Originally Posted by
cayugad
Yes I get a few of the humpback black english flints. But with a channel lock and a dremel tool with a muzzy wheel, I can shape them to fit so sweet in the jaws of my rifles, and then they never move.
I agree Bronco, that humpback is the fault of the knapper. Its funny that MD felt the back english chipped off in chunks sometimes, because that is the one thing I remember the french flint doing. It was like the second strike on the frizzen and the entire side just broke. I remember it because I cursed the flint ... something about cheap what ever for the price.
Dave...
Was that some kind of magic wheel you used on your Dremel? I used to take flints in to work and shape them on a special wheel that was made for sharpening tungsten carbide tooling and even that was no walk in the park, flint is some pretty darn hard stuff!
BPS