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Post by mr.hertzian cone Sun May 20, 2012 1:23 pm

[img]Glass Arrow - Page 2 Img_3816[/img]I had an idea for a source of coloured glass a while ago, Stained glass! I found a supplies shop locally and was stunned by the variety of colours, even swirls of different colours. The only problem was it was all too thin! 3mm thick to be precise, but there was this one pane which was cast a little too thick and was reduced to £5 for a 12" x 12" x 5mm. yay!
After several tries to make a long Ishi/wintu/desert side notch arrowhead I have managed to make this one! the material is a little thin still, but it will work.
The folk at the stained glass shop said that you can have thicker glass cast to order (any colour) but it will cost about £20 per sheet.Hmmm....I'm tempted, that's a lot of arrowheads....
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Post by mr.hertzian cone Sun May 20, 2012 1:28 pm

[img]Glass Arrow - Page 2 Img_3817[/img]This was my last attempt, finished and then dropped Mad
I really wouldn't have minded but the previous night I had done exactly the same thing! Grrr.
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Post by mr.hertzian cone Sun May 20, 2012 1:41 pm

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Post by Lumpendoodle Mon May 21, 2012 7:10 am

I'd just get the superglue out and not tell anyone about it Embarassed
That is just too nice a point to waste.
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Post by grendel Mon May 21, 2012 12:10 pm

The amount I've dropped and broken recently since leaving the UK and a carpeted floor, to an apartment with a tiled floor.
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Post by the barnacle Mon May 21, 2012 7:30 pm

ouch that break must of hurt, i think as said superglue is needed. super but of knapping.
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Post by Lumpendoodle Mon May 21, 2012 9:41 pm

Grendel wrote:The amount I've dropped and broken recently since leaving the UK and a carpeted floor, to an apartment with a tiled floor.

You're going to have to fling an old towel down onto the tiles. It will give you something soft to aim at.

It also makes collecting up all the shards a bit easier.
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Post by mr.hertzian cone Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:41 am

[img]Glass Arrow - Page 2 Img_4015[/img]This crazy Cahokia arrowhead was from the same piece of stained glass as the long Ishi arrowhead, I think it would make a nice neaklace but it would be a bit spikey.
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Post by the barnacle Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:05 am

wow your good. thats a great bit of knapping.
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Post by grendel Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:06 pm

Looks like a Shuriken, were there prehistoric ninjas?
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Post by mr.hertzian cone Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:55 pm

He he! It would be good to knap a big one. There's an Egyptian flint boomerang in the Ashmolean museum in Oxford, now that would be awesome to make...
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Post by Manystones Wed Sep 26, 2012 1:05 pm

Always worth looking at glass first through polarizing lenses. This should reveal whether it will be amenable to knapping or not.
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Post by grendel Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:30 pm

I've not heard of this technique. On a camera a polarising filter make the glass appear transparent, but I wonder how would it help determine knappability?
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Post by Lumpendoodle Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:57 pm

Manystones wrote:Always worth looking at glass first through polarizing lenses. This should reveal whether it will be amenable to knapping or not.

You whet my interest, could you explain the idea behind it working.
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