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footfootfoot · 11-15-2011, 10:18 PM

No worries, I still have lots of time.

plthijinx · 11-16-2011, 12:40 AM

at my old farm i found tons of arrowheads. while the majority of them were flint some were a white soft rock. i'm no geologist. couldn't tell ya what it was made from. good luck! i couldn't do something like that. not unless i was like i dunno. locked up with lots of time on my hands?

seriously, cool beans on trying this task dude!

BigV · 11-16-2011, 12:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flint

What in the holy hell have you guys done to my vanity search.

We're rocking it!

glatt · 11-16-2011, 01:01 PM

Flint stones. Meet the Flint stones. Have a yabba dabba do dah time.

Flint · 11-18-2011, 10:18 PM

And the time that will be had shall be said forevermore and henceforth to have been a gay old time.

jimhelm · 11-19-2011, 01:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Be careful when working with obsidian, when flaked, it can be sharper than a scalpel.

I saw a show that said they actually make scalpels out of it. It can be honed to one molecule on the edge.

BigV · 11-20-2011, 10:31 AM

jimhelm, if you will excuse me, "honed" is not the right term though you use it in context. A metal blade can be honed, that is sharpened on a stone or strop to keen edge. Obsidian blades for scalpels are not "sharpened" this way. They're produced by knapping, knocking flakes from a larger piece. The flakes produced are the finished product for scalpel blades, at least as far as the edge processing is concerned. Obsidian is much like glass, and the edge of a broken piece of glass is already as sharp as it's going to get, it can't be honed sharper than a clean fracture.

interesting link I found that made me think of Perry Winkle:
http://www.theperfectedge.com/howto.shtml

and one for footfootfoot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Crabtree

Undertoad · 11-20-2011, 10:46 AM

It's important because that is thought to be the first human technology, and teaching it across generations may have been the "booting" of human civilization.

footfootfoot · 11-20-2011, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

It's important because that is thought to be the first human technology, and teaching it across generations may have been the "booting" of human civilization.

I know what they said when they discovered that technology,too. It wasn't Eureka! It was "MOTHERFUCKER! That shit is sharp. Goddamnit!

Later that week it was "Hold my Monkey Skull, watch this..."

Lola Bunny · 11-20-2011, 07:35 PM

Foot: You got your flint or obsidian yet?

Big Sarge · 11-20-2011, 09:54 PM

I order most of mine online. Plenty of knapping supplies on ebay. Novaculite is easy to get. Be sure to wear a mask or at list work outside due to the silica dust. Beer bottle bottoms are a practice meduim.

Do you have a good supply of pitch and snew?i

footfootfoot · 11-20-2011, 10:18 PM

I have plenty of pitch and sinew and now that deer season is hot underway I could get as much sinew as I could ever use.

Beer bottle bottoms? I'll have to check that out.

Still waiting on flint and obsidian, but I have a line on some...

ZenGum · 11-21-2011, 01:04 AM

Wait wait wait wait wait...

You want to make stone tools.

You start by ordering online.

Wow. Just #$%^ing wow.

infinite monkey · 11-21-2011, 07:09 AM

Foot, my brother has been spending his weekends down at the "compound" and I haven't seen him.

However, he can't avoid me at Thanksgiving, as dinner is at his house. Funny, though, mom said they were told to be there around 1 and they told me around 5.

I'm kidding.

I haven't forgotten you!

Flint · 11-21-2011, 11:33 AM

What is this about with your brother and the compound???

11-15-2011, 10:18 PM	#16
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	No worries, I still have lots of time. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

11-16-2011, 12:40 AM	#17
plthijinx Master Dwellar Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,197	at my old farm i found tons of arrowheads. while the majority of them were flint some were a white soft rock. i'm no geologist. couldn't tell ya what it was made from. good luck! i couldn't do something like that. not unless i was like i dunno. locked up with lots of time on my hands? seriously, cool beans on trying this task dude! __________________ For your dreams to come true, you must first have a dream.

11-18-2011, 10:18 PM	#20
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	And the time that will be had shall be said forevermore and henceforth to have been a gay old time. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

11-20-2011, 10:31 AM	#22
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	jimhelm, if you will excuse me, "honed" is not the right term though you use it in context. A metal blade can be honed, that is sharpened on a stone or strop to keen edge. Obsidian blades for scalpels are not "sharpened" this way. They're produced by knapping, knocking flakes from a larger piece. The flakes produced are the finished product for scalpel blades, at least as far as the edge processing is concerned. Obsidian is much like glass, and the edge of a broken piece of glass is already as sharp as it's going to get, it can't be honed sharper than a clean fracture. interesting link I found that made me think of Perry Winkle: http://www.theperfectedge.com/howto.shtml and one for footfootfoot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Crabtree __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

11-20-2011, 09:54 PM	#26
Big Sarge Werepandas - lurking in your shadows Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: In the Deep South Posts: 3,408	I order most of mine online. Plenty of knapping supplies on ebay. Novaculite is easy to get. Be sure to wear a mask or at list work outside due to the silica dust. Beer bottle bottoms are a practice meduim. Do you have a good supply of pitch and snew?i __________________ Give a man a match, & he'll be warm for 20 seconds. But toss that man a white phosphorus grenade and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

11-16-2011, 01:01 PM	#19
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Flint stones. Meet the Flint stones. Have a yabba dabba do dah time.

11-20-2011, 10:46 AM	#23
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	It's important because that is thought to be the first human technology, and teaching it across generations may have been the "booting" of human civilization.

11-20-2011, 07:35 PM	#25
Lola Bunny Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 2,728	Foot: You got your flint or obsidian yet?

11-20-2011, 10:18 PM	#27
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	I have plenty of pitch and sinew and now that deer season is hot underway I could get as much sinew as I could ever use. Beer bottle bottoms? I'll have to check that out. Still waiting on flint and obsidian, but I have a line on some... __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

11-21-2011, 01:04 AM	#28
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Wait wait wait wait wait... You want to make stone tools. You start by ordering online. Wow. Just #$%^ing wow. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

11-21-2011, 07:09 AM	#29
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Foot, my brother has been spending his weekends down at the "compound" and I haven't seen him. However, he can't avoid me at Thanksgiving, as dinner is at his house. Funny, though, mom said they were told to be there around 1 and they told me around 5. I'm kidding. I haven't forgotten you!

11-21-2011, 11:33 AM	#30
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	What is this about with your brother and the compound??? __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

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