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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: soy on April 13, 2015, 07:18:39 pm

Title: blood stone?
Post by: soy on April 13, 2015, 07:18:39 pm: anybody worked with it before?if so how does it act... ???

(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j380/thadsoy/0413151737a.jpg) (http://s1082.photobucket.com/user/thadsoy/media/0413151737a.jpg.html)
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Post by: Tower on April 13, 2015, 07:21:38 pm: Amazing material when heated !! I have worked it many times.
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Post by: Tracker0721 on April 13, 2015, 08:22:48 pm: I'll trade you a rock for it and tell you how it works! In a few months when I know I won't just make gravel. ;)
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Post by: soy on April 13, 2015, 09:06:41 pm: Thanks tower....400°do it ???
Tracker...ive been trying for a couple years,and still make mostly gravel lol :-[
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Post by: cowboy on April 13, 2015, 09:58:20 pm: That's some purty rock!
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Post by: Stringman on April 13, 2015, 10:29:00 pm: I've got some of that sittin in a back corner somewhere. I tired to work it raw and couldn't get anywhere with it. Maybe I'll try beating it now. ::)
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Post by: bubby on April 13, 2015, 10:52:02 pm: Here in the land of knapping mortals it's some hard stuff and i cook it like agate, get the roaster up to the high setting and let it soak for a full day in the heat then ramp it back down, it makes pretty points though
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Post by: soy on April 13, 2015, 11:43:41 pm: Thanks for the info :)
And calm down scott ;D
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Post by: TRACY on April 14, 2015, 06:54:55 am: Name alone has got me fearing it :D thought it was obsidian at first.

Tracy
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Post by: Stringman on April 14, 2015, 08:28:32 am: Quote from: soy on April 13, 2015, 11:43:41 pm
Thanks for the info :)
And calm down scott ;D

Haha! "Heating" I MEANT HEATING!! >:( ;D
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Post by: soy on April 14, 2015, 03:27:13 pm: Ok :-X
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Post by: soy on June 29, 2015, 01:49:21 am: Well I did not heat it and this is what I got...
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(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j380/thadsoy/0629150006a.jpg) (http://s1082.photobucket.com/user/thadsoy/media/0629150006a.jpg.html)

(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j380/thadsoy/0629150006.jpg) (http://s1082.photobucket.com/user/thadsoy/media/0629150006.jpg.html)
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Post by: Zuma on June 29, 2015, 03:07:39 am: Nice work with some pretty tough material.
I have only had a small amount of It and
I heated it.
Zuma
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Post by: Stringman on June 29, 2015, 09:35:16 am: Nice work Thad! That turned out great!
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Post by: TRACY on June 29, 2015, 09:45:17 am: Very nice soy!

Tracy
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Post by: bubby on June 29, 2015, 10:54:23 am: Nice point soy I always cook mine
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Post by: vinemaplebows on June 29, 2015, 11:40:46 am: Doesn't look like any bloodstone I ever worked.....nice job! :)
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Post by: Chippintuff on June 30, 2015, 11:36:21 am: I agree. It is nice.

WA
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Post by: Zuma on June 30, 2015, 12:52:00 pm: Quote from: vinemaplebows on June 29, 2015, 11:40:46 am
Doesn't look like any bloodstone I ever worked.....nice job! :)

Yeah I was going to say the same thing but I
haven't knapped much of it.
Mostly red/blues???
Zuma
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Post by: soy on June 30, 2015, 01:24:50 pm: The guy I got it from calls it blood stone...says be got it from India...what would y'all say it might be?
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Post by: Zuma on June 30, 2015, 02:25:13 pm: Can't say it is or not lol.

www.gemselect.com › GemSelect › Gem Info (http://www.gemselect.com › GemSelect › Gem Info)

Identifying Bloodstone Back to TopBloodstone is easily identified by its characteristic 'classic' appearance. The base color of bloodstone ranges from green to bluish green, and sometimes even bluish gray. The most distinguishing aspect is the presence of red, brownish or yellow 'blood-like' spotted inclusions.

Bloodstone is a variety of quartz and has excellent hardness. There are not many other materials capable of scratching bloodstone, therefore, a simplescratch test can often distinguish bloodstone from imitations. Bloodstone is composed of silicon dioxide and it has a trigonal crystal structure made up of microcrystalline aggregates. It can sometimes be confused with jasper, but because jasper has a much more grainy composition, they can
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Post by: flungonin on July 01, 2015, 11:16:07 pm: Awesome looking point. Terminal point. This is more colorful than the bloodstone I have which is evergreen in color.