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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: nclonghunter on February 09, 2014, 10:33:46 am

Title: Rhyolite
Post by: nclonghunter on February 09, 2014, 10:33:46 am: Bryan Irwin and I assaulted a mountain and collected some gray and black Rhyolite Beast Rock. Time to start breaking some rock... :o
Title: Re: Rhyolite
Post by: bowtarist on February 09, 2014, 10:54:23 am: I watched James Parker break a big chunk of the green up into a huge biface w/ just a dogwood billet at the Classic a couple years ago. Totally impressive! Nice haul, but I bet your knapping tools are shaking w/ terror. ;D
Title: Re: Rhyolite
Post by: Zuma on February 09, 2014, 12:21:21 pm: Where is my popcorn? Can't wait to see some splinters and hear your oh, craps.
Or adulates. Nice haul.
Zuma
Title: Re: Rhyolite
Post by: nclonghunter on February 09, 2014, 03:31:01 pm: LOL....just spent an hour or so trying to beat out a good biface, that ended with a pile of rubble. The Beast bested me today.

Enjoy your popcorn.. :D
Title: Re: Rhyolite
Post by: TRACY on February 09, 2014, 06:03:03 pm: Get the dogwood bat out! Steve Parker made a nice point at the Classic one year out of that green stuff but he lost some skin and blood in the process. Good luck and eat your wheaties ;D

Tracy
Title: Re: Rhyolite
Post by: bryan irwin on February 09, 2014, 08:42:43 pm: I got some biface out of the green still working on the black going back to get that hundred pound boulder
Title: Re: Rhyolite
Post by: caveman2533 on February 09, 2014, 09:58:53 pm: Looks like the darker colored stuff is good stuff. the lighter grey looks like leaverite. I am jealous.
Title: Re: Rhyolite
Post by: Outbackbob48 on February 09, 2014, 10:12:56 pm: Man Rock, not fit for ole men :(
Title: Re: Rhyolite
Post by: Zuma on February 10, 2014, 01:31:45 pm: Some of what I found out in an earlier thread---
Helps to recognize the grain (flow?) It does not always go straight and is susceptible to 180's.
The flow also seems to have a (lap) component. Smooth flake from one side of the bi face chatter from the opposite side. Sort of like banded agate. Also I found flakes to actually hump over the more white veins. Very tough (the white). I can be rewarding though when you get yourself a keeper.
Zuma
Title: Re: Rhyolite
Post by: Hillbilly on February 11, 2014, 06:37:13 pm: Quote from: TRACY on February 09, 2014, 06:03:03 pm
Get the dogwood bat out! Steve Parker made a nice point at the Classic one year out of that green stuff but he lost some skin and blood in the process. Good luck and eat your wheaties ;D

Tracy

And the green is the easy stuff. I've got permanent bruises from the black porphyritic stuff. :)

Nice haul of man rock! Bryan, I gotta get back down that way and get some more of that soon.
Title: Re: Rhyolite
Post by: nclonghunter on February 11, 2014, 08:56:36 pm: Hillbilly, Bryan said you would like to have some of that rock...Got a big boulder of that grey stuff just waiting for someone to pack it out.