Ive stuck with my nasty ole rhyolite and trying to learn on it in combination with learning abo. Well after watching Patrick's videos and learning his indirect percussion technique, not even close to his level, I finally got a point beat out. A flake that dove deep on me and hinged kept me from thinning the tip like I wanted it to. I compensated by leaving it a little thick on the opposite side and in turn, kind of fu-barred my edge. If you had looked at just one side before I shaped it up, it looked exactly like a Clovis on one side, by accident of course! I tried to stick true to North Carolina and the material by using a dogwood billet to bop a whitetail antler...and TRIED to make a Savannah River, but not sure exactly what the Savannahs have to have. Im just happy though. Entirely indirect percussion with the dogwood billet as a hammer to a whitetail billet the size of a quarter. I was pretty pleased with it being a piece from my debitage pile I had discounted.
Before I started shaping it while in "preform condition" it was around 6:1....now around 3.5:1, which after looking at a lot of rhyolite artifacts, I'm not too discouraged for it being my first.
Sorry for the less than ideal cell phone pics.
