Obsidian is definitely easier...

[GooseGossett]

So obsidian is much easier to flake.  Not the best of em all but it might fly.

[bushman]

Nice point, know go stick a deer with it.

[GooseGossett]

Here's my second point for the day.  All in all 2/2 hitting 100% for the day.

[Timo]

Goose, you are doing very well for just 2 weeks into it! (Did the super glue work for ya)

[GooseGossett]

Turns out the gel works much better than the liquid in stopping bleeders like me.

[iowabow]

You are only at it for two weeks and making points! Good for you man keep it up.  Get those on an arrow and hit something.

[Tower]

Man I must have been a slow learner. Some of these guys are making good points in just a few weeks. It took me quite a bit longer. Guess its all the good advice a person can get from this page.

[ordcorpdw]

Obsidian is easier than.......? Please say unheated chert! I have bunch of unheated chert that is kickin my butt!    maybe if I heat treat it. The first piece I made rubble. Second piece I got close to a knife blade then smacked it wrong and it broke in two. Maybe I should go back to points. Yours look really good!

[cowboy]

Those are lookin great! Keep on knappin .

[GooseGossett]

Thanks for the kudos.  Obsidian works much like glass.  Timo did say that it's the sharpest material out there.  I would agree when I came back in I had a sliver stuck in my forearm that I had no clue was stuck in about 1/8".  Had my wife not noticed it I might have bled on the couch.

[Bill Skinner]

 I have a love/hate relationship with obsidion, it works easy, makes great points, really sharp...but I really hate how a sliver in your finger turns invisible and you have to feel for it with the tip of a knife to get it out.  Bill

 

[Tower]

I'd rather knap a good chert. For me its easier to build pressuer on flakes. Obsidian releases to soon & it cuts me faster than other materials. But it does make very nice points.