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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: CPS on June 30, 2009, 03:47:09 am

Title: Novaculite
Post by: CPS on June 30, 2009, 03:47:09 am: Hey guys,
I was wondering what yalls opinion was on novaculite. Good, bad, indifferent?
Title: Re: Novaculite
Post by: PeteDavis on June 30, 2009, 07:36:59 am: It's great material and very available.

Neolithics has plenty.

The white (porcelain) is finest in grain, and the colored is the grainiest. Novaculite is a fine-grained quartzite more or less. Knappers cook it to make it more glassy and uniform.

The black stuff is hardest to find and the waste with that formation is the greatest.

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Title: Re: Novaculite
Post by: Timo on June 30, 2009, 08:28:26 am: Great material,really good for beginning knappers. Make sure it is heat treated before you whack it though. ;)
Title: Re: Novaculite
Post by: cowboy on June 30, 2009, 09:02:34 am: Dang Pete! ;D. I love novac cooked, easy to work.
Title: Re: Novaculite
Post by: xin on June 30, 2009, 10:01:02 am: Novaculite comes in an incredible variety of colors and is probably the easiest stone to knap once it has been heat treated. Great for either beginners or pros. I get most of my novaculite from Dan's Whetstone.
Title: Re: Novaculite
Post by: Hillbilly on June 30, 2009, 10:51:12 am: Heated novaculite knaps like butter, raw novaculite knaps like granite. It's good stuff, and comes in some cool colors.
Title: Re: Novaculite
Post by: sailordad on June 30, 2009, 06:13:36 pm: i have only had one little piece of that to work

and loved it,wish i had more
Title: Re: Novaculite
Post by: Outbackbob48 on July 01, 2009, 07:34:36 pm: Like Hillbilly said, If it's heated works great if not it's nasty for sure, Makes a purty point. Later Bob