Author Topic: What would you call it? (Read 2155 times)

Parnell · « **on:** January 03, 2014, 05:46:44 pm »

I've been wanting to make a spear of my own for so long and I finally got a head worthy of it on the New Year! Don't know the rock type...don't know the style. Just sort of happened. Made the arrowhead today. They are improving!

Trapper Rob · « **Reply #1 on:** January 03, 2014, 07:00:36 pm »

Nice work I found one in our fields that looked like that type you made.

mullet · « **Reply #2 on:** January 03, 2014, 09:36:05 pm »

I'd call it SWEET!

seminolewind · « **Reply #3 on:** January 04, 2014, 12:27:35 pm »

Nice dude what's the black material?

Knapper · « **Reply #4 on:** January 04, 2014, 03:04:39 pm »

I'd call it "job well done"
Knapper

Parnell · « **Reply #5 on:** January 04, 2014, 03:17:52 pm »

I can't say I know, Elijah. A piece from a bucket at the knapp in. Wish I had more!

Zuma · « **Reply #6 on:** January 05, 2014, 12:58:45 am »

Hi Parnell.
I would go with Helderberg chert for the black one, if the material came from central eastern PA. If it came from southwest AR. a possibility could be Pitkin chert. There are a lot of black cherts in many other Devonian formations
but most do not lend themselves for points as large as yours. Grain of salt lol
Zuma

Bone pile · « **Reply #7 on:** January 06, 2014, 08:16:58 am »

Pointy rocks rock. Maybe Dacite on the black one .Good job on both
roger

Dalton Knapper · « **Reply #8 on:** January 06, 2014, 11:50:18 am »

The triangular one is difficult to pin down because there were a whole slew of triangular points made in many geographic regions. You could call it a Fresno or if you hollow the base slightly, you could call it a Cam Creek or Del Rio point. I have attached a reference to triangular points in Texas: http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/st-plains/prehistory/images/unstemmed.html

The other one looks to me like black Novaculite due to not having much luster. Pitkin is almost always very shiny and often produced a sulfurous or "burnt motor oil" smell when knapped (FYI). It could be other material. If there is any small traces of white matrix, I would go with Novaculite, but not all grades of black Novaculite have any matrix. As far as a name, you might look up Mineral Springs or Gahagan knives.

Regardless, nice work and nice to see.

Parnell · « **Reply #9 on:** January 06, 2014, 05:11:24 pm »

The black stuff must be a chert of some sort. It's not Dacite...it's got more of a grain, not glassy. Oh well, it worked! Just got to make some pine pitch and I'll have it hafted. Got the bamboo pole and the rest ready to go.

JackCrafty · « **Reply #10 on:** January 06, 2014, 09:04:01 pm »

The larger one looks like a Scottsbluff and the smaller one looks like a Madison or Fort Ancient.

mullet · « **Reply #11 on:** January 07, 2014, 11:26:49 am »

The black looks like some of the Ryolite I had in my bucket or that other rock that started with an "A", can't remember the name, from New York or Penn. I did have some very grainey Dacite at the knap-in also.

Parnell · « **Reply #12 on:** January 07, 2014, 01:22:22 pm »

It didn't knap at all like Dacite. Much more tough.

mullet · « **Reply #13 on:** January 07, 2014, 05:17:58 pm »

If it was tougher then black Ryolite it must have been some of that "Holey Sheezit, toughfern, then all get out, black, concrete". You did good.

Primitive Archer

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