working hard on the flint knapping exhibit

[Pat B]

y nice, John. Are you using ABO tools to build it? 

[AncientTech]

Hats off to you for supporting a museum.  Museums are like windows that help us see into a world much bigger than the world that we know.  Along with the lithics you may want to consider showing photos of flakers, and hammerstones, that are routinely found in American archaeological sites.  I have a few flaker photos around, if you need some.  The records of flakers span from the advent of the archaic era, in many areas, right into the proto-historic era.  Some flaker types are commonly recognized, and some are not.  By the way, the woodwork is amazing.  I could never use handtools, very well...Lol.       

[iowabow]

y nice, John. Are you using ABO tools to build it? 

they ask for an ABO exhibit of points. Most of the stone used for making the points came from my creek and the wood trim, reader boards, and cabinets are made from that lumber that I cut with the chain saw mill three or four years ago.

[iowabow]

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Hats off to you for supporting a museum.  Museums are like windows that help us see into a world much bigger than the world that we know.  Along with the lithics you may want to consider showing photos of flakers, and hammerstones, that are routinely found in American archaeological sites.  I have a few flaker photos around, if you need some.  The records of flakers span from the advent of the archaic era, in many areas, right into the proto-historic era.  Some flaker types are commonly recognized, and some are not.  By the way, the woodwork is amazing.  I could never use handtools, very well...Lol.     

Thank you A.T. I cut, planed, sanded, and stained all of the wood work and made all of the trim and reader boards and my friend Matt, who is also a member and bow maker built the 8 foot tall cabinet from this Wood also. The projectile points in this exhibit took me  1 1/2 years to make and will include the works of many other knapper across the USA.

[iowabow]

Little more progress

[Parnell]

Read the article.  Looking real good, very interesting project!

[nclonghunter]

Beautiful...getting close I think

[iowabow]

Fake dirt. I am almost done.....two more days

[bowmo]

Lookin good man.

[iowabow]

Thanks Daniel, the fake dirt was finished last night. Tonight the glass gets installed and the arrowheads will be released to the museum on Thursday. This will bring to a close the project. I will take some more finished pictures with everything installed next week..

[Parnell]

Really looking forward to seeing it all put together, John.  Bet you are really excited to wrap it up.

[nclonghunter]

Your work is top notch. That looks like a really nice museum from the pictures showing the other displays in the background.

[crooketarrow]

 I  agree your a good carpenter.

[JW_Halverson]

Your work is top notch. That looks like a really nice museum from the pictures showing the other displays in the background.

I wonder who painted the background in the diorama that you can see in that photo?   

[iowabow]

Jw here is a sample/closeup of the diorama