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Offline Parnell

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What would you call it?
« 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!
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Offline Trapper Rob

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Re: What would you call it?
« 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.
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Re: What would you call it?
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2014, 09:36:05 pm »
I'd call it SWEET!
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Re: What would you call it?
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2014, 12:27:35 pm »
Nice dude what's the black material?
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Re: What would you call it?
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2014, 03:04:39 pm »
I'd call it "job well done"
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Offline Parnell

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Re: What would you call it?
« 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!
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Offline Zuma

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Re: What would you call it?
« 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
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Offline Bone pile

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Re: What would you call it?
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2014, 08:16:58 am »
Pointy rocks rock. Maybe Dacite on the black one .Good job on both
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Offline Dalton Knapper

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Re: What would you call it?
« 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.
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Offline Parnell

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Re: What would you call it?
« 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.
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Re: What would you call it?
« 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.
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Re: What would you call it?
« 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.
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Offline Parnell

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« Reply #12 on: January 07, 2014, 01:22:22 pm »
It didn't knap at all like Dacite.  Much more tough.
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Re: What would you call it?
« 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. :)
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