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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Sasquatch on January 25, 2013, 03:48:46 pm

Title: Rock I.D.
Post by: Sasquatch on January 25, 2013, 03:48:46 pm
So i am having trouble finding a rock ID database any suggestions?  I have alot of this stuff on my Texas Hill Country place. I cut it with a tile saw.   Any know what it is?
Title: Re: Rock I.D.
Post by: Tower on January 25, 2013, 07:28:26 pm
I have found that same stone here. It makes some beautiful points when heated.I'm not sure what it is. The outside resembles coral on the ones I've found. Tower
Title: Re: Rock I.D.
Post by: madcrow on January 25, 2013, 07:41:25 pm
Box it up and send it to me for further analysis.  I have no idea but it looks great.  Hit it!
Title: Re: Rock I.D.
Post by: Sasquatch on January 25, 2013, 11:50:12 pm
Tower, thanks for the reply. We do have a lot of petrified coral on the came property.  How long and how hot? 

Madcrow did you see the back?  That's what happens when i hit rock. If only we could use drawknives to make arrowheads. ;D I'm still new and i think this stuff is challenging for a knew knapper.  Oh well ill just throw this stuff in the trash.         J/K but i will put it away until i get better.  Thanks for all the help.
 Any ideas on a rock identification database?
Title: Re: Rock I.D.
Post by: Tower on January 25, 2013, 11:57:11 pm
I take it to 450 for 8 hrs. Beautiful points.
Title: Re: Rock I.D.
Post by: madcrow on January 26, 2013, 01:22:44 am
I think one of my dogwood billets would do wonders for the back of that rock.
Title: Re: Rock I.D.
Post by: seider on January 26, 2013, 01:34:15 pm
I find some stuff up here in central texas that looks close to that also.  I am still new to this have been doing it about 2 years max.  My rocks still look like that when i hit them..  I have gone through a bunch of rock to get what i am able to get now which are not the best one day I will get a bow that does not have training wheels on it and try some out...  Mine may fly in a circle though...
Title: Re: Rock I.D.
Post by: AncientArcher76 on January 27, 2013, 02:58:17 am
Looks like an agate.  But not a geologist..lol does it have polyps?  Whatever it is its knappable!  Good find!

Russ