With all the talk about Abo style knapping & tools lately I've felt a lil left out.
Iowa has me wanting to try my hand at stone & bone knapping lately. I started knapping years ago Abo style, but switched to copper a long while back.
Actually I spall with stone. I have doing it produces a better spall than a large copper spaller.
I picked up a few large antler pieces & tried to create some Abo tools of my own.
The pressure flaker is a copy of 2 I know were found in a rock shelter in centeral Tx.
That thing works better than I expected it to. I found my hardest hurdle to jump was holding the stone exactly how I would with a piece of belting. I took some leather scraps I had & used some hide glue to bond them together . That worked great as well.
Well here are a few pics of my tools, my piece of stone about 1/2 way through the knapping process,& the finished point. The style in TX is a Montell point.
It's 100% Abo style produced
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