This could fit into several forums but it fits in with the stuff I'm making more than else where I reckon.
I'm in the process of replicating various forms of tinder box for my own entertainment and to finish them I like to fit them out as they would have been back in the day. To this end I had copies of tinder flints I'd seen in museums made and tried to preserve them by using bits knocked off a lump of Flint like most do for actually making fires. Unfortunately the knapped ones work so much better than random chunks so given the chance the sons etc do use the fancy ones so I'm down to just a few. I was going to get a dozen more from my usual source but he has since got a shiny website and his price has tripled. Fair enough but too rich for my blood.
I've tried knapping myself but don't have a aptitude so I'd have to put more time into it to become at all competent ( if I could get that way ) than I'm prepared to. I do have some skills so thought I could trade something I've made or aquired rather than resort to spending money I don't have. From my threads you can see what I do, beeswax and tallow candles, restored tools, blanks for spoons, sulphur matches etc etc amen.
What I'm after are basically the cores that you get from making gun flints. Roughly, very roughly, they should be like this one I saw in a museum near Oxford.
If any of you knappers can assist I'd be profoundly grateful!
ATB
Tom
I'm in the process of replicating various forms of tinder box for my own entertainment and to finish them I like to fit them out as they would have been back in the day. To this end I had copies of tinder flints I'd seen in museums made and tried to preserve them by using bits knocked off a lump of Flint like most do for actually making fires. Unfortunately the knapped ones work so much better than random chunks so given the chance the sons etc do use the fancy ones so I'm down to just a few. I was going to get a dozen more from my usual source but he has since got a shiny website and his price has tripled. Fair enough but too rich for my blood.
I've tried knapping myself but don't have a aptitude so I'd have to put more time into it to become at all competent ( if I could get that way ) than I'm prepared to. I do have some skills so thought I could trade something I've made or aquired rather than resort to spending money I don't have. From my threads you can see what I do, beeswax and tallow candles, restored tools, blanks for spoons, sulphur matches etc etc amen.
What I'm after are basically the cores that you get from making gun flints. Roughly, very roughly, they should be like this one I saw in a museum near Oxford.
If any of you knappers can assist I'd be profoundly grateful!
ATB
Tom
