Hehe, when I first saw Waterford on your profile, I thought that maybe that I got lucky and there was someone living close by that I could bug for hands on advice, but I knew it was to good to be true! Your Waterford is quite a distance from mine. According to map quest, you are about four hours away from me. East Waterford happens to be in Juniata County. It's almost exactly one hour west of Harrisburg. When I was younger, I hated living out here but now I wouldn't trade it for anything. It is just so isolated. I wish we had more natural deposits of chert around here though. I have been looking and looking but I am having horrible luck finding any. The thing that is the most frustrating is that I know there are plenty of limestone quarries around here, and people have told me that if we have limestone we should have chert. I just have not been able to locate it and at present money is tight, so I have to settle with what I can get my hands on so I am going to practice on thunderchert and some glass. I have two complete toilets that I got from the dump and a television screen from my 32 inch television that just went out not long ago. I figure I should be good with that for now. If I run out, I have an aunt who works at an auction barn and I think she can get me a lot of glass and maybe porcelain for free. She said that a good bit of the time, the stuff that doesn't sell goes in a dumpster. She told me that if I were to come over, they would probably give me all the glass dishes and stuff. Maybe I can get my hands on some nice thick stuff.
