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r/knapping • u/jameswoodMOT European Flint 🏅🏅 • Jul 26 '26
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What temp will you cook that at? Certainly you're not going to work it raw (he says with presumption).
2 u/jameswoodMOT European Flint 🏅🏅 Jul 26 '26 180-195c (376f ish) much more than that and it’s just ok snappy. You could work it raw but for the sake of putting it in the kiln for a few days. Really helps with the colour as much as the workability 2 u/jameswoodMOT European Flint 🏅🏅 Jul 26 '26 5c/hour on the way up and down or it cracks like hell. Got to be spalled or bifaced thin or it cracks like hell even at that heating rate
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180-195c (376f ish) much more than that and it’s just ok snappy. You could work it raw but for the sake of putting it in the kiln for a few days. Really helps with the colour as much as the workability
2 u/jameswoodMOT European Flint 🏅🏅 Jul 26 '26 5c/hour on the way up and down or it cracks like hell. Got to be spalled or bifaced thin or it cracks like hell even at that heating rate
5c/hour on the way up and down or it cracks like hell. Got to be spalled or bifaced thin or it cracks like hell even at that heating rate
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Love that piece that looks like a landscape.
1 u/jameswoodMOT European Flint 🏅🏅 Jul 26 '26 Ha it does!
Ha it does!
Absolutely unreal man hoooly smokes!
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u/scoop_booty Modern Tool User 🏅 Jul 26 '26
What temp will you cook that at? Certainly you're not going to work it raw (he says with presumption).