bulk deal on flints

[hanshi]

It's been a while since I got the ones I ordered.  Lots of big, and I mean big, flints, some the right size, some pieces that just happened to fit in Large Silers, and a few easily used as-is or broke to the right size.  I still have most of them left and what I've used so far seemed to work just fine.  Quite a few were amber flints and most were dark flints.  I'd say it was worth it.

[john bohan]

you can trim or resharpen flints on a lapidary saw or trim saw.you hold them only with your finger. Harbor freight has one that works good .

[okawbow]

I just received a pound of their flints. $29.95 plus about $9.00 shipping. Counted 40 usable flints and 5 rocks.
About 20 were decent quality musket flints. The rest had humps or were odd shaped, but usable. A few would fit my Davis Colonial lock well.

Good value if you need musket flints. A bonus that they are over 200 years old.

 Some are large enough to saw in half and get two usable flints.

[B Kauffman]

4 years later I think I got the bag of flints Tony had and returned hahahaha


they were to be hand selected...yikes.

at .90 a flint Ill knap and use what I can.

[J.D.]

Sounds like  I got lucky. I bought two pounds of flints, last summer. There were 110 flints, in that batch, of which, about 20 were not usable, or salvageable. Most of those Ok to good flints fit Chambers large locks and fusil locks and the rest were definitely musket flints, which is OK too. The OK flints could use a little work, but about a third of them were good to go, as they were.

[Leatherbark]

Had to order 2 pounds.  One pound not available on 01/07/2025.  Hope the cherry-picked ones were worth the extra $

Bob.

[bones92]

Is there a Dremel bit that works well on cutting these?  The diamond wheel, perhaps.    Also, can we grind the striking edge with a dremel bit, or does it have to be knapped?

I'd like to see some videos on how to work these. 

[recurve]

if you grind use a good mask the dust is Very bad for your lungs

Did someone say knapping
    works for resizing to