New knapped piece

[razorsharptokill]

A little big for an arrow but I liked the way it turned out. It was 1/4" glass about the size of a credit card. Glass is a great learning resource.
 

[Ray Hammond]

nice work!

[sou-pawbowhunter]

Beautiful

[tradtusker]

very nice work

[4runr]

Beautiful is right!

Well done!

[Curtiss Cardinal]

Beautiful! I had a buddy up in Michigan that was a knapper and his wife found this beautiful blue bottle at a yardsale. He commented on how much he'd like to knap some arrowheads out of it. She did buy it when he told her six months later that the cat had knocked it off the window sill. So he had to spend the next Spring and Summer combing yardsales for a replacement. She did let him knap the broken pices and he made 4 absolutely gorgeous Ishi type heads with them and killed his biggest but ever with one. I think you need to mount that on a spear shaft of figured maple for home defense.  

[EASTERNARCHER]

How does one Knap a head from ordinary glass? or is that a loaded question? Looks like something else I'd like to try as a winter project.

[non-typical]

That is cool!

[Teacher_of_the_Arcane]

Mr. Razor....

Where did you learn your knapping??

[razorsharptokill]

I get scrap pieces and cut them down to workable size with a glass cutter. I then rough the edges on a grinder so I can pressure flake them with my ishi stick and smaller flakers. The Paleo planet website has a lot of info for beginners.
Here's a tiger striped obsidian point that I think I will try to hunt with.
 

This one I need to trim down a little to get the weight down. If it survives it too will go into my quiver.
 

[Teacher_of_the_Arcane]

Verryy cool stuff.  My buddy and I have been trying to get to a Knapp In for a couple of years, but always one or the other is tied up.  We may have to go Paleoplanet!!

Keep up the good work!!!

[razorsharptokill]

Originally posted by Teacher_of_the_Arcane:
Mr. Razor....

Where did you learn your knapping??

I did a lot of research on the net and a friend and I just started at it. When we got some good tools and some decent material we improved fairly quickly.

I've been at it for about three months. There is a ton of video on youtube that will explain a lot. My biggest break through was learning to drive my flakes farther by pushing the tip of my flaker into the the edge of the material pretty hard then peeling the flake off using inward pressure from my knees.

I use copper tipped tools but I've heard that antler is just as good.

[EASTERNARCHER]

That's amazing for only 3 months work!
I never thought that glass would flake like that!
I imagine skinned knuckles are a rite of passage?

[razorsharptokill]

Safety glasses and mechanics gloves are a must! The flakes are the sharpest things I've ever seen! Sharp as a scalpel at least. Many times I've had flakes bounce off my safety glasses.

[Swamp Pygmy]

razor where are you finding your glass?

Are you buying it and breaking it?

[twosheds]

Great looking point.

[yellow bow]

[ishiwannabe]

Great job on all of them, your lines a cleaning up nicely. Is that second point jasper? Either way, Im sure you will be hunting with stone next year. Ya got me beat and I have been playing with rocks for a little over a year.
Obsidian is the sharpest material known to man. It can have an edge the thickness of one molecule, thats why they use it for surgery.

[Chris Surtees]

Those are some sweet heads. Best of luck hunting with them.

[Gaff]

thats some nice work Jim!! that first head ya got is about the size of those 1 7/8" german kenetic heads buff does all the killin with!!!!    

seriously though, great heads...