Yeah, Piper, thanks for the great pics, and thanks for joining us.
That Flint River rock didn't even stay around long enough for me to get a good look at!
I've been debating about starting another thread, but I hope you don't mind if I add some more
pics on here to yours. There were definitely some surprise visitors who showed up,
like Tom here from the Winston-Salem area who says he has only been knapping for a couple years,
and some of Toms' work.
Now that's a regular 11 inch sheet of paper under the rhyolite slab those two points are sitting on.
One more pic of the big one trying to get some light behind it.
Here's a pic of a couple of Toms' pressure flaking tools.
So I'm going WOW! And he's only been knapping 2 years! Then these 2 guys show up.
A Father and Son team. I asked their names twice, but never made it over to my notebook
to write it down, and you know what they say about that short-term memory. But I believe
these guys are from the Wilmington, NC area.
RickB and Frank, seated on the right side of this pic, are both from the Columbia, SC area
but had never met before. And that's Jim from Canton, GA. on the left.
Rick has been knapping about 3 years. He works alot with the Savannah River agate/chert,
but here's a pic of some of his obsidian points.
THE GANG!
"Honest Officer, I hit that deer with my truck and it just ended up in the bed.
I don't know how that arrer got in it's side like that!"
Hmmmmm....looks like evidence to me.
Ya kno', I see Jim all the time, so maybe that's why I didn't take a good shot of him,
but here's one from above his station, where he was giving much needed and wanted
instructions to folks all weekend long.
Our bowyer didn't make it this time because he got a call Thursday about a stand of
Osage that the bulldozers were going to move in on Monday, but Joe the potter made it.
All in All, it was a great gathering. Even though it was too dry to have any campfires the
weather was perfect and the location seemed to work well. I'm looking forward to next year.
I had to save my favorite point of the weekend for the last pic. Steve, Hillbilly, made this out
of some of the Chatham county rhyolite I brought and gifted it to me. Thanks for the point Steve,
and for all you do to make this gathering as enjoyable as it is.
Hope to see y'all next year!
Joe