I can't produce good flakes
So whenever I am knapping, all I can seem to chip off are short wide thick flakes instead of long narrow thin ones. If anyone has any ideas or advice please send them my way! If it helps at all, I get...
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When you log into this forum, look at the first several threads. They are discussions of of how to do all the basics in knapping. All of us have gone through the same problem, and the problem is...
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"short wide thick"... short is because of too much downward angle in the strike, and/or not hitting a platform where it's right at a convex ridge (on the bottom face). flakes like to run along...
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Being a novice at best, i couldn't have said it any better. :)
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freezecracked nailed it. there are a lot of variables that need to be controlled: surface preparation, platform preparation, angles, force. Someone shared some advice in another post around here,...
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