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. View this post on Google+ .
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 …
I completed half a dozen pressure flakers and one of my steel boppers. I burned the bopper into the handle and bent over about 1/2 inch that came out the back side so it doesn't come loose. The first handle I only got it half way in before it cooled off and locked into place. …
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Assembled some pressure flakers from a piece of dowel, bolts, and some twist hardened heavy gauge copper wire. I also made a couple of mild steel bopper heads. I don't know if these will work as most boppers are copper. Going to give it a try, if it works, I've a much cheaper way to …
