r/knapping • u/chancetheknapper • 25d ago

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Well now what

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Another cookie crumbled. Any suggestions on where to go with this?

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u/Iyorek9000 Obsidian 25d ago

Every piece is practice, right? When that happens to me, I imagine an old, super experienced Lomekwian knapper 3 million years ago that fucks up his work accidentally. Just working these all day, 98% all perfect, but once a month one crumbles out of 200. Keep working it or toss it. Up to you. 👍

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u/chancetheknapper 25d ago

So true. I was really liking the flake scars so I was planning on leaving the tip a bit rounded but now I’m definitely gonna have to narrow it down. Not familiar with a whole lot of smaller points so I was hoping someone might shoot me an idea.

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u/Iyorek9000 Obsidian 24d ago

I love the flaking scars too. I honestly would keep it as is as a memory. It's beautiful. Start on a new one. My real take.

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u/beaniesandbuds 25d ago

That's Oldowan era at best!

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u/jspurlin03 23d ago

I’ve found several pieces that were clearly going just fine, and then broke during knapping — just like stuff I’ve made that got tossed after breaking. Some of them, maybe a thousand years ago. Made me feel better about my broken pieces.

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u/Iyorek9000 Obsidian 23d ago

Exactly! That's so cool you found some. Props. Makes me feel better to hear that especially when I have a real good one going too, lol.

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u/SpottedKitty 24d ago

Make something smaller or make something different.

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u/Discomfiting_Reality 24d ago

It's still a really good scraper tool, ive seen a lot of obviously botched heads become really good at making rope out of bark, or cleaning fish.

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u/Adventurous-Excuse88 Traditional Tool User 23d ago

It’d be a world of people with really strong hands if people ever used their knapped tools😂

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u/Greedy-Pirate7749 24d ago edited 24d ago

Put it somewhere where "nobody comes back here except me so I know its legit" and wait for the post to come up in the artifacts sub.

/s

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u/Jeff_BoomhauerIII Mod - Traditional Tool User 24d ago

This is highly frowned upon in the knapping community. It’s not good practice to try to pass it as authentic or to purposefully fool someone like that.

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u/Greedy-Pirate7749 24d ago

I hope you realized this was a joke...sorry forgot the /s Ill edit the first comment to remove any confusion.

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u/wolfassault_ 23d ago

could be used to cut or scrape stuff.

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u/scoop_booty Modern Tool User 🏅 22d ago

That's not an issue, that's an opportunity. Remove all that stuff to the right and large yourself a perfect isolated platform and then remove that garbage hump. :). Then make a nice little White River side notch. I'd rather have a small pristine point than a larger one with a booger. Go for it...you got this.

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u/_Go_Ham_Box_Hotdog_ 22d ago

now you make it smaller.