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Title: Blacktails Points
Post by: Blacktail on January 15, 2009, 03:34:46 pm

The first point is a little piece of Brazilian Agate that I believe is an inch and a half long. The next one is an obsidian spear point style. The last one is one that I copied from Billy, its a Sedalia point. Hope you like, John

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Title: Re: Blacktails Points
Post by: Hillbilly on January 15, 2009, 03:52:21 pm

Nice points, John.

Title: Re: Blacktails Points
Post by: billy on January 15, 2009, 05:56:39 pm

Hey John,

wow dude, those are some stunning points!  I really like the obsidian ones and that brazillian agate point is one of the most interesting colored points I have seen in a long time!  Beautiful work! 

Title: Re: Blacktails Points
Post by: mullet on January 15, 2009, 06:01:00 pm

  Very nice, John. That Brazilean Agate is pretty and nice to work.

Title: Re: Blacktails Points
Post by: DanaM on January 15, 2009, 06:39:16 pm

Nice points :) Does the brazialin agate need heat treating? I bought a little slab of it last year at a fair and it didn't
chip for beans :(

Title: Re: Blacktails Points
Post by: Wolf Watcher on January 15, 2009, 08:18:12 pm

Dana:  The Brizilian agate will cook in a turkey roster @ 450 degrees.  A lot of it has been dyed for sale in rock shops, but I like the natural colors.  Once heat treated it chips like a good obsidian. If you have an undyed nodual or rock it cooks at a lower temperature than slabs but for a little longer time.  Watcher

Title: Re: Blacktails Points
Post by: bogman on January 15, 2009, 09:07:21 pm

I like Brazilian Agate! I too bought a couple of small slabs at a lapidary show. I guess they were for cabochons.
They knapped real well! I wouldn't think they were heat treated?

Title: Re: Blacktails Points
Post by: Blacktail on January 15, 2009, 09:43:13 pm

thanks so much guys...i feel i have been chipping my heart out latey....and am thinking about getting back at trying bow making again or going out and getting some juniper...the agate was a little bugger to chip because i have not chipped some thing so small...thanks so much for the kind words it makes me feel good to know i am doing some thing right.john