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Post by jamesp on Mar 6, 2016 9:33:59 GMT -5
Stan Payne of Slapout, Alabama. May be one of the best in the world, check out the clone. Of a very homogenous Buffalo River chert cobble from Tennessee. His favorite. Not many people on earth could duplicate work like this, much less make one of them.   |
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 6, 2016 10:09:30 GMT -5
WOW!!!
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Post by orrum on Mar 6, 2016 20:02:11 GMT -5
X2 Fossilman!!!
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Post by quartz on Mar 7, 2016 0:14:27 GMT -5
That guy is GOOD, and an excellent pick and orientation of material.
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Post by es355lucille on Mar 7, 2016 2:22:31 GMT -5
Wow, that's art work there.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2016 7:59:19 GMT -5
Is that your piece James?wow spectacular,amazing skills displayed on that serrated edge,so uniform
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Post by jamesp on Mar 7, 2016 9:17:59 GMT -5
Is that your piece James?wow spectacular,amazing skills displayed on that serrated edge,so uniform Dave Stan has been making pairs out of that Buffalo chert for years. He heats it, saws the center out of the cobble, splits the center slab and then makes mirror image spears on a dual display. Stan my age and I believe he has been knapping for 30 years. Stan with duplicate native osage orange recurve. Such bow is carved in a fashion that every grain of wood on the face of the bow is not severed. Carving follows grain to exact path, following each grain thru every joggle and bend attempting fiberglass flexibility. These guys kill deer with these bows with no effort using flint broad heads. They can be made to easily have 100 pound draw force. these bows are exact duplicates of native man's bows, all from osage orange wood.  |
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Post by orrum on Mar 7, 2016 11:30:22 GMT -5
Impressive info Jim!!! I want some Osage Orange wood. The guy in SC teaching me percussion knapping uses many materials for bopper and Osage is one. Of course if you cut it green u have to wait for it to season and dry. I am not that patient! LOL
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Post by Pat on Mar 7, 2016 14:22:30 GMT -5
Beautiful! He sure has good aim!
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Post by jamesp on Mar 7, 2016 14:35:57 GMT -5
Impressive info Jim!!! I want some Osage Orange wood. The guy in SC teaching me percussion knapping uses many materials for bopper and Osage is one. Of course if you cut it green u have to wait for it to season and dry. I am not that patient! LOL Take time to study one of those bows if you get a chance. It is clearly an example of fiber technology used today. Osage has distinct boundaries, I think it grows in central Tennessee; it has a large grapefruit like tumorous fruit. Lasts 50 years as fence posts even in termite country. Bet the knappers have it in stock nice and dry. |
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Post by jamesp on Mar 7, 2016 14:40:08 GMT -5
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Post by Pat on Mar 7, 2016 15:13:16 GMT -5
Oh. We have a knapper at our show yearly. Donna Kelly uses only another rock. |
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Post by jamesp on Mar 7, 2016 16:03:27 GMT -5
Primitive style is the challenge Pat. Hats off to her. Native man could made fine ones, and may have had cheater tools too. Without fine metals it is not easy to make a knapping machine. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2016 17:26:45 GMT -5
Beautiful! He sure has good aim! Sorry gotta do it.he also has a spectacular mullet!!!long live the 80's Once again sorry.ROFL Y'all know you were thinking it.mad knapping skills.it resembles some of my paleo points Dave |
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Post by Pat on Mar 7, 2016 18:08:58 GMT -5
Beautiful! He sure has good aim! Sorry gotta do it.he also has a spectacular mullet!!!long live the 80's Once again sorry.ROFL Y'all know you were thinking it.mad knapping skills.it resembles some of my paleo points Dave No, I wasn't thinking about his spectacular mullet! However, I did think he had a crazy hairdo! I had forgotten it had its own name. I WAS thinking about his skin shirt, and what is with the tail tossed over the shoulder? |
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Post by Tom on Mar 7, 2016 18:15:09 GMT -5
Sorry gotta do it.he also has a spectacular mullet!!!long live the 80's Once again sorry.ROFL Y'all know you were thinking it.mad knapping skills.it resembles some of my paleo points Dave No, I wasn't thinking about his spectacular mullet! However, I did think he had a crazy hairdo! I had forgotten it had its own name. I WAS thinking about his skin shirt, and what is with the tail tossed over the shoulder? I was thinking about the fact that he has/had hair LOL. He does exacting perfect work. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2016 18:23:14 GMT -5
I think it is the strap to his quiver
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Post by rockpickerforever on Mar 7, 2016 18:25:34 GMT -5
Sorry gotta do it.he also has a spectacular mullet!!!long live the 80's Once again sorry.ROFL Y'all know you were thinking it.mad knapping skills.it resembles some of my paleo points Dave
I was thinking Mad Max... LOL! 
Hair or no hair, he does some mighty fine knapping!
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Post by jamesp on Mar 7, 2016 18:29:52 GMT -5
Stan is a showman and has knap-ins all around the SE US. Hair is giddy-up and the deer skin attire is part of the show.
He is a character and well respected in the knapping circles.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 7, 2016 18:44:30 GMT -5
He will be flattered to be in any comparison with Mad Max rockpickerforever. Here is Stan(middle)at one of his knap-ins. No indian attire that day, it was 20F and windy cold. The guys in camo each had a knapped point they had used to kill deer with for years. Portion of proceeds are handed over to a needy children fund.  Knapping materials, mostly chert  Spalls and pre-forms  |
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