4.25" Knife / Hole in the blade

[Ron Kelley]

This was kinda fun knapping a knife with a hole in the blade. The waste flake just to the right of the blade came from the area with the hole. This four and a quarter inch knife is Buckskin Chert. I'm probably stating the obvious here: When working a thin rock i have to take smaller percussion flakes.

[TJdave]

Super impressed. You call them waste flakes, I call them future arrow points/hafted scrapers. Does the whole affect the direction you flake from? Looks like you went parallel but you can see it flaked thru the whole. From the size of the flakes looks like it started skinny, tough work

[Ron Kelley]

Thanks Dave, Even the pressure flakes went past the hole. You're right: My debitage pile is several hundred pounds of flakes that could be used. I spend most of my knapping time making big knife blades.

[TJdave]

As I get experience I will move to bigger stuff, but for now just functional dart points. So many questions on that hole, logic tells me its harder or softer from the inclusion and should behave different then the materiel, yet it didn't my minds blown TBH.

I save ALL my flakes like some deranged squirrel putting acorns up

[beatup1354]

another sweet piece Ron

[oldrocks2]

Very well done and a unique point.

[redrocks]

Cool point Ron

[willjo]

Neat when that happens, I have found a few like that the N.A.'s made

[SurfaceHunter]

Nicely made piece.