Still knapping

[LandSeig]

My most recent point, still trying to get the thinning down.

 

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[ToddsPoint]

Nice clean flake removals and good pressure edge work. You’ve got the basics. Now you need to get a bit more aggressive with thinning. Lower your platforms closer to the thickest areas you want to thin. Isolate the platform so it looks like a tab sticking out from the edge. Then drive the blow into the mass instead of knapping downwards. You have to drive the thinning flakes over half way across the biface or you will never get a flat cross section. This is one I chipped in ‘88.

 

[LandSeig]

I finished this one out a couple of weeks ago.

 

[ToddsPoint]

Nothing wrong with that one. It looks like raw rough flint. Raw flint is harder to work usually but it holds up much better than when heated.