Am scheduled to do a knapping sesson with 24 teenagers for part of a hunting based program the Game & Fish is putting on at the Painted Rocks State Park on the 21st. Will have three classes with eight or nine boys for an hour each. That is such a short amount of time so am planning on using obsidian slabs just to let them try to make a flake! The G & F will provide eye protection, gloves, etc. and I will supply the rest. My old knapping buddy, Ed Neel, of Yakama, Wa. is going to try to help me with the obsidian as I don't have enough for that many kids. Am going to give each of them a kit to take home with an Ishi stick, flaker, hand pad, and hopefully some stone. The local area head game warden is a knapper and he will help me! Am told there is no cell phone foot print at the site so maybe they will learn something else to do with their thumbs. Nothing is ever easy so am having company from Oklahoma at the same time. Folks from my dad's side I have never met! Have been told that my G & F friend is changing the wording on legal points to hunt big game with to include stone materials. Guess I will be legal again. Wish me luck! Have done this kind a thing many times before, just with not so many kids. Recon some of them will bleed? Any sugestions? A/Ho Joe
