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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: soy on August 23, 2012, 04:14:44 pm

Title: what have i got here?
Post by: soy on August 23, 2012, 04:14:44 pm

What might it be and will it knap?i know the only way for me to know is to try but the big veins make it difficult to get a good piece and it looks like a bunch of balls melted together ...the outside looked awsome while it is cool looking am i wasting a purdy rock on hopes of knapping it???will it hold
 (http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j380/thadsoy/photobucket-1518-1345746493107.jpg)

Title: Re: what have i got here?
Post by: Stoker on August 23, 2012, 07:01:26 pm

I'm going to venture a guess. It looks like a quartzite. When I blew up the pic it appears that there is the formation of crystyls in the center like a goede. My limited experence tells me it's like concrete. But you have one nice rock formation it's a keeper. What area did you get it from?
Thanks Leroy

Title: Re: what have i got here?
Post by: TRACY on August 23, 2012, 10:53:19 pm

Looks like it will wear down those new boppers prematurely. I'd use hammerstones if you have some.

Tracy

Title: Re: what have i got here?
Post by: maddog314 on August 25, 2012, 08:46:30 pm

I have had some stuff that looks alot like that and the higher grade stuff knapps very well... the old timmers around here call it sugar stone... I have seen alotg of artifacts made from it and seems to have been one of the more desirable stone arond here...(I live south of lake of the ozark here in Missouri)
Micah-

Title: Re: what have i got here?
Post by: jamie on August 26, 2012, 11:17:56 am

Looks like something id knap

Title: Re: what have i got here?
Post by: madcrow on August 26, 2012, 12:05:12 pm

Yep, I would drag out the ogwood baseball bat for that stuff. Looks like it would be fun to smack on.  Just make sure nobody is straight across from you.  Those crystals hurt on impact.

Title: Re: what have i got here?
Post by: soy on August 26, 2012, 05:18:28 pm

Stoker i got it from someone deep on the heart of texas
Madcrow you are not lying i smacked it a good one a few chunks flew and one in the leg stuck and drew blood,its on now! Ps knapping with shorts may not be the best of ideas ;)

Title: Re: what have i got here?
Post by: madcrow on August 26, 2012, 06:47:37 pm

I usually knap in shorts and barefooted.  I guess if there no pain or blood, I'm not knapping.

Title: Re: what have i got here?
Post by: jamie on August 28, 2012, 07:23:28 am

if thats from texas it may be alibates.