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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: jamie on December 13, 2010, 07:37:54 am

Title: rhyolite and mook
Post by: jamie on December 13, 2010, 07:37:54 am

piece of mook  was great to work. had some fractures in it but it chipped like butter and the color is awesome. still have a half dozen or so spalls of it and im jonesing to chip at it. the red one is some type of south american rhyolite. BRUTAL material. really like it though. gotta hit it hard and when pressure flaking you need the very best platform you can make or it will step fracture bad. was only given a small turtleback and a few flakes of the rhyolite. love to get more of it. think it is very similar to the piece james parker was working on at the classic a couple years back.


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/coyotebow/knapping/HPIM4384.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/coyotebow/knapping/HPIM4385.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/coyotebow/knapping/HPIM4386.jpg)

Title: Re: rhyolite and mook
Post by: piper on December 13, 2010, 08:38:23 am

good job Jammie...love that mook....nice points...Curt

Title: Re: rhyolite and mook
Post by: HoBow on December 13, 2010, 09:38:14 am

That mook has amazing colors!  Is most of material that colorful?

Title: Re: rhyolite and mook
Post by: leapingbare on December 13, 2010, 11:53:41 am

very nice!

Title: Re: rhyolite and mook
Post by: mullet on December 13, 2010, 12:00:26 pm

 Those look darn good, Jamie. If you are talking about the red ryolite James made that big blade from I brought it. It actually came from New Mexico and I still have a little bit left.

Title: Re: rhyolite and mook
Post by: Justin Snyder on December 13, 2010, 12:39:02 pm

Wow Jamie, that is pretty.

Title: Re: rhyolite and mook
Post by: jonathan creason on December 13, 2010, 12:54:26 pm

Very nice!

Title: Re: rhyolite and mook
Post by: brian melton on December 13, 2010, 01:38:19 pm

nice... ;D

Title: Re: rhyolite and mook
Post by: jamie on December 13, 2010, 01:49:59 pm

thank you. ed that is the stuff. tougher n hell but i love it. jeff most of the mook ive seen is like a rainbow of colors. love to get some big spalls of this stuff.

Title: Re: rhyolite and mook
Post by: AncientArcher76 on December 13, 2010, 08:14:23 pm

Killer colors Jamie!!!!  I like the Ryholite too looks like my kind of stuff!!! 

Russ

Title: Re: rhyolite and mook
Post by: Mechslasher on December 13, 2010, 10:51:16 pm

sweet!  love the mook.

Title: Re: rhyolite and mook
Post by: Sparrow on December 14, 2010, 01:14:36 am

Mook me !  Man that is some fabulous looking rock. Very sweet points there.  '  Frank

Title: Re: rhyolite and mook
Post by: arappaho on December 14, 2010, 10:53:47 am

Yes, you did a great job with both, but I love that mook!
Joe