11/28/11 In album 11/28/11 Blocks to hold the anvil to the trailer in case of an accident. View this post on Google+ .
Yearly Archives: 2011
11/28/11
11/28/11 In album 11/28/11 Looking down on the anvil. You can see it’s captured into the trailer. View this post on Google+ .
I made some pressure flaker blocks and some longer pressure flakers tonight
The long flakers are called ishi sticks, and the pads are unique in design as best as I can tell. We shall see if the work well tomorrow. I also burned out the rocket mass forge trying to finish the one bopper I made. The inner burn chamber is a puddle of melted metal on …
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A tour of my rocket mass forge and my gas grill forge and some blacksmithing.
A tour of my rocket mass forge and my gas grill forge and some blacksmithing. View this post on Google+ .
I got a little carried away tonight
I made about 3 dozen 'disposable' flint knapping pressure flakers. I say they are 'disposable' as they don't have an adjustable tip like a nice tool would. Once they wear out, they are junk. I made the handles several different lengths as a wide variety of people will be at the flint knapping session on …