PITH 2025

[mullet]

Sounds like a Plan, Don.

[Tower]

I apologize  im running a lil late.   I will draw names & list them this evening.

[Tower]

Here are the folks signed up for the 2025 PITH if I made a mistake please let me know.
Please send a point of your making to the name below yours. The last name on the list sends a point to the name at the top of the list . Let’s set a ship by date of April 1st.
Parnell
JackCrafty
Tower
PaulC
RickB
Tower
Russ
YosemiteBen
Bonepile
Bjrogg
Mullet

 This is one of my favorite traditions on this site.
Happy Knapping

[Bone pile]

Hopefully going to the Silver River Knapp inn tomorrow and pick up some coral and other materials. Hope to have something knapped out soon

[MushinMan97]

As a novice knapper, pray tell, what is this "PITH" yinz are all referring to? I'm quite curious

[bjrogg]

As a novice knapper, pray tell, what is this "PITH" yinz are all referring to? I'm quite curious

I forget exactly what it stands for but it’s a trade. We say how many points we would like to put in the trade and then we get that many points back from a random draw


I put one point in so my name is on the list once

I send a point to the name under my name and receive a point from the name above mine

So I will send one to Mullet

And receive one from bone pile

Bjrogg

[RickB]

PITH - Point in the hat

[MushinMan97]

Thanks for the explanation! That's really cool. Maybe next year I'll be good enough to put my name in the hat for the PITH.A new goal to push me. Looks like I'll need to have another visit to Nethers

[mullet]

You don't have to be an expert to do it, I'm not for sure. We all started somewhere.

[Tower]

Mullet is correct.
It doesn’t matter your skill level .
No one judges here.  It’s just a good fun trade. 
I have points knapped by the same person 10 years apart.  You can really see how much a knapper has progressed.

[mjohnson9282]

what is a PITH?  Where would this take place?  I am new and just getting started. 
Thanks,
Mike Johnson
Hopewell, VA
primitivemindcreations@gmail.com

[JW_Halverson]

what is a PITH?  Where would this take place?  I am new and just getting started. 
Thanks,
Mike Johnson
Hopewell, VA
primitivemindcreations@gmail.com

PITH = Point In The Hat

It's a sort of round-robin trade. Everyone sends their point off to the next guy on the list and gets one from the person on the other side of the list. We do bow trades like this, too. For some it's a challenge to level up in the game and try to turn out something next level. For others, it's a cheap lottery ticket to buy a chance to get a point from a knapper they have long admired. The true point (and yes, I chose that word with great deliberation as all puns should be well intended) is feeling of joining into your community and sharing with friends.

How's that for a pithy remark?

[mullet]

Steve, I dropped you a point in the mail this morning.

[Parnell]

Got the point today and it’s beautiful all the way around!  Like that color in the obsidian!  It seems I’m due to get a new point case going.

Many thanks, Eddie.

[Bone pile]

Bjrogg, sending one up to you today
 Bone pile