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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: bubby on July 31, 2013, 06:05:46 am

Title: a first for me
Post by: bubby on July 31, 2013, 06:05:46 am

this is my first all abo point, just hammer stones and a antler tine, I need to dig around for a smaller tine for the notches and i'll get them a bit deeper, feels weird making an abo point with man made material but what the hay :laugh:, bub(http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt320/bubncheryl/knapping/101_4312_zps77ade750.jpg) (http://s623.photobucket.com/user/bubncheryl/media/knapping/101_4312_zps77ade750.jpg.html)(http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt320/bubncheryl/knapping/101_4313_zpsd44376db.jpg) (http://s623.photobucket.com/user/bubncheryl/media/knapping/101_4313_zpsd44376db.jpg.html)

Title: Re: a first for me
Post by: iowabow on July 31, 2013, 07:32:59 am

Nicely done!

Title: Re: a first for me
Post by: TRACY on July 31, 2013, 09:11:33 am

Real nice point Bubby!

Tracy

Title: Re: a first for me
Post by: bowtarist on July 31, 2013, 09:26:46 am

Cool Bubby! dp

Title: Re: a first for me
Post by: Josh B on July 31, 2013, 10:38:49 am

Cool!  Man made?   Oh no sir,  think of it as super heat treated stone! ;)  Lol!  Josh

Title: Re: a first for me
Post by: YosemiteBen on July 31, 2013, 12:41:53 pm

looks good to me!

Title: Re: a first for me
Post by: bubby on July 31, 2013, 03:29:34 pm

thank's guy's, it has some flaws but i'm kinda proud of this one, i'm hopeing to improve my percussion so I can dig into the rock I got from WillH and Cowboy, figure i'll work my way up from bottle bottoms and t.v. glass to the Georgetown and horse creek and the rest of the good rock instead of making it ALL gravel

Title: Re: a first for me
Post by: Trapper Rob on August 01, 2013, 01:58:12 pm

Nice one Bubby.

Title: Re: a first for me
Post by: stickbender on August 01, 2013, 02:10:12 pm

     Great point!  8) Especially all abo.  But don't consider it "Man made" material.  Glass is melted silica.  Like obsidian, minus the other minerals.  Silica is basically sand.  Sand is small rocks.   ;)  Rocks are melted silica and other minerals, soooo........ " Whatcha got there is a gen u wine piece of prehistoric material, which you have lovingly, skillfully, and in traditional fashion, fashioned a gen u wine replicated arrow head, our ancestors would have used in a heart beat, and been proud to show it! ;)

                                                                          Wayne

Title: Re: a first for me
Post by: Bugtussle on August 01, 2013, 02:46:55 pm

I think you are in good company (see link below)...  BTW that is a beautiful point regardless of how you made it! :)

http://monache.blogspot.com/2008/03/native-americans-and-australian.html (http://monache.blogspot.com/2008/03/native-americans-and-australian.html)

Title: Re: a first for me
Post by: cowboy on August 06, 2013, 07:00:40 am

Good one there Bub! Wish you could spend a few days at the house or vise versa. We'd wreck all kinds of rocks learning percussion.

Title: Re: a first for me
Post by: bubby on August 06, 2013, 08:00:18 pm

that would be a blast Paul, but were more than a days ride, be one longggg weekend :laugh: