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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Hardawaypoints on September 03, 2009, 06:50:10 pm

Title: 1st Newnan
Post by: Hardawaypoints on September 03, 2009, 06:50:10 pm

I got some coral from jcinpc a few years ago and hadn't done much with it.  Here is the first Newnan I've ever attempted.  It would work on the end of a stick. Since coral is from Florida, I tried a point type from Florida. It was knapped with copper and antler. It is also the first point I made since I had surgery that was not just a pressure flaked chip.  It was supposed to be a longer and wider point than it turned out, but all my points start out that way.

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/hardawaypoints/Knapped%20points/1stNewnan.jpg)

Jim

Title: Re: 1st Newnan
Post by: PW on September 03, 2009, 07:40:17 pm

Man,that's a killer.

Title: Re: 1st Newnan
Post by: DanaM on September 03, 2009, 07:55:34 pm

Awesome point Jim, love the colors and I'm glad to hear your recovering well from the surgery :)

Title: Re: 1st Newnan
Post by: mullet on September 03, 2009, 08:04:37 pm

 Very nice, Jim. And some pretty Pasco County coral.

Title: Re: 1st Newnan
Post by: piper on September 03, 2009, 10:14:19 pm

Good job there Jim...

  Curt

Title: Re: 1st Newnan
Post by: Pappy on September 04, 2009, 06:47:05 am

Very nice work.That's beauty. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: 1st Newnan
Post by: Jaeger on September 04, 2009, 07:43:03 am

very nice work!

Title: Re: 1st Newnan
Post by: GregB on September 04, 2009, 01:29:14 pm

That's downright purty! :)

Title: Re: 1st Newnan
Post by: Stoker on September 04, 2009, 04:21:34 pm

Cool point. Very nice indeed. A little therapy is always good for recovery
Thanks Leroy

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Post by: Timo on September 05, 2009, 08:22:20 am

Very nice looking rock, and also a well made point!

Title: Re: 1st Newnan
Post by: Hillbilly on September 06, 2009, 09:59:50 am

That's a nice'un, Jim-glad to see that you're back in action. Jeff always has some good coral.

Title: Re: 1st Newnan
Post by: mullet on September 06, 2009, 04:13:48 pm

 Last time I talked to him his honey holes had dried up. But he had a pile at the house.

Title: Re: 1st Newnan
Post by: Hillbilly on September 06, 2009, 07:16:17 pm

Yeah, since construction has come to a screeching halt, nobody's digging the ground up.

Title: Re: 1st Newnan
Post by: Woodland Roamer on September 07, 2009, 02:21:37 pm

Nice point Jim, glad to see you back at it.

Alan

Title: Re: 1st Newnan
Post by: jcinpc on September 12, 2009, 04:43:23 am

WOW, that makes my heart  feel good to see you do my coral justice like that,lol. thats a killer point. I remember exactly where that coral came from and wished that site was still open, it was open only a few months for a pipeline and I found the finest raw orange coral there, it sold quick. Eddie is right I do sit on some still but I bust my butt for what I have, no more of the big 100lbers or even 50lber where you can drive big dinner plate spalls off of. I have been selling mainly to people who slab so as not to waste these 10 lb heads, again thats a fine point.

(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g228/jcinpc/DSC07017.jpg)
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g228/jcinpc/DSC06774.jpg)
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g228/jcinpc/DSC06770.jpg)
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g228/jcinpc/DSC06769.jpg)
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g228/jcinpc/DSC02615-1.jpg)

Title: Re: 1st Newnan
Post by: Hardawaypoints on September 14, 2009, 07:21:40 pm

Thanks, Jeff.  Those pictures of that rock of yours make me drool.  I saved the biggest pieces of what I got from you so I could do them justice when I could handle it.  That piece was just screaming my name every time I would open the box and I couldn't ignore it any longer. Glad (& lucky) I didn't trash it.  Looking forward to when I work the nerve up again. It is nice to have such a pretty rock to work.

Alan, you don't know how good it is to be able to turn out a decent point again.  I mostly pressure flaked chips so I wouldn't ruin good pieces of rock for too long.  That's why most of my new stuff is little. That shoulder lets me know in a hurry when I've gone too far.

Jim