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Offline iowabow

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points I made this week
« on: January 23, 2011, 08:13:53 pm »
Here are a couple of points made this week from some heat treated flint

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« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2011, 08:17:25 pm »
 Boy, you are cranking them out, good ones.
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« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2011, 09:47:01 pm »
Looking good
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« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2011, 09:56:00 pm »
Thanks any input would be helpfull also. This is the last of the junk stone I picked up. I can see that the glassier the stone the longer the flakes I can drive off. Anyone else have trouble driving long pressure flakes with Burlington stone that looks like the stuff I have in the pictures?
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« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2011, 06:34:41 am »
the grainier any stone is the tougher it is to work. you are doing great buddy
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« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2011, 09:06:05 am »
Thanks Jamie, I do like the color but not the grain part of the stone. I would like to find flint in the creek that is smooth like the tip of the larger arrowhead in the picture. I guess if you lived 1000 years ago you would know what type of flint and kind of arrowhead was best made from what material. Heat treating the stone made the larger flakes thinner and longer and required less force from the bopper to remove. Also I noticed it was less likely to step or hinge when striking the point.
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