flint

[tg]

I am not familiar with that type but have seen English nodules and American flint and Cherts advertised for 2-3 bucks a lb. plus shipping, I would want to know how well the blue stuff sparked before I paid that much for it, sometimes the shape of the piece you start with limits the usefullness/number of flints or spauls you can get out of it, depending on what method of making flints you are going to use. I got a 5 lb. nodule of English a couple of years ago that was basicly worthless as it was so knobby that I got very few flints out of it, I could only strike a few spauls and not any long flakes that could be broken into "English" type flints.

 

[weasel]

I am begining to knap my own flints and at a local gem store they have a 7 to 8 lb spall of dark blue flint they want 40 bucks for it does this sound resonable? I don't have a clue weasel

 

[musketman]

Track of the wolf has English gun flint, unopened package of 50 gun flints, about 1-1/4 x 1-1/2 $48.00 That works to .98 cents each.

For the sake of this comparasion, I'm estimating that each weigh about a half an ounce each.

So that would be 25 ounces, or 1.56 pounds for the bag of 50 flints.

"IF" the dark blue flint compairs close to the english flint, and "IF" you were able to use all of the 8 pound rock and make "GOOD" usable gun flints, then these figures should look like this...

8 pounds = 128 ounces = 256 half inch flints @ .98 cents each, will produce $250.88 of flints.

"IF" it sparks...

 

[tg]

I am not certain what percentage of a perfect pice of flint would yeild flints but I would think that it would be in the 50% range may be a bit more from what I have experienced with less than ideal pieces, and this would require the English nethod of striking long flakes off a piece that roughly looks like a foot ball on end cut in half as a striking platform.