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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: rileyconcrete on April 18, 2010, 08:13:49 pm

Title: Latest Blades and a Few Points.........
Post by: rileyconcrete on April 18, 2010, 08:13:49 pm
Well last weekend and this weekend this is what I have accomplished.  Not to mention all the ones I broke.  The knife and knife blade are of some burns green I picked up at Glass Buttes Knap-In.  the dagger is of a tri-colored midnight lace looking obsidian from glass butte.  The small point is mahagony, the other small is midnight lace, and last a piece of some kind of jasper I found along the snake river. Have no clue what it is just I found it and that was the only piece around. Luckily I got a point from it. Thanks for looking.

Tell

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Title: Re: Latest Blades and a Few Points.........
Post by: rileyconcrete on April 18, 2010, 08:16:04 pm
Oh yeah the larger point is pumkin obsidian.

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Title: Re: Latest Blades and a Few Points.........
Post by: DanaM on April 18, 2010, 08:44:33 pm
Nice work Tell, some real nice points and blades. I have to laugh at all the different names for obsidian though sounds like a marketing gimmick :P
Title: Re: Latest Blades and a Few Points.........
Post by: rileyconcrete on April 18, 2010, 09:01:47 pm
Yeah I didnt really know all the names until I went to the knap in.  There you will learn them fast and know them by heart by the time you leave.

Tell
Title: Re: Latest Blades and a Few Points.........
Post by: mullet on April 18, 2010, 09:20:02 pm
 Nice points. I really like that one with the stripe. You have to be lucky to live near Glass Buttes.
Title: Re: Latest Blades and a Few Points.........
Post by: cowboy on April 18, 2010, 09:41:12 pm
"ditto" on that! I'd love to make glass beutts one of these days! That's some nice stuff there!!
Title: Re: Latest Blades and a Few Points.........
Post by: rileyconcrete on April 18, 2010, 11:26:45 pm
Thanks guys.

You all should come one year.  There is more obsidian there than anyone could ever use. Its not that hard to dig up some good stuff either.  I brought home a whole bunch of it.  It is good stuff.

Tell
Title: Re: Latest Blades and a Few Points.........
Post by: Knocker on April 19, 2010, 02:19:08 am
Nice work Tell!  I think you certainly did well by that piece of Burns Green...

Keith
Title: Re: Latest Blades and a Few Points.........
Post by: jamie on April 19, 2010, 06:51:01 am
great work. i love that burns green.