Source in Canada for Flints

I wouldn’t buy from things military. His are just spalls and poor quality. I forget who the supplier was but there was a supplier for English gunflints in Ontario. They carry the same flints as track of the wolf.
 
I know you are looking for a Canadian source and commend you for that. However, if you look at the pricing for bags of 50 at Stonewall Creek Outfitters in the US and do the math - including shipping, I believe you will find they are quite a bit less expensive. They are a mom & pop operation that has great service and excellent products. They carry both black English and French amber and, as with other members of our club, are my go-to source.
 
B_noser said:
I know you are looking for a Canadian source and commend you for that. However, if you look at the pricing for bags of 50 at Stonewall Creek Outfitters in the US and do the math - including shipping, I believe you will find they are quite a bit less expensive. They are a mom & pop operation that has great service and excellent products. They carry both black English and French amber and, as with other members of our club, are my go-to source.
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I would just die to see them ITAR restricted or held by CBSA:ROFLMAO:
 
How difficult would they be to make if one finds a source of flint? I mean, there's lots of flint in Ontario. Idk what the quality of it is, but it can be had.
 
Painkillers said:
How difficult would they be to make if one finds a source of flint? I mean, there's lots of flint in Ontario. Idk what the quality of it is, but it can be had.
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are you sure that it is flint and not chirt. Both are sedimentary rocks but I am told that chirt needs to be annealed before it can be worked. You need to be able to drive spalls off of a large piece then break the spalls into individual flints
 
mooncoon said:
are you sure that it is flint and not chirt. Both are sedimentary rocks but I am told that chirt needs to be annealed before it can be worked. You need to be able to drive spalls off of a large piece then break the spalls into individual flints
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Plenty of both chert and flint in southern Ontario. I don't believe stone can be annealed, or why it would have to be to spark off steel?
 
Painkillers said:
Plenty of both chert and flint in southern Ontario. I don't believe stone can be annealed, or why it would have to be to spark off steel?
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Watch a bunch of flintknapping videos, and do some reading, and you will soon learn that heat treating knapable stone is (and has been for likely millions of years!) a thing that is done. Some guys simply chuck the rock in the fire when it's going good, and get them back when the fire has burned out, others have played around with different gas and electric ovens. It can, in some stones, make the entire difference between being workable, and not, while in other stones, it does not change the workability of it.

It is, to be pedantic, not exactly an annealing process as is used in metal terms, but it IS a heat treatment. Glass blowers do a similar process with their products, as it allows them to be handled and used without immediately shattering at the first minor impact, from the stresses trapped in the material on initial cooldown. Also, in glassware, they purposely induce stresses in safety glass (car windows, etc.) so it DOES break into gravel, rather than great bloody flying shards, when it is broken...

Based on what I have seen, it would do a fella some good to do some research into blade and core technology, there are a few videos out there, they will give you some idea how to preform the core so that successive linear blades of the correct shape can be got from the core, ready to be broken off as individual flints.

 
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