Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: mullet on November 28, 2008, 05:33:59 pm
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Here's a pretty little ,yellow quartzite point I made today. I was surprised how sharp that stuff is. I think this one is going on an arrow.
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Nice Eddie! How hard was it to knapp?
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David, it was really not bad. I'm going to do some more. I picked up a lot of chunks that Hillbilly and Robustus pulverised a year ago at Chris Cades. I love picking up rock bashers big flakes. ;) When I was at Chris' a couple of weeks ago, I found some nice big flakes that hillbilly left. I think it's Keokuc(sp), stuff chips like candy. :)
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all you people who have rock to play with that ya didn't have to pay for and have shipped to you make me sick! :)
thats nice point...
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sweet point Eddie, Don't see color like that around here. Thanks for sharing ;)
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Bowmo, If you saw glass buttes you'd be puking up a lung! ;)
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Nice one Eddie! I still can't do the percussion that Claude was showing me. I still can't get them thin. Driving me nuts!
I get some nice flakes, and then a gouge, and a nice flake, and then a crumbly blunt edge. Still trying though. Hey let me know when the Alifia rendezvous is going to be in Jan., and any other primitive get together, that isn't a thousand miles or so away.
Wayne
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Wayne when you get the gouge, crumbly edge, (stacking) it is from striking at too steep an angle. And grind that platform.Next time you come over I'll give you a book, it will help. And go on You Tube and look at some of the videos. There are some good ones.
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Will do.
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Nice'un Eddie. Yep, that's some of that yaller quartzite/case hardened steel that I drag out of the river behind the house-same stuff you were hatin' on a couple years ago and said it wasn't fit for anything but an abrading stone. ;D ;D Since you've developed a taste for it now, I'll trade you pound-for pound for some heated coral. ;D It does break sharp, I've got a couple of those triangles like that that I'm gonna put on arrows. And I didn't realize I left some big Keokuk flakes, I usually snarf them up. :)
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Well Eddie, I hope you learned your lesson. If you have a good thing going picking up discarded flakes, and spalls, keep quiet!
Now you just lost your edge...... ;D :D
Wayne
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Steve, It still makes a good abrading stone. You'd be suprised how many blades you can get out of it with a saw. ;D ::) The Keokuk was in front of the tent door next to the cedar tree. Somebody stacked them up , real nice. ;)
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If they were stacked up real nice, that was probably some big flakes I was saving and forgot to grab-finders keepers I guess. ;D I knocked out a big keokuk dalton preform down there. How does that quartzite slab? I'll send you a big box of it if you'll slice it up for us-I get some pieces sometimes that have really good color, but are too thick and square to percussion down.
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Good one Eddie! Nice amber color too - I'd be putin it on an arra too ;D.
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Nice point Eddie!!! :o
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Purty color eddie, nice chippin.
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sweet point! i need to start boxing all those discarded flakes up and selling them by the pound.
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No, No, No. I'll let James and Steve spall them for me. ;D
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Deadly point Eddie. I want to see some red stuff on it.
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Hah, hah, Me too, Jonathan.I want to see Red stuff, period. ;)
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You want to see some red stuff? Just watch me knapp!!
Wayne ;D :D
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Good looking point Eddie! I got some of Jesse's rock headed your way as of yesterday afternoon... ;)
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Yahoo!
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;D ;D ;D
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Nice point Mullet! I have the same issues as stickbender, which book?
Thanks Tracy
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Tracy, I liked Waldorfs books on knapping. Those were the first ones I ever had.
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Where'd that rock come from??? Around here, quartzite is the "real rock." I need to work my way up to it!
PD
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Pete, I think it came from a creek behind Hillbilly's house in N.C.
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Thanks Mullet. At least I have the right references, just operator error to work on mow ;D
Tracy
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Pete, yeah, that's out of the river near my house. I love working that stuff, but it's tough. I like to watch people like Robustus or Jack Cresson knap that stuff-they make it look easy.
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Yeah Steve! But, have you seen the pad they put on their leg to knapp the stuff? Man they just wail on that tough stuff! I kept cringing as I watched James work on the rhyolite! Sure would like to do a trade with him for a couple of his rhyolite hunting points though. That stuff is tough and just stays sharp! Anyone ever try grinding an edge on it?
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Hey Steve, you haven't see how easy I can make it look with my saw. ;)
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Hey Steve, you haven't see how easy I can make it look with my saw. ;)
Oh, dear GOD! Its a MODERNIST!!!! ;)