Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: cowboy on November 10, 2008, 05:25:30 pm
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Was working on a blade from a big chunk of Edwards Plateau chert. The thing kept steppin and stackin on me so I wound up with this big toothpic ;D. Looking through my Overstreet arrow head book, it most closely resembles a Haskett which is late Paleo and found mostly in the NW. Oh, it's almost nine inches long - longest anything I've ever knapped and kept in one peice :).
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Thats realy cool
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thats cool man. someone told me once "if you can knapp a 8'' blade you can knapp a 14'' blade." so go bigger and suport it the same. Hard part is getting a larg enuff pice of rock.
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wow :o
Now all you need is a few more and you can make a wind chime. ;D >:D
(kidding, of course...awesome job)
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Very nice Paul. I was elk hunting several years back just outsdide of Bend and was waiting for a friend and his father to catch up to me. I took a few practice shots and poked around in the same spot for about ten minutes. When they got to me I turned and started down the skid trail and my friends father said " well I'll be" as he reached down and picked up a thirteen inch hasket from where I had just been standing. unbroken excellent shape Type 2 grade 10 hasket My jaw dropped open. Tears welled up in his eyes as the 70+ yr old man said "I've looked all my life and never found an arrowhead". I informed him that it wasn't an arrowhead and that it was in the neighborhood of 12-15,000 years old and extreamly rare to find one of that quallity and size.
Same shape as the one in the upper left conner.
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:o Great Job on the toothpick! Have always said its amazing what you can find hidding in a rock!! Have always marveled at the way some of the old time people could make identical points. Except for Ishi hunting points from good materials, I have always just taken what the stone gave me!! Wonder what they used a toothpick for?
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Only thing I can think of to use that for is stabing something!
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Thanks all! I don't know what it would have been used for Joe, a blade of course but looks like it'd only be good for stabbing - maybe ritual/ceremonial?
That's interesting Keenan! Wish I could find one like that. My book tells me a type II, G10, nine inche's long goes for $6,000+ :o.
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We figured the same D, were typing same time. Also says the stem was ground for wrapping or hafting a grip/handle.
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Overstreets' book's are out of date on price's. It would probally be worth twice that at a show.
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sorry to hear about the stacking...but,thats the way the chipping goes some time...but paul its good to see it didnt fold on you and you still got some thing from it..great job..john
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Nice! I wonder what it would do hafted to a atle dart.. :o
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That is really cool! Got me, I didn't realize that it was not part of the book illustrations until the 2nd photo.
Tracy
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Beautiful point,Man I don't know how yall do it.Great job. :)
Pappy
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Good job on that Texas toothpick,slim and trim
Bone pile
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Thanks guys. Think I'm going to try another (proper width) soon's I get off work. Going to work some huntin in there as well. Just watched my little chiweiner chase a decent eight point out of the back yard >:(.
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You the man Paul. :o Where did you get the book? I probably need one of those so can actually start making real points styles and not just what I think they should look like.
Pretty sad, but yesterday I was working on a point at lunch and broke it in two. And it was only 2 inches. Sorry Okie1, that was going to be yours. I still owe you some brother. Good thing Archery season goes to the end of January.
As far as the point swap goes, (keep your fingers crossed), all I have to do on mine is notch it and send it. If it works, it will be my thinnest, and longest point yet at 2 3/4" long and 1/4" thick at its center.
Mike
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Oh, Sorry Paul. I thought this was in the Point Swap post. Didn't mean to high-jack.
Mike
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Harpoon! I bet they stuck wales and and other big fish with 'em. Needing them thin and long for greater penetration.
~~Papa Matt
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I'd hate to have that chucked at me on the end of a spear! Very nice! ;)
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Thats a really cool point but like some of the others I gotta wonder about the practical application.Ron
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Mike, You can oder the book on amazon.com . I have the Overstreet indian arrowheads Ninth edition. It's a great reference book but like Eddie said the prices are out dated.
Cowboy: I know what your saying; I knew what I was seeing and it was still hard to comprehend.
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Thanks fellers :). Not a problem Mike - I'm kinda waiting on a response in the point swap section ::)..