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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: flecha on February 24, 2012, 10:25:02 pm

Title: pics of cabin fever
Post by: flecha on February 24, 2012, 10:25:02 pm
Waiting for spring, making little rocks out of big rocks :D
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Post by: Lee Slikkers on February 24, 2012, 10:35:05 pm
Arnold, I made one of those this past Spring but you put mine to shape...gorgeous piece of "glass"

Very nice work!
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Post by: Jimbob on February 25, 2012, 01:28:44 am
 :o :o :o Nice work!
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Post by: Baldmoose on February 25, 2012, 02:49:01 pm
 ::) wow.... pretty amazing point......   gj
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Post by: YosemiteBen on February 25, 2012, 04:37:57 pm
Very fine work! I like the micro serrations.
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Post by: Baldmoose on February 25, 2012, 05:34:15 pm
Just curious as to what you are using as a pressure flaker?   horseshoe nails?
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Post by: mullet on February 25, 2012, 07:34:02 pm
WOW! you do have time on your hands. Nice point! If it will help you look forward to Spring; I just juiced 3 1/2 gallons of Lemon juice and 2 gallons of orange juice today. I'll pick the rest of the oranges tomorrow. ;D
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Post by: bowtarist on February 26, 2012, 12:51:40 pm
WOW! you do have time on your hands. Nice point! If it will help you look forward to Spring; I just juiced 3 1/2 gallons of Lemon juice and 2 gallons of orange juice today. I'll pick the rest of the oranges tomorrow. ;D

 >:D There you go again Mullet!!  >:D I planted some seeds w/ youngest today, spring is on the way up here too.

nice point flecha, looks sharp. dpgratz  ......pickin oranges off his own trees that...sum mum a gum...trailing off w/mumbles of profanity.
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Post by: mullet on February 26, 2012, 10:15:43 pm
I'll be picking collards, mustards, green beans and papayas next weekend. This is the second planting go around. I just planted cabbage, tabasco's, bell peppers and watermelons. ;D
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Post by: Will H on February 26, 2012, 11:17:25 pm
Thats one cool little point! Well done!
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Post by: flecha on February 27, 2012, 01:17:23 am
Just curious as to what you are using as a pressure flaker?   horseshoe nails?

I have a piece of antler that is shaped like a delicate slot head screw driver.  Sharp, fine obsidian doesn't take much force to make the serrations, so the antler works fine.  Thanks for the compliments.
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Post by: Tower on February 27, 2012, 09:28:24 pm
That is one bada$$ point. Well made & well done!
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Post by: Mesquite on April 25, 2012, 01:00:58 am
Awesome point, don't think I've seen any like it. Is there a name for this style?
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Post by: flecha on April 25, 2012, 02:12:59 am
Mesquite,

It is my version of a "Gunther Barbed".  Most of the originals were from agate and jasper (limited obsidian examples exist in the record).  The style in this form is rather localized to specific parts of South West Oregon (Rogue Valley).  I grew up at the "Gold Hill" site.  Most of the site was destroyed during the flood of '64.  Earl Moore's book Silent Arrows describes the flood water destroying the site.  By the time I was a kid we mostly only found debitague flakes and some small Cascade Willow Leaf styled points.
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Post by: bubby on April 25, 2012, 07:56:34 am
fletcha, down here in the lassen complex there were about 5 variations of the gunther, all but one were a high grade obs, with one almost exclusivlly a red material, most likelly a jasper, cool point, Bub
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Post by: StevenT on April 25, 2012, 10:49:04 am
Awesome, awesome and awesome. That is one nice looking point. Very fine detail. If you get a chance, could you add a picture of your antler tool. Thanks.
Title: Re: pics of cabin fever
Post by: Mesquite on April 26, 2012, 01:19:27 am
I wonder if that little wing with the black spot will break off when you shoot it. Do you collect them or actually hunt them?
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Post by: flecha on April 26, 2012, 03:49:10 pm
I hunt with them, they last about one shot.