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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: bubby on February 14, 2011, 05:03:23 pm

Title: first points not obsidion or glass
Post by: bubby on February 14, 2011, 05:03:23 pm

these points came out of a piece of rhiolite, put it in my gas grill to cook it, Bub(http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt320/bubncheryl/Picture001.jpg)
(http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt320/bubncheryl/Picture003.jpg)

Title: Re: first points not obsidion or glass
Post by: Bevan R. on February 14, 2011, 05:05:54 pm

Nice!! Thanks for posting. Really like the red(ish) one on the right. 8)

Bevan

Title: Re: first points not obsidion or glass
Post by: thomas h on February 14, 2011, 05:51:07 pm

bubby you  really  have some  great skills

Title: Re: first points not obsidion or glass
Post by: JackCrafty on February 14, 2011, 09:19:40 pm

Very nice colors and a couple very fine points!  That rhyolite is tuff stuff.

Title: Re: first points not obsidion or glass
Post by: cowboy on February 14, 2011, 09:48:20 pm

Man, that rhyolite seems to come in all kinds of colors - I thought it was all green ;D. Good lookin points there!

Title: Re: first points not obsidion or glass
Post by: bubby on February 14, 2011, 10:22:41 pm

they told me it was rhyolite at the gem store, the white one seemed to flake pretty good but the other one was hard, same piece of rock, just wierd to me

Title: Re: first points not obsidion or glass
Post by: sailordad on February 14, 2011, 10:23:37 pm

nice looking points
didnt know your could cook rhyolite

waht color was it before you grilled it?

Title: Re: first points not obsidion or glass
Post by: bubby on February 15, 2011, 08:15:14 am

sailordad, I havn't been knappin long enough to know what ya can or can't do, I just tryed to flake it and it was hard to flake so I put the slabs in the grill on high for a couple of hours and pulled them out in the morning, color got a little darker with the red, white got creamy coloredand glossy when flaked, Bub

Title: Re: first points not obsidion or glass
Post by: jamie on February 15, 2011, 08:48:51 am

very nice work bubby.

Title: Re: first points not obsidion or glass
Post by: arappaho on February 16, 2011, 02:33:35 am

Pretty points, bubby. They look like they'd work great and
really nice for your first points!

Just want add 2 cents to help clarify,
There are hundreds of different types and ages of rhyolite around the world.
They don't all look or knap the same. Bubby's pieces pictured here are
most likely from the southwestern states, New Mexico, Arizona, etc.
The rhyolite in NC, for example, is completely different.

Joe

Title: Re: first points not obsidion or glass
Post by: TRACY on February 16, 2011, 10:08:20 pm

Looks like you know what your doing to me. Nice points.

The red looks like that mexican rhyolite that mullet brought to the classic two years ago.

Tracy