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Pressure Flaker Project
A friend of mine has been doing a fair bit of knapping again lately and expressed interest in a nice pressure flaker. As some of you will know I am - for various lax definitions of the word - a machinist in my spare time. I figured why not put my lathe to work on something actually useful outside my own shop. After I got started I decided to make up a few more. The set screw ferrule is 304 stainless from some scrap bolts I had a bunch of, cross drilled and tapped 10-32. The wood is african mahogany and the copper insert at least on the first one is a piece of buss bar cut out and cold hammer forged somewhat into the round to firstly get it round and secondly to work harden it a bit.
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Nice, and a lot fancier than my chunk of broom handle with a piece of copper wire stuck in it.
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Pretty fancy tool there, Bud...Nice job.
You do any knapping?
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Yeah, though not enough lately. the last time I picked up some stone I slipped with the flaker and ran my knuckle down the whole edge of the biface I was working on pretty hard. It's just about healed up now.
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Remember.....................chicks dig scars.
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Hahaha. I'm pretty sure that was my mother's nickname for me when I was an infant. I'm glad to say I made it well into adulthood without it becoming stumpy.
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Nice job Canid!
Mine is a re-purposed escrima stick with a hammered copper wire glued in. I think it is long because Ishi preferred a longer pressure flaker.
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Yeah, I love the ishi stick when I need leverage (or the fine control a long lever gives).
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If I ever open a bar it's going to be for metalworkers and it's going to be called The Broken Tap.
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