Nice preform slab, is it one you made yourself, or did you buy it somewhere? Hug a puppy for me! 😄 I love that tri-flow, I have some of it I have collected from Glass Buttes, OR.
@@robwilcox2854 OH, Well as Guard of Emerald City said, "Why didn't you say so?" 'That's a Horse of a different color'. lol *Thanks* for letting me know, makes much more sense. Cool bit with sand or water in bottom. i'll keep eye on rubber mallet, after years i've had mine, shows I've not been breaking bottoms off bottles. *Cheers!*
@@kareno8634 fill the bottle to 3/4 fulm with water and then smack the top the bottom should just pop off, quickest and easiest way that i have found😎🤙unfortunatly i could not find my good mallet and used one that the face is all marked up
@@BladesPointsBySgp it is getting hot up here now,😅it is about a month behind friday is supposed to be 37C which is 98.6F by the end of July it gets into the mid to high 40’s
@@DannyCollinsLithicsAndLeather lots of failures before i figured it out, i was stuggling at first with my direct, i was relying to much on my indirect, so i devoted a butload of time working on thinning with direct only and i believe it now shows in my work with thin bi faces from the direct, before i start presure flaking😎🤙
@@sticksstonesandalittlemeta3517 when it comes to herbs my wife has butloads of info, she is 70% through her degree in herbal medicine, i asked her to make a diferent video every week🤙
I started knappjng because my wife was looking into her heratige and wanted some knapped stuff, all self taught by watching videos😎and thank you very much
Bummer man. I just recently started messing with glass again and having the same luck. I think for me on some glass colors I can’t see where I’m installing cracks. You stayed with it though.
Sometimes it is the age and quality of the glass, also how it was broke into pieces🤙i almost alway try to keep making untill the end, either a point or some scrap🤙
I did at first, i found that breaking into rock is easier with a hammerstone initialy but i need way more practice before i continue working the material into a bi-face
I wanna pick up some more obsidian soon. Been working some Hornstone here lately. Found an old 19in TV in the storage trailer. Gonna take it apart and try to cut the glass into preforms if it'll let me that is.
Last couple of TV’s i got i just tapped the screen with a hammer and collected all the glass then took the rest to recycling depot, Obsidian is one of the easiest things for me to come by other than my local black dacite
I’ve knapped quite a bit of glass. Plus I work for a glass company so I have a good supply of it. Lol. I will Knapp 3/8” thick bronze and gray glass and they really resemble obsidian. Man made glass is consistent all the way through. I never tried TV 📺 glass. Not yet anyways. Nice point!
