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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Outbackbob48 on February 13, 2010, 09:23:32 pm

Title: Short life
Post by: Outbackbob48 on February 13, 2010, 09:23:32 pm

I knocked out this obsidian head took pictures an dropped it on stone hearth an broke base, I guess it wasn't meant to be.  :(   Bob

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Title: Re: Short life
Post by: nugget on February 13, 2010, 09:34:28 pm

Nice Point. Sucks that it broke. Can you still save it without the base? Or super glue the base back on.

Title: Re: Short life
Post by: Outbackbob48 on February 13, 2010, 09:46:40 pm

 I glued it back on an put it in a keeper case for now, I don,t like gluing a point just doesn't seem right to me.  Bob

Title: Re: Short life
Post by: mullet on February 13, 2010, 10:04:46 pm

 I don't like glueing either, Bob. It was a nice point, though. Like the little S swirl.

Title: Re: Short life
Post by: Josh on February 13, 2010, 11:56:28 pm

nice point!  Sorry it broke... -josh

Title: Re: Short life
Post by: ricktrojanowski on February 14, 2010, 07:46:43 am

Nice point Bob.  Sorry about the break.

Title: Re: Short life
Post by: jamie on February 14, 2010, 02:33:41 pm

nice work bob. with the base gone you still got plenty of point left. i see a nice levanna in there.

Title: Re: Short life
Post by: stickbender on February 14, 2010, 05:05:13 pm

    OutbackBob48,  sorry to hear it broke.  I know the feeling.  ;) I had a nice point going, and dropped it, and it hit edge of a paint can, and broke the ear off of it.  Funny part is, it hit in such a way, that it removed a lump near the base, that I couldn't get rid of also!  ::) Now if it had just gotten rid of the lump, and left the rest intact, I would have been happy. 8)  Is that a circle cut pattern floor? 8)  That is what I am putting in my house, in Montana.

                                                                              Wayne

Title: Re: Short life
Post by: chessieboy on February 14, 2010, 05:20:22 pm

thats not broke its just fluted short ;D

Title: Re: Short life
Post by: Outbackbob48 on February 14, 2010, 05:42:40 pm

Stickbender, (is that a circlecut floor pattern) No the point is setting on fireplace mantle an background stone is split dornics, dornics are big round fieldstone that we have in this area. They are hard as _ _ _ _ an I believe they are granite mixed with maybe quartz. They have a lot of color after split. Every farm around here has a pile of them  at edge of field. Later Bob

Title: Re: Short life
Post by: Lombard on February 14, 2010, 06:53:26 pm

Bob, that is a bummer. Just gotta say; your fingers look sore.

Title: Re: Short life
Post by: recurve shooter on February 15, 2010, 12:36:54 am

lol looks like you got soft lil Lady hands.  ::) ::) :o

Title: Re: Short life
Post by: Outbackbob48 on February 15, 2010, 09:30:43 am

Lol ya those hands have a slight abuse problem, Man the camera sure doesn't hide  much. Been doing alot of work outside an the snow will make your hands crack bad then fill cracks full of dirt an you get the picture. If I thought they were going to look that bad i would have worn a glove. A mans hands are his most abused tool. I read that somewhere. Later Bob :-[

Title: Re: Short life
Post by: recurve shooter on February 15, 2010, 02:57:46 pm

hey man a feller is supposed to have messed up hands.  ;D

Title: Re: Short life
Post by: Outbackbob48 on February 15, 2010, 04:50:43 pm

I quess I lucked out I got a pair of them ;D Bob