of tools that I thought looked sorta like what they were using and got and old beer bottle and made something that sort of looks like an arrowhead.
    It is pretty dang fun I must admit and frustrating at times too but I'm learning as I go. I have to say also that I have about as much fun making the tools as I do crackin glass! Here is a photo of my first ever attempt and the tools I made.
    Thanks Bj. wtrfwlr
    *** Heck, I forgot to size the pix to fit! I hope I can go do that and then attach them to this??? If not I'll post them in the next one, sorry.

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    You certainly weren't nappin' when you made any of that! Great job!
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    Thank you Kind Sir. I'll keep fooling with it. I would prefer to have them appear full size if I can.

    Thanks for the nod. I must admit I was kinda proud of it myself. Of course, like everyone I wanted it to be better but I'm sure the ones that follow will be.
    I now have some TV glass to play with and some Johnstone too but I'm not liking it all that much yet, it's sorta crappy! I'm trying to get my glass down before I move on to rock.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rick View Post
    Sort of looks like an arrowhead? It looks pretty danged good to me. Very nice job on the tools and the finished product.
    Thanks so much Rick, the tools are pretty fun to make and then see them work and work well is just cool. I had always read about Indians made stone points using an antler and it made absolutely no sense to me until I grabbed an antler and started beatin on a beer bottle with! I just looked and thought, "I'll be dipped, it works???"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ted View Post
    You certainly weren't nappin' when you made any of that! Great job!
    Thanks for the applause Ted. If you had been here to see me you would have been rolling on ground in laughter crying out "Do it again, cut yourself and cuss again! That's funny!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by wtrfwlr View Post
    and some Johnstone too but I'm not liking it all that much yet, it's sorta crappy!
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    Ooooh. I get it. I do. I get it.
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    Just another stinkin pun, not to worry.
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    Pssst, Hey guys, I got a tip about this church, see, the whole thing in made of flint, looks like some good stuff too......
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    Quote Originally Posted by hunter63 View Post
    Pssst, Hey guys, I got a tip about this church, see, the whole thing in made of flint, looks like some good stuff too......
    If you'll give me the address I'll head right on over there.
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    Just come down the page a bit:
    http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...Norfolk-Thread!

    Actually there will be a knapper at the Rondy this week end, in town here.
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    Yeah Hunter I saw it this AM I was just jazzin you bout the address.
    Cool about having a knapper over there. I wish we had more Rondy stuff around here. We have 1 in Oct. It's lots of fun to go to.
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    beautifull work people! you are awesome!

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    That looks really nice YCC!
    Always wanted to try my hand at knapping, but never have gotten around to it...
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    Thanks! It takes a few specialized tools (just the right size and shape horn, a rough rock) but it's a lot of fun. If you break one, you just throw it down and start another. This must've been the fifth one I tried that day, haha!

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    I asked my mentor how he got to be so good at knapping. I expected him to say "practice", but he said


    "You gotta fluff the pillow just right"

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    Man there is some skill here.

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    This is the last one I did, about 5 days ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Enigma View Post
    This is the last one I did, about 5 days ago.

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    Very nice.......Thanks for posting.

    Excuse a real dumb question....Is that a, ....or do you have example of original aboriginal stone work?
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