I have a few friends who are master flint knappers and I got this stone knife in a trade with one of those guys. I mounted it on an antler from a small fork horn buck I had killed with a primitive bow some 20 yrs. ago. Hafted it with pitch glue and sinew wrap, and a couple strings of beads for decoration.
This is a display knife but is extremely well knapped and extremely sharp at its serrated edges, no doubt it would make quick work of skinning out a deer.
The second pic, held up with some light in the background, shows just how thin it is at the edges. Scott, my friend who made it turns out strikingly beautiful stone arrowheads and blades. The points in the picture were made by another friend.
Thanks for looking.
Greg
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Very nice. Both those are just beautiful. Must take some time to make those but it sure ends up as a work of art that has many uses. Like your Deer in the background too.
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Thanks Mike. I'm amazed at what these guys can do with a chunk of stone. I've watched the friend who made this knife kick out an arrowhead in much less time than I would have thought possible. I have absolutely no knapping skills but my 8 year old grandson has taken a keen interest in it and gets a few pointers for a couple guys a few times each year when we attend rendezvous together. He's been chipping away at a little stone and I think he'll stick with it and be the family's point maker.
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The whitetail in your picture has a huge rack something not seen with mountain living whitetails which due to genetics & feed never get a truly large rack.
Is this the deer you got with your "primitive bow" ?
kj
Is this the deer you got with your "primitive bow" ?
kj
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Yes KJ we're fortunate to have deer here in midwest farm country that can carry some nice racks. I took that deer in '95 with a shotgun not a bow. That
was the last year I gun hunted deer, been trying to get one like that with a bow ever since.
was the last year I gun hunted deer, been trying to get one like that with a bow ever since.
Greg
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Stone point from a friend and strapped to a antler of a old, not big,
but I am betting it was a special kill for one reason or another
don't reckon it gets much better huh Greg,
and you will have a hard time beating that whitey hangin on the wall
Will
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but I am betting it was a special kill for one reason or another
don't reckon it gets much better huh Greg,
and you will have a hard time beating that whitey hangin on the wall
Will
http://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/stagman