One sided gravel

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ere's two pieces of gravel I worked on.
They both had issues that required to be worked to one side and where pretty tough material but I enjoyed every flake.
Over the summer I had a broke collar bone and hurt wrists and couldn't knap for a while and I'm just now getting my percussion swing back to where I'm comfortable and semi confident doing it.

I also got to hit the gravel pile at the landscape supply and brought home a few more pieces.

Happy New Year!

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here you can see that I put a strong bevel down each side and will swap from direct to indirect to get the cortex off the second side

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then finished it with pressure

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here's #2

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see that one side looks pretty good

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I used indirect on the last side again then pressure flaked and notched it

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I'm gonna post this little one in here too while I'm posting.

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even this baby gravel had two major cracks that cause me to loose size on it

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oops! forgot the pics

[bjrogg]

Very impressive 1442. That looks like some very challenging stuff you wrangled those points out of.
Bjrogg

[JEB]

Friends don't let friends knap landscape rock, lol. BJ that rock is in front of every restaurant in San Antonio. I would pick one up and Chris would make me put it back. Kudos to 1442 for making nice points and blades out of that stuff.

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Thanks
The texture looks horrible in pictures but these pieces flake pretty good once you get below the cracks.
I'm fixin to go out and knap a little bit and I will do something other than gravel for a change, maybe.

[Tower]

You’ve still got it.   I have one of your trade points.  I turned  it sideways once & it disappeared .
 Love seeing what you can do too that bull gravel.

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Thanks a lot y'all. This is having fun to me, and stopping to take pictures really helps me to knap better than if I just sit down and knap too fast.

Tower,
I think you are referring to a brownish colored triangle shaped blade that I just kept working on with indirect percussion on a 3/8" copper rod until there just wasn't much left of it. I expected it to break with every hit towards the end but it never did.
I even videoed the making of that blade from start to finish and was gonna put it on you tube but have held off until I learn to edit out a lot of boring time spent beveling the edges and stuff. The video is like at least an hour and a half and I did a lot of talking about what I was doing too that sounds not to good.