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Pilgrim |
I have heard talk of white flint. I am building my first flint and don't know much about the tools or the parts. I was hunting today and found a strange white rock, probably what it is, and was just wondering. Blackie | ||
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Booshway |
Rich Pierce out of the St. Louis area makes and sells gunflints that are white. Flint can be many colors and shades. | |||
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Pilgrim |
Thanks for the information. What I found might be flint then. | |||
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Pilgrim |
put steel to it an see if it sparks | |||
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Pilgrim |
Regular Joe going to do that today. | |||
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Factor |
Well knapped, it is roughly equal to E. black. *Young guys should hang out with old guys; old guys know stuff.* | |||
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Booshway |
I'm never one of the lucky fellas to just run across flint here and there, so I've found miriads of other stones that work almost as well: Granite, quartz, obsidian, jasper (I don't recommend using jasper. It's kinda hard to get, and I think it also might be worth more than a piece of flint! ), etc... "Return unto me, and I will return unto you," saith the Lord of hosts. ~Malachi 3:7b | |||
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Pilgrim |
Well I got a chance to strike the white rock on some steel and no sparks. Guess I got fooled. would not know a good sparker if I found one but I will learn. | |||
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Booshway |
Granite? Surprised it sparks. Quartz actually can be a bit too hard for good sparks but should work if you can find the right size/shape. Jasper is excellent for gunflints. Yes, expensive. Can be purchased sawn from Gunter Stifter in Germany. | |||
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Booshway |
"some steel"? What kind? Was it a good hard fire steel? Will known flint spark with it? | |||
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Booshway |
Actually the white looking rock that we have is called chert. Similar to flint and good enough for our purposes. | |||
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Pilgrim |
Rifleman 1776 I used teo different files and neither one of them would spark with known flint so still not sure. | |||
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Booshway |
We don't have a great deal of variety of stone where I live in Florida. Mostly just limerock and chert, which is generally a pale, light tan in color. I've never tired it for sparks, but it was used by the indigenous people for projectile points. There is a very pale, white stone called Novaculite that is often used for projectile points. I don't know if this is the material used for "white flints" or not, but it may be. Notchy Bob "Should have kept the old ways just as much as I could, and the tradition that guarded us. Should have rode horses. Kept dogs." from The Antelope Wife | |||
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Booshway |
Chert is flint. Try it, you might be surprised. Novaculite is best known as Arkansas whetstone. It is cut into gunflints and sold. Not very popular but there are claims it works very well. It comes in a variety of colors. As far as knapping qualities, I don't know. Again, try it and let us know. | |||
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Booshway |
actually flint is a colored/dark version of chert..
http://www.theaaca.com/Learning_Center/flintvs.htm and both are a type of fine grained quartz which is a silica mineral. Several type of such fine grained quarts are included under the general term chert: jasper, chalcedony, agate, flint, porcelanite, and novaculite. Flint is gray to black and nearly opaque (translucent brown in thin splinters) because of included carbonaceous matter. Opaque, dull, whitish to pale-brown or gray specimens are simply called chert; the light colour and opacity are caused by abundant, extremely minute inclusions of water or air. The physical properties are those of quartz. aka Chuck Burrows | |||
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Pilgrim |
Cert is considered an impure form of flint,about 90% quartz. Examples of true flint are found in the chalk beds of England,Denmark and other locations in NW Europe.Nodules that are very close to the true flint can be found in the Austin Limestone deposits of central TexasThis message has been edited. Last edited by: mischief, | |||
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Greenhorn |
Rifleman1776: There is a place in Maine known either as "jasper cove" or "jasper beach" My dad showed me the place when we were touring the New England states back in 1976. The entire beach was comprised entirely of jasper pebbles. Aside from the fact it is on the coast, I have no idea of exactly where it is, but as I remember there were two radar domes on the other side of the cove. Maybe someone familiar with Maine knows knows where it is located. Dick Gun control means being able to call your shots | |||
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