Small knife I knapped

[waco]

Made this little guy today. Dacite is the blade material. Hardwood dowel Handel, homemade pine tar, and synthetic Sinew.

 

[gman]

Very cool Waco!

 

[Ian]

Nice!

 

[Mitty38]

Nice work.

 

[Kevin Stenberg]

Are the edges of a knapped item as sharp as I have heard?

 

[Ian]

Obsidian will flake to one molecule at the edge and is probably the sharpest object known to man. Good chert is almost as good. There is a neurosurgeon at Baylor Scott & White who makes his own obsidian scalpels because nothing cuts cleaner or causes less scar tissue to form after surgery. If you cut yourself working it, you can just hold the wound closed for a couple of minutes and it will be almost healed if you don't force it open again for a couple of days.

 

[waco]

Obsidian will flake to one molecule at the edge and is probably the sharpest object known to man. Good chert is almost as good. There is a neurosurgeon at Baylor Scott & White who makes his own obsidian scalpels because nothing cuts cleaner or causes less scar tissue to form after surgery. If you cut yourself working it, you can just hold the wound closed for a couple of minutes and it will be almost healed if you don't force it open again for a couple of days.

True story.

 

[freebullet]

Lookin' good!

 

[JWFilips]

If you cut yourself working it, you can just hold the wound closed for a couple of minutes and it will be almost healed if you don't force it open again for a couple of days.

True story.

Walter; sounds like you are speaking from experience!

 

[S Mac]

When you play with razors your gonna get cut.

 

[uncle jimbo]

Nice work waco.

 

[Kevin Stenberg]

I looked on You Tube for how to knapp. With my wrists their is no way i could take up the hobby. I guess the only Knapping i will be doing is in a bed. LOL