Sharpening flints?

[beardedhorse]

I knap my own gun flints but like to collect those no longer sparking well or knappable. Need a thousand or so to put into a box with a reproduction label for show and tell when I teach to show what a box of gunflints at the trading post or going out to rendezvous might look like.

 

[M. De Land]

Phil McMasters front Canton, NY had a wheel for a bench grinder that he called a Green Wheel that worked fantastic!

Thats what I have used for about a decade but a water lubed diamond wheel for emerald shaping is far better.

 

[Timber Wolf]

I knap my own gun flints but like to collect those no longer sparking well or knappable. Need a thousand or so to put into a box with a reproduction label for show and tell when I teach to show what a box of gunflints at the trading post or going out to rendezvous might look like.

Sounds like a good reason to buy a few pounds of the bulk Nepalese flints from IMA.

 

[hawkeye2]

Not a great bargain, check some of the posts on them.