AWESOME! I made something. Arrowheads!

[LeeBishop]

So, I thought I'd try to make some stone arrowheads. I figured that I need to start practicing and make some now so that I can use them to hunt with next deer season after I make myself a bow.

Here are my first, second, third and fourth attempts at making heads from left to right.

The big one is around 2'' or so. It's fun. I made birdpoints from the small scrap flakes I had from breaking spalls(#1) and knapping the big arrowhead(#3 & #4).

I have found myself a new hobby      

I figured that if a caveman could make them then I should be able to as well.

 

 

Cool!

Bisch

[Thumper Dunker]

Good job.  

[rdoggsilva]

They really look good

[JimL]

Nice

[J.Williams]

They look good and deadly.You're a natural!  

[Duker]

AWESOME    Its been about 10 years since I've made some arrowheads so I know they take a lot of time and hard work  

[straitera]

Great job! Interested to know how you learned?

[JamesKerr]

Nice work!

[LeeBishop]

Originally posted by straitera:
Great job! Interested to know how you learned?

Well, I'm a bit of an autodidact. I didn't grow up with an outdoors kind of dad or one that was around the house much. So, I tend to teach myself how to do things and I read up on what interests me. I've taught myself how to fish, fly fish, tie flies, shoot guns, hunt, use bows, etc.

But with this I watched a YouTube video from Billy Berger with him working over a couple of pieces.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNw3UWRTNg  

I had a couple of small antlers lying around I was going to use for knife handles (so much for that) and I cut the tines off and fashioned tools to knap with.

I cut the main beam(between T2 & T3) to create a soft hammer to flake, I picked up a smooth river stone from our river for a hard hammer, I used two tines for general pressure flaking and another for cutting the tangs that I grinded down to a smaller tip, and I picked up a $6 bag of thick scrap leather from Hobby Lobby to use for a leg and hand pad.

From there it was just playing. I just envisioned the shape that I thought I could make out of the size of obsidian that I had and then I got to work trying to thin it down and shape it.

[Lincoln Ribeiro]

Beautiful! It'll fit very nice on tokin cane shafts. Congratulations.

[LeeBishop]

I took a break from graphics creation and thought I'd try making a long birdpoint from a flake. I'm surprised I didn't break off the tip. Its about 1/4'' shorter than before because I had to redo the base since one of my pressure flakes took off too much material while cutting a notch.

I have to say that I don't really like this obsidian. It's FAR too brittle. I need to try and find some good chert or flint.

 

[Benny Nganabbarru]

 

That is cool!

[sleepyhollow]

Also try dacite

[razorsharptokill]

Keokuk is nice to work with. Dacite is like obsidian but not as brittle or as dangerous to knapp. Keep up the good work!