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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: james parker on December 22, 2010, 09:53:37 pm

Title: Souletrean Spear
Post by: james parker on December 22, 2010, 09:53:37 pm
Here is a spear that I made last week to take with me on the hunt to kill pigs with Mecslasher and Mullet.  I hope to have the opportunity to stick a pig or at least throw the spear at a pig.  Guess we'll have to wait and see.   :D 
The blade is made of jade green rhyolite and the European Souletrean Leaf style.  The blade measures 9.25" long x 3" wide x -.25 at its midriff tapering towards the bypoints.  It has a 67" long hickory shaft, 1" diameter tapering towards the end, asphaltum, sinew and hide glue binding with deer rawhide over that at the blade/shaft junction.  Overall length is 76.25 " long.  Wish me luck   >:D >:D >:D  james
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Post by: jamie on December 22, 2010, 09:56:15 pm
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: james parker on December 22, 2010, 10:00:12 pm
more pics
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Post by: mullet on December 22, 2010, 10:33:28 pm
 That'll do the job. I had a chance to stick one two years ago there and left the spear in the golf cart :(. I'm working on two atlatl darts for Tim right now. It's going to be cold, piggies ought to be on the move, they are down here.
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Post by: sailordad on December 22, 2010, 10:34:02 pm
DUDE THATS AWESOME  :o :o

nicely done
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Post by: stickbender on December 22, 2010, 10:39:21 pm

     Dang dude, that is awesome! :o :o  In fact I see the Lithic Gods, are looking at it also, just look at the first picture Just above the blade, you can see the eye in the snow......well at least I can.  Sometimes I see things .....well, never mind..... ::)  That is an awesome blade, and it sure ought to do some damage to a pig ! ;) :o

                                                                                  Wayne
Title: That's one super nice rhyolite blade!!!
Post by: Ncsnipe on December 22, 2010, 10:48:52 pm
Very nice, hope you get your pig.
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Post by: jonathan creason on December 22, 2010, 10:50:09 pm
Whoa!  That oughta open up a helluva hole.
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Post by: arappaho on December 22, 2010, 11:14:00 pm
Man, Wow! Thanks for all the pics. That shaft and binding job is as AWESOME as the point!
Best of Luck bringing home the bacon!
Joe
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Post by: nugget on December 22, 2010, 11:47:14 pm
Nice. Wish you luck with the piggies
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Post by: piper on December 22, 2010, 11:59:36 pm
It looks good Parker...and Good luck on the hunt......Curt
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Post by: leapingbare on December 23, 2010, 12:06:11 am
deadly!
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Post by: cowboy on December 23, 2010, 12:29:51 am
Dern James! That arta stick a pig I reckon if you get the chance to stick that pig ;D. That's a dandy blade and some dandy rhyolite - I still have most of that chunk you gave me and it works great - waay better than this perd stuff :). Good luck man....
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Post by: Pat B on December 23, 2010, 01:19:46 am
Now go make some bacon!   Eddie, is it against the rules to bring more than 2 Parkers at once down there to Lexicarrie?(sp)
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Post by: AncientArcher76 on December 23, 2010, 06:43:05 am
I am scared for the hogs that thing looks lethal!!!  I might have to make it down there some day..I would love to get a hog with any primitive weapon.

Russ
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Post by: Pappy on December 23, 2010, 09:40:55 am
Very nice,good luck on the hunt. :)
   Pappy
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Post by: Bone pile on December 23, 2010, 09:16:26 pm
Cool another pig gig
Bone pile
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Post by: mullet on December 23, 2010, 09:25:20 pm
 Pat, nawwww, Tim got a taste of it when Steve and I were there together. This will be a whole, new experience for him with "Ernest T" coming down. ;D
Title: Re: Souletrean Spear
Post by: james parker on December 23, 2010, 09:41:25 pm
thanks everyone,,i now think im gonna use it as a mullet spear,,if i can hit one of them little scawny thangs ;D ;D
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Post by: jamie on December 24, 2010, 06:58:11 am
james ive been reading like crazy trying to put myself back in time for a fluting project we're working on. and yes i read and think too much. was looking at this point again. its classic souletrean. got t me to wondering how archeologists can say a clovis point came from this style of knapping. some clovis use overshot flaking but most have a ridge that is non-existent in the souletrean. sorry for the rambling but once my brain gets locked on a project , it stays there and the brain wont shut off. need coffee
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Post by: stickbender on December 24, 2010, 04:11:50 pm

     Jamie,.......here smoke this...... ::) ;D ;D

                                      Wayne
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Post by: Jaeger on December 24, 2010, 05:21:42 pm
Would be worth a mint to see a video of that and the hunter in buckskin and a buffalo robe coat .would be a soory individual  who  wouldnt want a copy of a hunt like that better yet kill a buffalo with it from horseback!
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Post by: Mechslasher on December 25, 2010, 04:48:52 pm
sweet!  this is going to be one hell of a hunt.  looking forward to doing some hog hunting with james.  of the parkers that i hunted with down there, one hits hogs in the a$$ or the head, the other, well he managed to hit some dirt.   ::)
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Post by: Hillbilly on December 25, 2010, 10:16:13 pm
That looks awesome cuz, hope you get to put it to a pig. Wish I could make this one, but there's probably for sure some law against having three Parkers hunting in the same place at the same time. ;D Kill one for me, sure wish I could go this time, I'm about out of dirt chops.  ;D
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Post by: mullet on December 25, 2010, 11:10:10 pm
 Steve?, I think we just got Dissed? ??? ::) :-\
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Post by: Hillbilly on December 25, 2010, 11:24:02 pm
Oh, I'm used to constant abuse and mental trauma from that boy. Always hatin' on somebody. ;D
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Post by: mullet on December 25, 2010, 11:44:41 pm
 I'll see if I can get you some more dirt chops, I might have to shoot them in the booty, though. :D
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Post by: Mechslasher on December 25, 2010, 11:55:52 pm
it takes some skill to hit a hog in the head.  especially, when you are chasing one in shorts and flip-flops, while holding a cell phone in one hand and a .44 mag in the other. ::) :o
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Post by: stickbender on December 26, 2010, 03:18:18 am

     Nah, truth be know, that hog laughed itself to deat! ;D ;D

                                                 Wayne
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Post by: Mechslasher on December 26, 2010, 10:41:36 am
forgot to mention the Hawaiian flowery shirt that was flapping in the breeze while he was running.
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Post by: brian melton on December 27, 2010, 02:12:46 pm
Very nice, hope you get to stick something with that!! I have a similar spear set aside for my daughters boyfriend.....just in case ;D
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Post by: Keenan on December 27, 2010, 04:39:21 pm
Wow, that is an awesome spear, nice job. Good luck on the hunt.

Chris,  still trying to clear the coffe out of the nose from that mental picture. :D :D
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Post by: beetlebailey1977 on December 27, 2010, 09:15:07 pm
I think that spear will do the job.  Looks like a KILLA.
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Post by: james parker on January 02, 2011, 08:29:45 pm
well,guys i never did get the right opportunity to stick a hog with the spear,,but i did have one heckava time,,i gave the spear to the guy that owned the plantation,because he was so good to us and he was such a great person,,  he really liked it a lot..............maybe next time................. :D,,,,james
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Post by: Woodland Roamer on January 03, 2011, 01:20:47 pm
That is great James!! hate you didn't get to stab one with that, it would make one more nasty slice in whatever it hits!!!! Love that blade.

Alan
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Post by: swamp yeti on January 04, 2011, 09:29:55 pm
        That is one nice spear James,nice hog hunting.
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Post by: Little John on January 04, 2011, 10:16:56 pm
Beautiful work James, you will get that pig next time.     Kenneth
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Post by: rwaterman00 on January 05, 2011, 01:08:32 pm
that is awsome and rhyolite yet  :o
amazing work
 
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Post by: Jaeger on January 05, 2011, 03:51:20 pm
no fun if ya get one every time out ,might as well be  shooting  pop cans , new territory and the challenge is what she is all about.wait ,I am talking to a dude going after a pig with a spear ,obviously he knows already .lol