Has anyone tried this.... There is alot of petrified wood around the area I live in Colorado. I have a tendency to pick up pieces that I like looking at when I am "hiking" Few pieces end up on the windowsill so I can look at them awhile. One shard was there for a couple of days before I realized it had the basic shape of a rifle/musket flint. This pertified wood is hard and I was wondering if it would work on my smoothie. Has anyone tried this, just picking up a "rock" and clamping it in. Lots of what I read has said the the mountain men preferred flinters because with percussions they could run out of or lose percussion caps.
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As the mountain man said, "As long as ye got rocks, ye got fire!"
I did this once on a hunting trip.Knocked a spall off of a rock, and nibbled it to rough shape with the back of a knife. It worked just fine. Due to a flaw in the actual stone I used, I only got two shots out of it, but it surely can be done, and I'm sure it was done in the past. After all, supply of fine English or French flints was a long way off for some of those boys.
Most of the petrified wood I have seen is crumbly stuff, and it may shatter on you. Better to find some agate or similar.
good luck!
Gene
I did this once on a hunting trip.Knocked a spall off of a rock, and nibbled it to rough shape with the back of a knife. It worked just fine. Due to a flaw in the actual stone I used, I only got two shots out of it, but it surely can be done, and I'm sure it was done in the past. After all, supply of fine English or French flints was a long way off for some of those boys.
Most of the petrified wood I have seen is crumbly stuff, and it may shatter on you. Better to find some agate or similar.
good luck!
Gene
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Remeber that it is the frizzen that is sparking NOT the flint/stone.
If it is sharp and hard enough it will cause the frizzen to spark.
Woody
If it is sharp and hard enough it will cause the frizzen to spark.
Woody
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I too have quite a supply of Agatized Wood and it works quite well. I've been knapping my own flints for many years. Silicon Dioxide is a very common "rock" and is known as flint, agate, quartz, jasper, petrified wood, chert, citrine and other names. The color comes from a variety of impurities. The dry creek bed in my back yard is a constant source of good rock.
Some of that "good rock" include silver from the mines underneath the town?? :crackup:
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