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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: cowboy on March 13, 2011, 07:06:13 pm

Title: Found some tabs.
Post by: cowboy on March 13, 2011, 07:06:13 pm

Out on the plateau - some place called Balcones NW of Austin ::). Escaped from work one day out there and scored on a little splunkin trip. This stuff is pretty grainy and wants to step pretty bad if you don't rare back and hit it. Sure a little heat would do wonders for it. Anyway I had to take this peice on down to get rid of the stacks but will make a good tough blade being raw. Here's the sequence...

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Post by: cowboy on March 13, 2011, 07:08:34 pm

Mas.

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Post by: cowboy on March 13, 2011, 07:10:28 pm

Bare with me ;D.

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Post by: jamie on March 13, 2011, 07:16:15 pm

i would say so !!!!!

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Post by: Bevan R. on March 13, 2011, 07:20:26 pm

DAMN!!! :o

Bevan R

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Post by: nugget on March 13, 2011, 07:26:41 pm

Super blade. Looks sharp

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Post by: JustinNC on March 13, 2011, 08:57:21 pm

Looks good!

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Post by: Outbackbob48 on March 13, 2011, 10:11:22 pm

Paul, great lookin blade, and that looks like some tuff stuff to beat on ;D ;D Bob

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Post by: cowboy on March 13, 2011, 11:37:17 pm

Thanks guys! And yep Bob - I would compare it to.... hmmm, Pedernales maybe? Naw - this stuff is different. Perd is harder, this is graineir but not as tough in a way. I found the quarry where all the ancients works on their points and that stuff was almost solid white and a lot higher grade but was too far from the truck for me to haul it after hauling all this out and looking over my shoulder the whole time, hmm ::). Anyway, I'm content with what I got away with and will most likely never be back - here we go :).

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Post by: JackCrafty on March 13, 2011, 11:44:14 pm

Wow!  I looked at each picture carefully and as I scrolled down I kept saying to myself: "No way...No way!...NO WAY!"

VERY nice blade! :o

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Post by: JustinNC on March 14, 2011, 12:03:46 am

Must be terrible to live and work in a place where you can pick up a duke's mixture of material. I'll shed a tear for your misery ;D

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Post by: leapingbare on March 14, 2011, 12:59:33 am

score!!

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Post by: Sparrow on March 14, 2011, 01:21:34 am

Cool ! ;D  "  Frank

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Post by: cowboy on March 14, 2011, 02:38:35 am

Patrick: Ya know you crack me up sometimes ;D. I'm finding that this sort of thing is available all over the place if your out and about in the right place at the right time.. Anywho: thanks fellers - damn I wish I could make some of these knap ins around the country. by the way: I broke the next two. Breaks my heart but I'm afraid the ancients had the same problems :)..Here we go......

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Post by: Pappy on March 14, 2011, 09:53:22 am

Now that is sweet.Great job. :)
   Pappy

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Post by: Bone pile on March 14, 2011, 10:41:03 am

For awhile there I thought you were going for a long drill bit ;) Turned out to be a nice blade,looks like alittle heat would do
Bone pile

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Post by: JEB on March 14, 2011, 03:41:15 pm

Wife and I are ay 281 and 46 for a couple of weeks.  Just found out the Game and Fish a cracking down on picking up rock on the Pedernales in Fredricksburg.  Now what.

Title: Re: Found some tabs.
Post by: cowboy on March 14, 2011, 04:18:50 pm

Pick it up anyway! Act like your fishing or bird watching or something and chunk what ya want up on the bank. Load it up later when they ain't looking! Dang that irritates me to no end - it's just rocks. Next time it rains good the river will be full of it again. OK, enough of that. Thanks Pappy and Roger!

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Post by: mullet on March 15, 2011, 01:36:18 am

WOW, Paul, that is Sweet.

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Post by: Tower on March 15, 2011, 02:09:33 am

Great slide show. Love the blade.

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Post by: AncientArcher76 on March 20, 2011, 04:02:31 am

What I would do for some wide thin tabs... them I like... want to send me some??? >:D

Title: Re: Found some tabs.
Post by: cowboy on March 22, 2011, 02:33:28 am

Whadya got Russ? I ain't married to none of these rocks ;D.