Flint-Knapping
Just ten pictures of my NEW Fun
CLICKING ON THE PICTURES GET YOU A LARGER VIEW!
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Small Knife and rawhide sheath with raccoon jaw handle
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Just a few of my earl attempts
NOTE:  making the large blades over 3" 
takes a lot of ROCK and as a rule
they BREAK a the last minute so you have
two - three smaller items or just gravel!
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Some of the Other item I have been building
from leather - fur - horn - bone - metal.
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Little arrow head from the bottom of an EMPTY
beer bottle -- Real Rolling Rock!
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Chipping a small bird point --- from a LARGE rock
as a starting point!
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You can see the stone I started with bellow...
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This is one of the Moose antler billets I use
in thinning and shaping the stones or cracking into
GRAVEL!
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Close-up -- NOTE the tarp below too catch
all the chips -- They are small and all SHARP
Flint and the other stone used is like GLASS
so the debris is HAZARDOUS waste!
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One of the Copper billets I use - just a copper
pipe filled with lead and a rounded cap.
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Arrow head shafted and mounted with
waxed sinew on a shaft in a turkey
bone and mounted on a marble slab stand.

Just a few of other things:
starting on the left is a hoko knife < Mounted flake>
center a 3.5" point
little foot looking thing is a cattail shredder to make rope
right side is a BONE point hefted in rawhide
for hunting fish

Atlatle & darts
[Throwing spear with darts]
& skunk possible bag
Dart has bone arrow tip mounted

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