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First attempt napping flint.

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A nail is soft steel and won't make sparks when knapping flint. I use a 16 penny nail and grind or file the point flat. Then you file a step at the now blunt end filed to a step. Functions well. I have also filed a notch in the blade of a turn screw to make a knapping tool.
 
Any endeavor calling for lots of beer is worth pursuing. Make sure you have adequate ventilation. No one needs a case of knapper's rot.
 
I might be wrong but I think he's dressing the edge of a flint for more/better spark I like pressure knapping or a short notched rod to freshen the edge
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Any endeavor calling for lots of beer is worth pursuing. Make sure you have adequate ventilation. No one needs a case of knapper's rot.
Never knapped a flint, my caps don’t need it, but being a person who turned 21 in the 60’s I can tell you that if its’ worth doing, its’ worth doing to excess..... knap away!
 
I have never even thought of knapping a striker for a flint lock rifle athough I have knapped a slew of arrow heads. A striker should be easier to knap than an arrow head due to its shape,Iwould think?
 
I have never even thought of knapping a striker for a flint lock rifle athough I have knapped a slew of arrow heads. A striker should be easier to knap than an arrow head due to its shape,Iwould think?


I’m not a knapper but I have a Friend that is good at arrow heads.
When I ask him if he could knap a gun flint, he said. Sure..... all you gotta do is chip away all the flint that don’t look like a gun flint.....
 
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