Finished a large spear point from obsidian PIC

[steve Ypsi]

Started this head yesterday evening, I finished this morning, It took about 2 hours total, you have to be carefull with the long wide ones, they can break in a heart beat with the wrong amount of pressure aplied the wrong way,

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/slevinski/my%20recurves/large%20head%20spear%20point%20001.jpg

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/slevinski/my%20recurves/large%20head%20spear%20point%20003.jpg

[jcdflint]

Nice point Steve, Do you hunt with them at all? Jeff

[vvarmitr]

What are you planning to skewer w/ that? :eek:

PS: steve is that a rare Angora White Groundhog you are holding inthe picture? :confused: :D

[Turkeyfoot]

Nice work Steve.....Had the opportunity to learn knapping from a guy I worked with couple years back in WV. But, I kept putting it off as usual and the man was taken quickly by cancer! He did give me one head that my son used to take a nice doe with the year that Tom passed. Sadly, I never got to show him the pictures of that deer:( Old Ben was right.....never put off until tommorrow what you can do today!!......TF

[jcdflint]

"LET CHIPS FLY,BEFORE YOU DIE" Amen!

[Thunderflight]

Very nice.

TF

[george tinkham]

AWSOME!!!

[Beau Martin]

Very nice work wish I could do that.

[CatDaddy]

Man thats awesome! Is it hard to learn how to do that? Ive Got a nice collection that I have found.

[steve Ypsi]

CatDaddy
I am just learning, I started about 3 years ago and I did it for a few weeks then stopped for the next 3 years, started trying again and have been at it for about 3 weeks now, its fairly easy to do but you have to have some one to show you how to do it, tools are simple and cheap. I was at a stand still, My buddy came over and flaked a head in about 15 minutes, I watched and saw what I was doing wrong, My heads are just so so, after yesterday watching him I saw I was going to deep and not doing a certain thing but doing it wrong for a few weeks I was able to understand what he was doing so mine should improve a lot over the next weeks.

[CatDaddy]

I wish there was someone around here to show me how.

[steve Ypsi]

CatDaddy
You are located 54 miles from one of the best flint mines or ridge's in the eastern US, East of Newark and west of Zansville, its called flint ridge, in august there is one of the biggest gathering of flint knappers in the world, its the last aug on fri sat sun this year, there are a lot of knappers around

[CatDaddy]

Do you ever happen to travel down that way?

[steve Ypsi]

I am going to be there this aug

[jcdflint]

Steve will you be there on Friday? That's the only day I can be there. Jeff

[Thundergut]

Pretty nice Steve. That's a pig sticker for sure. Gonna have to mount that baby on a 2219 for sure. ;)

[steve Ypsi]

jcdflint

I don't know at this time what day I am going, really won't know until a week before.

[CatDaddy]

Maybe Ill come out this year and meet you.

[hoot gibson]

well not that anybody really cares , but i will be there thursday and friday morning . then i have a shoot to go to the rest of the weekend.. dadgum the luck .. hoot

[george tinkham]

wow guys,sounds like some of us better git to flint ridge.i gotta work,shoot.i could prolly git there on the weekend.it would be nice to see these awsome heads.oh is the dog gonna be there,muzzled???

[lureboy98]

That looks nice steve! The only times I've ever seen any like those were when I found them lol, nice work!

[vvarmitr]

George that Michigan Mutt probably eats Ohioians as appetizers. I'm thinking maybe it was crossbred w/a wolverine. We have all heard how savage they are. Unless they're wearing a football jersey & then they become pretty worthless. :D :D :D

[Farmbear]

Man that is so neat & so cool.;) :D

[george tinkham]

should i wear a meeshygun wolferine jersey to be safe