Taming the High Ridge "Hump Back" english flint

[roundball]

I'm glad to report that "SquireJohn's" recently posted tip of gluing a pad of leather on the back slope of a high ridge hump back english flint works great!!
I cut some small pads of 1/8" thick scrap leather, lined up a row of high ridge 'hump back' flints, put a big dab of
contact cement on the back slope, pressed a pad of leather in place and let them sit overnight.
Put the modified flint in a regular piece of flint leather and they mount in the jaws like normal, no odd angles or squeezing forward when the jaws are tightened, etc...great tip SquireJohn, thanks

 

[musketman]

Say, this would be a prime candidate for the new TIPS catagory when it come out... ::

 

[djnye]

another soluion "in a pinch" would be to turn the flint over putting the ridge against the fixed surface of the lower jaw and the flat surface against the moveale upper jaw.

take care, daniel

 

[No Powder]

At the risk of starting more puns are these "Hump Back Shale" :: The leather thing does sound like a rock solid idea.

 

[Crow-Feather]

I used those humped back flints for so long, I thought they were right side up when they were upside down.

C F