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Offline amm1851

Re: Flint knapping
« Reply #30 on: November 05, 2016, 11:13:15 AM »
That video Muley posted is the same one you linked to, Rob.  I too am trying to learn how to knap, as I have a box full of dull flints. How hard should you tap the flint?  :)
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Offline Muley

Re: Flint knapping
« Reply #31 on: November 05, 2016, 11:15:04 AM »
The two videos should be different. ?
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Offline amm1851

Re: Flint knapping
« Reply #32 on: November 05, 2016, 11:16:35 AM »
I meant the very first video, of the dude from Utah.
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Offline Muley

Re: Flint knapping
« Reply #33 on: November 05, 2016, 11:25:36 AM »
Oh ok. I didn't watch the first one. My bad.

Don't you hate it when someone posts a video that's already been posted?  :oops:
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Offline amm1851

Re: Flint knapping
« Reply #34 on: November 05, 2016, 11:31:22 AM »
It's all good.  I'm just seeking information.  :lt th
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Offline Muley

Re: Flint knapping
« Reply #35 on: November 05, 2016, 11:38:25 AM »
I see you're in the AMM. I always wanted to join them. I've gotten too old now. You do some pretty hard core trekking i'm not sure I could do now. I'll be 74 next month.
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Offline amm1851

Re: Flint knapping
« Reply #36 on: November 05, 2016, 11:52:31 AM »
Actually,  I haven't been an active member for some time and now I just do my own thing.
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Re: Flint knapping
« Reply #37 on: November 05, 2016, 01:39:24 PM »
Quote from: "JStanley"
I found me a great knapping "hammer" in the scrap box at work. Not PC, HC or even purty but boy howdy is it the perfect fit to the edge of my flints. Held by the copper tube, perpendicular to the lock plate in just a few light pecks the edge looks like a razor!  The flats on the brass hex nut are just under an inch in length.
IMHO, that is just about as "Buckskinner" as a feller can get...find something useful, use it!

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Re: Flint knapping
« Reply #38 on: November 06, 2016, 09:41:19 AM »
Good post, it made me get off my butt last night and get out into my workshop and make a proper knapping hamer - other then the one I had been using that was made from an Allen Wrench... This one is made from 1/4" copper with a 12 penny nail set firmly into it as the handle. You can see I've wasted no time getting leather on the handle that I'll trim down in a little while.

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Offline Muley

Re: Flint knapping
« Reply #39 on: November 06, 2016, 09:49:45 AM »
tap  tap  tap  knap  knap knap...
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Re: Flint knapping
« Reply #40 on: November 06, 2016, 10:02:27 AM »
Quote from: "Muley"
tap  tap  tap  knap  knap knap...

Gosh Muley, this could become a country song... :lt th
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Offline Muley

Re: Flint knapping
« Reply #41 on: November 06, 2016, 01:56:48 PM »
Ok Joe. You do the melody and i'll do the words. The song title will be.

"I Be Knapping"
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Re: Flint knapping
« Reply #42 on: November 06, 2016, 02:39:15 PM »
I like it!  :lt th
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Re: Flint knapping
« Reply #43 on: November 06, 2016, 04:20:33 PM »
Okay, wasn't all that happy with the first knapping hammer I did late last night, so I did another. It looks better to me, but I'll also use the one I made last night. The new one is the top one.

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Offline amm1851

Re: Flint knapping
« Reply #44 on: November 06, 2016, 05:49:08 PM »
Both look good to me.
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