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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Parnell on January 03, 2014, 05:46:44 pm

Title: What would you call it?
Post by: Parnell on January 03, 2014, 05:46:44 pm: I've been wanting to make a spear of my own for so long and I finally got a head worthy of it on the New Year! Don't know the rock type...don't know the style. Just sort of happened. Made the arrowhead today. They are improving!
Title: Re: What would you call it?
Post by: Trapper Rob on January 03, 2014, 07:00:36 pm: Nice work I found one in our fields that looked like that type you made.
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Post by: mullet on January 03, 2014, 09:36:05 pm: I'd call it SWEET!
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Post by: seminolewind on January 04, 2014, 12:27:35 pm: Nice dude what's the black material?
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Post by: Knapper on January 04, 2014, 03:04:39 pm: I'd call it "job well done"
Knapper
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Post by: Parnell on January 04, 2014, 03:17:52 pm: I can't say I know, Elijah. A piece from a bucket at the knapp in. Wish I had more!
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Post by: Zuma on January 05, 2014, 12:58:45 am: Hi Parnell.
I would go with Helderberg chert for the black one, if the material came from central eastern PA. If it came from southwest AR. a possibility could be Pitkin chert. There are a lot of black cherts in many other Devonian formations
but most do not lend themselves for points as large as yours. Grain of salt lol
Zuma
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Post by: Bone pile on January 06, 2014, 08:16:58 am: Pointy rocks rock. Maybe Dacite on the black one .Good job on both
roger
Title: Re: What would you call it?
Post by: Dalton Knapper on January 06, 2014, 11:50:18 am: The triangular one is difficult to pin down because there were a whole slew of triangular points made in many geographic regions. You could call it a Fresno or if you hollow the base slightly, you could call it a Cam Creek or Del Rio point. I have attached a reference to triangular points in Texas: http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/st-plains/prehistory/images/unstemmed.html (http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/st-plains/prehistory/images/unstemmed.html)

The other one looks to me like black Novaculite due to not having much luster. Pitkin is almost always very shiny and often produced a sulfurous or "burnt motor oil" smell when knapped (FYI). It could be other material. If there is any small traces of white matrix, I would go with Novaculite, but not all grades of black Novaculite have any matrix. As far as a name, you might look up Mineral Springs or Gahagan knives.

Regardless, nice work and nice to see.
Title: Re: What would you call it?
Post by: Parnell on January 06, 2014, 05:11:24 pm: The black stuff must be a chert of some sort. It's not Dacite...it's got more of a grain, not glassy. Oh well, it worked! Just got to make some pine pitch and I'll have it hafted. Got the bamboo pole and the rest ready to go.
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Post by: JackCrafty on January 06, 2014, 09:04:01 pm: The larger one looks like a Scottsbluff and the smaller one looks like a Madison or Fort Ancient.
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Post by: mullet on January 07, 2014, 11:26:49 am: The black looks like some of the Ryolite I had in my bucket or that other rock that started with an "A", can't remember the name, from New York or Penn. I did have some very grainey Dacite at the knap-in also.
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Post by: Parnell on January 07, 2014, 01:22:22 pm: It didn't knap at all like Dacite. Much more tough.
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Post by: mullet on January 07, 2014, 05:17:58 pm: If it was tougher then black Ryolite it must have been some of that "Holey Sheezit, toughfern, then all get out, black, concrete". You did good. :)