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Offline jamie

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rain day
« on: June 23, 2011, 08:36:59 am »
knocked out a couple yesterday. received some cool rock at the primitive gathering. picked up some rhyolite ( the nasty and the green) , a big chunk of coral , some spalls of israeli rock (buddy of mine is from there and brought it back with him), one highly fractured piece of horse creek , and some pennsylvania jasper. the penn jasper and horse creek are below i finished them yesterday. the penn piece is some nasty stuff that the fella who gave it to me gave up on and wanted to see what i could do with it. it was loaded with stacks and i used the horizontal punch to blow through them. as you can see it is loaded with quartz . he said it was heated and i told him who ever gave it to him was lying through their teeth. definitely a challenging piece. the horse creekreminds me very much of mid grade normanskill. kinda like knapping a crayola crayon. =) first pic shows the quartz in the penn jasper. the horse creek didnt have much color in so i saved what i could. where there was color it was highly fractured. feels good to knap some pieces. peace





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Re: rain day
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2011, 09:30:52 am »
Nice Jamie. That Penn jasper looks like some tough stuff.
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Re: rain day
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2011, 10:03:58 am »
Them look good Jamie! Good to see ya around again..
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Offline Tower

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Re: rain day
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2011, 10:07:49 am »
Nice work. That jasper point looks like it could punch through steel.The flaking on the horse creek really looks nice.
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Re: rain day
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2011, 10:47:20 am »
Nice chippin....that Jasper point looks tough as nails, and authentic too

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Re: rain day
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2011, 11:09:47 am »
LIKE THEM ALOT
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Re: rain day
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2011, 02:03:23 pm »
I like how you left the yellow on the tip of the point on the one on the left
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Offline jamie

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Re: rain day
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2011, 04:42:01 pm »
thanks, that penn stone was definitely a tough booger. but fortunately not as tough as the piece of rhyolite i banged out today . post pics later
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Offline AncientArcher76

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Re: rain day
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2011, 03:42:43 pm »
Nice...some great color too!

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