help on finishing this blade

[iowabow]

Ok I need help at this point.  I dont know what I should do next.  I was able to make a good flake pattern on one side as seen on the first picture.  The other side I have not pressure flaked yet.   Exactly what should I do next?

[Tower]

I'd clean up the edges & make an Angostura or some other paleo type point.

[nugget]

I would send it to me and then you wouldnt have to worry about it.

[jamie]

put an edge on it and call it very well done

[iowabow]

Ok this is where I stop. I am afraid that I am going to snap it.

[Timo]

Turned out nice! Now you got yourself a blade,that is needing a handle.

[mullet]

You did good, you have come a long way in a short time. Or you aren't ADD like me and pay attention .

[iowabow]

Thanks for all positive words and help.  I think I can get the work even thinner if I set up the biface earlier and work more careful in the beginning.   Also just as I put the final pass of pressure flakes I had a platform break in the moon shape again like the way it did with the KY blue flint.   I think I am abrading the edge too heavily.  This is causing the flake to break to high.  Also I have a nice piece of an arrowhead that I found in the creek and it looks like the deltas were pushed off at an angle rather than along the ridge.

[iowabow]

I found this in the creek a couple of weeks ago.  I really have learned a lot form this Small fragment.  I want to see what you thought about the lower right side. If you look closely you can see that the delta was not push inward but at and oblique angle 2 or 3 times real small.  He must have used a real sharp point to make such small flakes. What do you all think about the edge? Have you see similar techniques on other points? 

[jamie]

i use the same technique when pressure flaking. flakes will travel further when pushed off at an angle rather than straight in. as for the little flakes, bone will pop small flakes like that off. takes very little pressure too. when i sharpen the pount with an ulna or even leg bone i use the angle method toawards the tip. this way the cutting edge doesnt get touched by the tool after the flake is removed.