Making My own Flints

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  OK for some of you (Richard P. thank you) know I've been trying to make my own flints (no good flint I can find in Pa) so I broke down and order some from Kentucky Flint works (A great helpful guy)  and with Richards input wacked out something that might work(and 3 cuts 2 blood blisters)

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My biggest problem is how to thin out the fat flakes without shattering the flint(lots and lots of mistakes small shards)

[Daryl]

Those appear the same colour as Rich's river rocks (except for the black one).  Tough material.

[john bohan]

you could come to a knap in like bald eagle,hosted by bald eagle st park. check susquehanna flintknappers facebook page for info. you can get a lot of tips,and also buy stone there. Craig Ratzat would be a stone dealer that handles english flint.

[rich pierce]

You’re off to a good start for sure. Thinning a finished flint is not achievable without losing some length. Best to thin first then shorten to length. I can show you sometime on FaceTime.

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Rich pm sent I'm all thumbs (& old school flip phone) I need my 5yr old grandson to show me how to use(facetime) my Ipad 

[120RIR]

If you're interested and don't know about it yet, there are a couple of great videos from the 1940s or so ("movies") about the Brandon, England, gunflint knappers on YouTube.

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yup utube with the lock in/down lots of time to kill and also Will Lord has some along with paloman (check the spelling) all good I get a little from each .
Thanks

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here's part 2>>>---> thanks Rob
making my own flints has been a learning curve
made my ishee sticks from rifle cleaning rod , bonkers from copper pipe caps and antler,and rock

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lots of dangerous waist 

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so from this

to this

to flints( I hope , they seem to spark hot)

[rich pierce]

Nice work!

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trying to get to your standards Rich

[rich pierce]

If you bleach them nobody would know the difference! 

[Bob McBride]

If you bleach them nobody would know the difference! 

Rich, it seems you do what i do, forum hopping wise, I see you comment over there and over here almost simultaneously. I got 4 doz of your flints last month from Jerry R and I like em a bunch. Looking good Recurve!

[rich pierce]

If you bleach them nobody would know the difference! 

Rich, it seems you do what i do, forum hopping wise, I see you comment over there and over here almost simultaneously. I got 4 doz of your flints last month from Jerry R and I like em a bunch. Looking good Recurve!

Round, round, get around, I get around!

[Daryl]

I'm getting short of those Pierce River Rocks.

[Mike from OK]

trying to get to your standards Rich

I've got that same bluish-gray "flint" along one of the banks at a local creek, a big shelf of it. I've busted off several good chunks of it and tried to knap gun flints from it... And failed miserably. However I did get some very nice shards to use with my striker for firestarting.

Mike