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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: RickB on January 27, 2012, 07:46:12 pm

Title: New Point
Post by: RickB on January 27, 2012, 07:46:12 pm

Finally got off my butt, went camping at Edisto Beach SC, and did some knapping this past weekend around the campfire. Here is a photo of my first point for the year. Light billet work but mostly pressure flaked from a slab of Flint River GA flint. 5" long and 1 1/2" wide. Enjoy, Rick B


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Title: Re: New Point
Post by: TRACY on January 27, 2012, 08:19:48 pm

Awesome point Rick! Material looks very workable. Like the color a lot

Tracy

Title: Re: New Point
Post by: bubby on January 27, 2012, 08:27:02 pm

that's sweet, love the color, Bub

Title: Re: New Point
Post by: Tower on January 27, 2012, 09:24:00 pm

Great color!  Very nice flake scaring. Love it!

Title: Re: New Point
Post by: Sparrow on January 27, 2012, 11:31:27 pm

Nice !

Title: Re: New Point
Post by: mullet on January 27, 2012, 11:42:26 pm

Very nice, Rick. Bet you got that slab from a mutual friend in N.C. ;D

Title: Re: New Point
Post by: RickB on January 28, 2012, 12:48:39 am

Mullet, I got the slab from an older gentleman in LeGrange GA. I was at a rock dig there at the Hogg Mine and I spotted him selling some rock and knapping. I travel with my gear so I sat down with him and turned out an obsidian point while he was working on some Flint River. He liked the point I made, showed it to a few people, and said "here, try some of this Flint River and see what you can do with it". He gave me some pieces of it to try and I promptly went to work on a piece of it. Got in a hurry and snapped it in half trying to work around some cortex. Made a nice point out of one half though. Rick B

Title: Re: New Point
Post by: piper on January 28, 2012, 01:41:58 pm

Rick......Nice F/R and nice chipping......Good to see you posting points again  ....Looking fordward to seeing you at the Walk a bout farm knapp-in......

Title: Re: New Point
Post by: Jimbob on January 28, 2012, 03:11:28 pm

Nice point!!  Where was that beach? With all this warm weather, I have been gettin the urge to go campin.

Title: Re: New Point
Post by: RickB on January 28, 2012, 04:42:53 pm

JimBob, wife and I camp alot at Edisto Beach State Park here in South Carolina. I walk the beach looking for fossils, shark teeth and artifacts (pottery/points). Most afternoons I'll build a campfire and work on some rock.
Curt- I'll be there at your get together for sure. Stretch it out to 2 days this spring? Rick B

Title: Re: New Point
Post by: Jimbob on January 28, 2012, 04:47:10 pm

Cool stuff, we always used to go camping up at Carolina Beach, NC.  I always had a good time.  Its been a while since I have been there and I hear that you now have to have a membership to get on the beach.

Title: Re: New Point
Post by: mullet on January 28, 2012, 07:46:00 pm

Hey Curt;
Are you gonna make the Dade City knap-in this year? It's gonna be a big one with a 1840 Rendevous also.

Title: Re: New Point
Post by: knap_123 on January 30, 2012, 11:28:11 am

love that blade!!  f.r. is some of my favorite rock