Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: gstoneberg on May 07, 2012, 03:37:04 pm
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I didn't have a lot of time to knapp this weekend, but I spent the time I had working on thinning with percussion and some on ishi stick flaking. I started with dacite (not sure where I got that) and got a point. Then I broke several more before finally getting a teardrop point last night out of something I'm sure I picked up off the tarp at Cross Plains. Not sure what it is, but it's a pretty pink with some pretty lines through it. That dacite is really nice to work with, I had a nice big preform about done and tried one of those basal thinning flakes.
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8167/7146326155_b97a6cf6e3_z.jpg)
There was enough left in the larger piece that I was able to finish out a 130gr hunting point. I used the ishi almost exclusively. I can see why so many youtube videos feature dacite as it works so nicely. I stalled a couple flakes toward the end. Then the last point is the first time I was able, with regular percussion, to thin a biface thin enough to finish. It wasn't a large preform, but it was a thin one. Was a little gun-shy on the base thinning so it was too thick there. I confess to using indirect on that one as I was so sick of breaking stuff by then I just wanted to get done. Need to work on symmetry. Normally I first see symmetry issues when I'm taking pictures of the finished point. This was no exception. Stalled out the notches badly on both of them.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7104/7007081178_3029c24ed6_z.jpg)
Making progress, but sloooooooowly.
George
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Lookin good George. Both are nice points. The pink may be Burlington.
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They look good to me. At least you are taking baby steps. I'm not even crawling yet.
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man!!!!!! you just keep getting better and better!
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Nice points and they look arrow ready. ' Frank
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You're definitely using your time wisely. Nothing I hate worse than seeing someone do honey-do's when they could be making gravel!! ;D
Nice job on them two, George! That pink rock is burlington and came from a creek in western IL (i believe.)
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Yes Sir George!!!
Those points Look Mighty Fine to me!
I picked up some of that Dacite and Burlington from the Debitage Pile out at Cross Plains as well...
Have some pretty decent Preforms made up but the two points I finished (Argggg!) were Baseless as I kept loosing length trying to wrangle Basal Thinning...
ARGGG! :)
-gus
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Very nicely done George.
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I don't see nothin wrong with the symetry on that black one George - looking darn good! If that pink ain't burlington then it's some of that Kay county that byron had.
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Shhhhhh I thought we were not tell anyone lol.
You're definitely using your time wisely. Nothing I hate worse than seeing someone do honey-do's when they could be making gravel!! ;D
Nice job on them two, George! That pink rock is burlington and came from a creek in western IL (i believe.)
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Hehe, I mean eastern IL... ::)
anyways I remember pickin that piece up cause of the wavy lines in it. Only rock that I've seen with those "contour" lines. Glad you made it pretty George!!
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It was a straight sided cobble about the size of my fist. I was hoping to get several large flakes out of it to make more points from, but nearly all the thinning flakes broke into multiple pieces. I ended up getting two spalls I think might still have points in them. They are marked better than the point I made was.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7088/7155524936_c3ed3f9d30_z.jpg)
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7072/7155526030_e59837f2b2_z.jpg)
I might take those 2 over to Eddie's later this week. Maybe one of the Florida guys can make something special from them.
George