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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: ken75 on October 23, 2009, 10:31:28 am
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hey guys found two four foot by four foot boulders of this stuff with pieces all around . think im going back tom. with my sludge hammer . just curious if this is coastal plains flint . im in southwest GA near alabama and florida line
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Looks like costal plains to me, and you are in the right area. It will work raw but works better if heat treated. Bill
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yup...looks like coastal plains chert to me. Cook it, slowly bringing the temp up to about 400-450 degrees and it should glass up nicely
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yea i'd say its coastal too... i would not use a sludge hammer if you can help it.. A sludge hammer will cone it up bad.
I don't know about all this slow cooking stuff billy.. i have cooked allot of rock and for the most part i never exceed the max timp but i cook it fast.. I'll set the oven to 250* let it sit for 1hr then ramp it up 50* an hr let it set at max timp for 5-8 hrs then i just tern it off.. I've cooked coastal , coral , horse creek, TX flint , Kay co. , alabats , and some others like this with no problems.
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I put mine in and turn it up to 450 and go to bed. I turn it off in the morning when I go to work and let it cool down all day.
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thanks for the ID and cooking info , leapingbare im not sure i can get it with out the hammer bout 20 miles from the house and the rocks are really four foot wide four foot high and bout three foot thick , i have a frontend loader but nowhere close to the rock. ill post pics of the boulders tom. thanks again for the info.. may have some rock for anyone interested in coastal
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yea i'm interested. :) i
If you gatta use the hammer try to make sure your plat forms are good so you want have to hit it more then once for each spall.
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im gonna try to knock some three and four pound chunks loose, there are a few thirty or forty pound boulders nearby ill get them too
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ooooooooo interested in rock
heck ya
i cant never have enough on hand
especially when ya cant stop knapping.i just gotta make something everyday
either a point or a pound of gravel lol
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Yep. that's Coastal. I collected alot from that area. The clearer stuff will cook at @ 400 degress but the other is gonna need alot more heat
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got a truck full i'll post pics later gotta get some sleep
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here is what i was able to get today ... and learned a lesson about sludge hammers and flint !!!
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Ken, where are you at? That stuff looks like white Coral.
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blakely ga, southwest corner bout 50 west of albany , 35 east of dothan al
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I thought it was novaculite when i saw thw colors in the samples that where displayed. i guess i have never seen this type of chert.
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not sure im new to this , found four boulders total today all are half as big as my little izuzu truck ! im gonna be knocking chunks for a while!!
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need some help or maybe could we get some if we pay for shipping? just asking if possible if you make somthing from this show us the finished product.
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Ken ud better save some of that for me ;) ;) I wish I could drive down ur present im almost done I am so damn picky it almost consumes me Holmegaard sits here almost done, I made a Iron wood/HHB snakey wich my draw knife ripped into a knot and went to deep..that made me mad that was a nice one...now I have a musclewood ELB on the tiller..lookin good but has a slight snakey ness on one limb...it looks great strung but has a waggle unstrung that bothers me..I will just give it to u and maybe get u one those other ones..But Im still gonna mak u a great bow...One ul never get or find ul see... Hey did u get my message..was wondering if anyone knows where and what to look for to find stone in newyork state!!!
Cograt bro on ur treasure..u lucky duck
Russ
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made a run today got a boulder that was all that three of us could lift ! also got pics of all four boulders
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WOW you ought to have enough rock for a long time. ;)
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what are you using to get the largd spalls off with?
and nice rock too
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Is that out there near hwy 27 I have got some from there.
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hey a local ! no its from cedar springs , i work at the mill , so i go by on the way home its in the right of way on a dirt road
sailor im bumping it "lightly" with a hammer on the ledges it spalls usually with one hit, trying to make sure i dont fracture the rock
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hey ken, thats some costal plain alright. the stuff on the outter edges is going to be your best stuff. the lumpy concrete in the middle is pretty much usless. if youcan find smaller pieces like the size of a football or fist size you'll get a better quality. it will heat good at about 450 but you have to dry it for at least 8 hrs. that stuff holds alot of water!! i no a guy in dothan thats has tons in his yard you can go and knap with thats a great guy. if you want i'll pm his # for ya.
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Ken75, just put those big boys on a flat bed and head for Pappy's. :o
He will even show you some knapping techniques. 8) At least I would think he would. You would, wouldn't you Pappy? ;D
Wayne
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after seeing pappy's bows and his weekend builds i was going to ask him to adopt me , and tenneesse to boot ! i'll bring a flatbed of rock and some staves .. pappy i dont eat much !
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Nice Find there, Ken! That ought to last you awhile. ;)
And I agree with what knap_123 said. Looks like the coastal plains chert I've been
collecting from the Savannah River just south of Augusta, but yours is much
whiter in color. I have to 'dry it out' before I can actually cook it or else it will
crack up in the fire when heated. A few days next to a wood stove or buried under a
few inches of sand in a pit fire ought to do it.
I see a LOT of bonfires in your future. ;D
Joe