wood knapping billets
anyone ever use wood for knapping ?? I have heard about it- matter of fact I was telling Tom that Jack Cresson mentioned to me that there is evidence that the natives around this area (Richmond, VA)...
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G, There is good discussion on wooden billets going on right now on krugroups.yahoo.com/group/Knappers-R-Us/
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For osage I would think old fence posts would be the ticket. As a kid the farm we were on were osage posts left from grandpaw. These were so hard it was impossible to drive a nail into them without...
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Glenn, wood is the only way to go on the tough stuff like quartzite and rhyolite. I picked up some really course limestone-y chert in Tenn. last year that works better with wood than anything else,...
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I sat with james parker a few years ago at a bow shoot in hickory nc.He used a dogwood "club" on rhyolite and it realy did the trick!I made one a year later and it dos work.for spalling and stuff it...
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Glenn,Here's an excerpt from an article by Jack (I think from "The Mammoth Trumpet":"Of the eastern hardwoods, most with a specific gravity of .60 or more willwork. Specific gravity relates to...
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