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Offline RickB

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New Point
« on: January 27, 2012, 07:46:12 pm »
Finally got off my butt, went camping at Edisto Beach SC, and did some knapping this past weekend around the campfire. Here is a photo of my first point for the year. Light billet work but mostly pressure flaked from a slab of Flint River GA flint. 5" long and 1 1/2" wide. Enjoy, Rick B


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Offline TRACY

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Re: New Point
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2012, 08:19:48 pm »
Awesome point Rick! Material looks very workable. Like the color a lot

Tracy
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Re: New Point
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2012, 08:27:02 pm »
that's sweet, love the color, Bub
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Offline Tower

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Re: New Point
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2012, 09:24:00 pm »
Great color!  Very nice flake scaring. Love it!
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Re: New Point
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2012, 11:31:27 pm »
Nice !
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Re: New Point
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2012, 11:42:26 pm »
Very nice, Rick. Bet you got that slab from a mutual friend in N.C. ;D
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Offline RickB

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Re: New Point
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2012, 12:48:39 am »
Mullet, I got the slab from an older gentleman in LeGrange GA. I was at a rock dig there at the Hogg Mine and I spotted him selling some rock and knapping. I travel with my gear so I sat down with him and turned out an obsidian point while he was working on some Flint River. He liked the point I made, showed it to a few people, and said "here, try some of this Flint River and see what you can do with it". He gave me some pieces of it to try and I promptly went to work on a piece of it. Got in a hurry and snapped it in half trying to work around some cortex. Made a nice point out of one half though. Rick B
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Re: New Point
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2012, 01:41:58 pm »
Rick......Nice F/R and nice chipping......Good to see you posting points again  ....Looking fordward to seeing you at the Walk a bout farm knapp-in......
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Offline Jimbob

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Re: New Point
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2012, 03:11:28 pm »
Nice point!!  Where was that beach? With all this warm weather, I have been gettin the urge to go campin.
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Offline RickB

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Re: New Point
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2012, 04:42:53 pm »
JimBob, wife and I camp alot at Edisto Beach State Park here in South Carolina. I walk the beach looking for fossils, shark teeth and artifacts (pottery/points). Most afternoons I'll build a campfire and work on some rock.
Curt- I'll be there at your get together for sure. Stretch it out to 2 days this spring? Rick B
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Re: New Point
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2012, 04:47:10 pm »
Cool stuff, we always used to go camping up at Carolina Beach, NC.  I always had a good time.  Its been a while since I have been there and I hear that you now have to have a membership to get on the beach.
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Re: New Point
« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2012, 07:46:00 pm »
Hey Curt;
Are you gonna make the Dade City knap-in this year? It's gonna be a big one with a 1840 Rendevous also.
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Offline knap_123

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Re: New Point
« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2012, 11:28:11 am »
love that blade!!  f.r. is some of my favorite rock
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