jessen
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Post by jessen on May 31, 2015 12:38:05 GMT -5
Hi,
I hope I'm posting this in the right spot and wasn't sure if I should put this in Artifacts or Carvings. So apologies if it is in the wrong spot.
My grandparents and also my dad took me artifact hunting quite often. Mostly in the fall/winter when they would lower the water level of the Missouri River. We found quite a collection of stone and bone tools along with quite a few fossils.
So anyways I always wanted to try knapping and making my own items. I've watched a few videos on youtube, but would like to get some recommendations from members here on getting started. I tried doing a search for knapping but couldn't seem to turn up any posted tutorials or guides.
What are the basic tools I'd need to get started and a good place to purchase them?
Any specific guides or tutorials you'd recommend?
A good learning/starting material? We'd found arrowheads of a quartzite found locally and was going to try working with it since I can easily get my hands on it.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on May 31, 2015 15:10:33 GMT -5
You come to the right place-a few people on here knap.................Just keep this rolling,you will get an answer!!!!!!!!!
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Post by orrum on May 31, 2015 16:17:38 GMT -5
Knapping....It's a blood sport! LOL
Roy has some good utube type things on knapping, look up his site. Just Google flint ridge knapping and you will find them. Knapping is all phsics, hertian cones aND deltas and string up platforms. Watch the videos and learn the phsyics. Start on beer bottle bottoms.... they are free and easy. Take a 16 nail point down in the bottle and shake it and the bottom will fall out. Don't use wine bottles cause glass is usually too thin. Make Lotta gravel n u will learn.
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Post by Rockoonz on May 31, 2015 16:40:24 GMT -5
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Post by RickB on May 31, 2015 19:02:53 GMT -5
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jessen
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Post by jessen on Jun 1, 2015 21:10:49 GMT -5
Thanks I'll take a look at these and give it a try.
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agatemaggot
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Post by agatemaggot on Jun 5, 2015 12:14:29 GMT -5
Google Neolithics, that is a store run by Craig Ratzit. They have boxes of heat treated flakes of different materials , the 3 inch pieces are fairly inexpensive Flaker Fodder. I would also recommend preformed obsidian slabs on E-Bay, they usually have them in groups reasonably pticed , or better yet, buy some slabs from Tony Funk at Idaho Rock Shop. Buy a glass cutter and cut your own strips. I started out years ago by picking up 1/4 inch scrap glass from a local glass shop to get a feel for the pressure flaking part of it. Neolithics carries all the tools you need to get started, plus good size flakes of anything knappable. For starters I would try the heat treated Vermaculite, it is easily worked and has some interesting colors and patterns.
Harley
P.S. Before you pick up your tools and start hacking away, make sure you have a bottle of Crazy Glue and some Duct Tape on hand.
YOU WILL DEVELOP A FEW ( LEAKS )!
The flakes you will produce will be 10 times sharper than a Surgeon's Scalpel and the wound 1/8 th. in wide and very shallow, won't register as an injury on your capillary system. Most of the time you won't realize it happened ! By the time you finish the point you are working on, it will look like someone field dressed an entire herd of Buffalo with it. Having one of these small nicks ooze for 30 minutes or more is very common. Placing a short narrow strip of tape over the pads of your first, second and third fingers of the HOLDING hand will eliminate 90 % of these small nicks.
Send me a P.M. with your # if you would like to chat.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 5, 2015 15:01:38 GMT -5
Harley is the man for knapping,I have some of his work in my collection-Thumbs up
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 5, 2015 15:02:42 GMT -5
Harley is the man for knapping,I have some of his work in my collection-Thumbs up I always have crazy glue in my wood shop and rock shop-in fact I'm wearing some now,it does help and fast!
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jessen
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Post by jessen on Jun 13, 2015 22:35:29 GMT -5
Thanks for the information. I've been doing some reading up on some of the material I can find around here locally. Adding the tools to my "Father's Day Wish List"
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 15, 2015 10:53:20 GMT -5
Also Youtube has some great videos online with knapping....
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