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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive on November 09, 2013, 11:59:12 am

Title: Some cowboy rocks
Post by: Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive on November 09, 2013, 11:59:12 am

 Since Cowboy was generous enough to send me some great rocks, I figured I'd share the pics with you. I heat treated them in my fire pit. The rock was all top notch!  thanks Paul!  All antler tools as usual

Title: Re: Some cowboy rocks
Post by: knapperhead on November 09, 2013, 01:16:41 pm

Nice work

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Post by: Majuba Tom on November 09, 2013, 07:55:41 pm

Quote from: knapperhead on November 09, 2013, 01:16:41 pm

Nice work

I agree. :)

Title: Re: Some cowboy rocks
Post by: mullet on November 09, 2013, 08:00:41 pm

Very nice, Ryan. I guess I'm going to throw some in the kiln. Seems like it is working for everybody else with the heat treat.

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Post by: JackCrafty on November 10, 2013, 01:39:19 am

Cool!   8)

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Post by: AncientArcher76 on November 10, 2013, 04:00:38 am

Nice work! Perty Texas rock...wished I had rockslike Paul does probably got a flint stone wall around his property...lol


Russ

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Post by: koan on November 10, 2013, 07:06:56 am

Nice work! Thats definately Cowboy rock... only thing i can do with that stuff is drive nails, lol... Man, its hard stuff....Brian

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Post by: cowboy on November 10, 2013, 07:27:45 am

And that's some top notch knapping there Ryan! Kinda refreshing to see this morning, thanks for posting.

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Post by: TRACY on November 10, 2013, 09:03:35 pm

Real nice work Ryan!

Tracy

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Post by: Prarie Bowyer on November 11, 2013, 01:31:20 pm

So I have a webber grill.  could I use that to heat treat and if so how? details please?

Title: Re: Some cowboy rocks
Post by: Bone pile on November 12, 2013, 12:00:05 pm

I need to heat some up also.They knapped OK raw,maybe a little heat to slick em' up
Good looking points and blade
bone

Title: Re: Some cowboy rocks
Post by: Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive on November 12, 2013, 12:33:48 pm

thanks guys.

Prarie bowyer- I dont know if I'd use a webber grill as it may heat up and cool down too quick... but I don't know. I am sure someone has done it. I bury mine in dry sand about 3 inches down and build a nice even fire over them for  about 4-6 hours then let die all by itself and dig up 2 days after and they are usually still pretty hot. Just make sure there is no rain in the forcast

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Post by: swamp yeti on November 13, 2013, 09:19:19 am

Gorgeous points.

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Post by: bubby on November 13, 2013, 06:11:05 pm

I think mullet posted how he does it with charcoal, I think it took 20# of charcoal

Title: Re: Some cowboy rocks
Post by: JackCrafty on November 13, 2013, 06:47:35 pm

Here's a link to Cowboy's heat treating thread:   http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,24988.msg335795.html#msg335795 

Title: Re: Some cowboy rocks
Post by: JackCrafty on November 13, 2013, 06:50:45 pm

Here's one of Mullet's threads:  http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,19175.msg265312.html#msg265312

 ;D