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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: bowmo on May 18, 2015, 12:58:33 pm

Title: polka dot agate point
Post by: bowmo on May 18, 2015, 12:58:33 pm

Preeeeetty sure the chunk I made this from was never heated, but I don't know I bought it as a thick slab at Flint Ridge last year. Man o man it was HARD to chip. Screwed up the notching pretty bad but oh well. As hard as the stone is I'm just glad they got as far in as they did. Never gone to punch a flake out, didn't have the punch slip, hit the heck out of it and have nothing happen. Very unsettling.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/wakolbinger/11248066_10153336796243524_3356088202692918560_n.jpg)


(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/wakolbinger/11014945_10153336796403524_604071685462044814_n.jpg)

Title: Re: polka dot agate point
Post by: soy on May 18, 2015, 05:12:48 pm

Nice!

Title: Re: polka dot agate point
Post by: Zuma on May 18, 2015, 06:50:37 pm

Those notches look good to me.
I can usually get a little more by trying to get a
complimentry flake up from the base.
I guessing thats heated as it has a luster
and raw is near impossible.
Zuma

Title: Re: polka dot agate point
Post by: Trapper Rob on May 18, 2015, 09:00:47 pm

Looks good to me.

Title: Re: polka dot agate point
Post by: JackCrafty on May 18, 2015, 09:18:08 pm

 8)

Title: Re: polka dot agate point
Post by: cowboy on May 18, 2015, 09:42:08 pm

Me like, you did a fine job on that one!

Title: Re: polka dot agate point
Post by: bowmo on May 18, 2015, 09:47:23 pm

Thanks guys.

Zuma: there are sooooome agates that work raw. I don't really know anything about polka dot tho. If anything it was underheated, the pictures are deceiving, it has very little sheen to it.