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Offline DanaM

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Purple points
« on: June 28, 2009, 07:49:37 pm »
Chipped these out today from that chunk of 17th century iron smelting slag I found. I was
hoping to get a big blade but the first good hit broke it into three pieces :'( Had some freeze fractures, bubbles, and junk in it.
You can see in the big triangular point a hole that goes almost all the way through, ifin I could have gotten another flake or two it would have
been clean through but I wussied out :o The little stemmed was a corner notch until I popped the ear off :( Its works like obsidian but I've never seen
purple obsidian :)

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Offline sailordad

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Re: Purple points
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2009, 08:23:48 pm »
 :o DAMN BOY  :o

thats some purty slag,nice points Dana
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Offline cowboy

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Re: Purple points
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2009, 08:28:34 pm »
Now that's cool Dana! I ripped off some big blobs of slag like that from a glass recycler years ago. Now I know what your talking about :). Those are some nice points..
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Offline FlintWalker

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Re: Purple points
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2009, 09:34:45 pm »
Them look deadly Dana.  You done good spalling it out too.  I'd have got one, maybe two out of that chunk.
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Offline Timo

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Re: Purple points
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2009, 10:38:58 pm »
Cool stuff Dana! Nice points.
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Offline Pappy

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Re: Purple points
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2009, 07:48:09 am »
Nice points Dana.Very pretty work. :)
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Offline Jaeger

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Re: Purple points
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2009, 08:24:52 am »
nice work ,I tried some of that and it came off in layers like a cabbage or onion.lol
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Offline Bone pile

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Re: Purple points
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2009, 08:28:03 am »
Cool points Dana,to bad the sun wasn't out,still nice looking material.Your gettin'rather good at this.
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Offline DanaM

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Re: Purple points
« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2009, 09:57:37 am »
Shannon thanks for the vote of confidence but I didn't spall it, it broke in 3 when I whacked it :D

Jaeger this isn't glass slag its from the process of making pig iron back in the 1800's :)
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Offline J. DEMPLER

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Re: Purple points
« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2009, 10:04:33 am »
Good job DanaM!! Beautiful points!
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Offline xin

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Re: Purple points
« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2009, 01:00:56 pm »
DanaM, nice work , very pretty points.  Lets see some more of  this stuff.  thanks for sharing!!
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Offline GregB

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Re: Purple points
« Reply #11 on: June 29, 2009, 01:44:43 pm »
Those look really good Dana! :)
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Offline Jaeger

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Re: Purple points
« Reply #12 on: June 29, 2009, 03:16:04 pm »
most of it is green here it is on the side of the highway in the ditch  near an old privatly owned  furnace arouind here.
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Offline TRACY

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Re: Purple points
« Reply #13 on: June 29, 2009, 06:42:21 pm »
cool looking points! Purple and red would look good too ;D You going to use them?

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Offline jamie

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Re: Purple points
« Reply #14 on: June 29, 2009, 06:46:06 pm »
real nice dana. the slag here sucks.
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