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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: mullet on October 12, 2016, 03:39:50 pm

Title: A Hurricane Matthew Day
Post by: mullet on October 12, 2016, 03:39:50 pm
I chipped out these two the day I stayed home when the Hurricane was raging on the East coast. These are the first I've done in a while But the windy weather kept it cool and blew the mosquitos away. The little one is Tallahatta and the red one is heat treated flint River,"butterscotch".
Title: Re: A Hurricane Matthew Day
Post by: Parnell on October 12, 2016, 05:43:04 pm
Those look good, buddy.  Nice to be back at it.
Title: Re: A Hurricane Matthew Day
Post by: mullet on October 12, 2016, 05:51:00 pm
Thanks, Steve.
Title: Re: A Hurricane Matthew Day
Post by: RickB on October 12, 2016, 06:06:10 pm
Nice points,  butterscotch is my favorite color. That little one looks deadly. Rick B
Title: Re: A Hurricane Matthew Day
Post by: mullet on October 12, 2016, 08:52:26 pm
Thank you, Rick. I'm getting low on the butterscotch.
Title: Re: A Hurricane Matthew Day
Post by: Zuma on October 12, 2016, 09:33:40 pm
Nice ones Eddie. :)
I hope it don't take another cane
to get you to post some more.   ???
Good to hear you survived.
Zuma
Title: Re: A Hurricane Matthew Day
Post by: Orrum on October 12, 2016, 09:45:33 pm
Butterscotch new to me, but then again I am a newbie!
Title: Re: A Hurricane Matthew Day
Post by: Trapper Rob on October 12, 2016, 10:11:53 pm
They look nice Eddie.
Title: Re: A Hurricane Matthew Day
Post by: selfbow joe on October 12, 2016, 10:18:57 pm
They both look good
Title: Re: A Hurricane Matthew Day
Post by: mullet on October 12, 2016, 10:45:36 pm
Thanks, guys. Don, it'll take whatever it takes to get rid of the mosquitoes and we're back in the low 90's.

Orrum, it's what some people call the rock from South Ga. usually found around Flint River and in the Withlacoochie River. It is a semi-transluscent rock that turns red when heat treated. It is a type of high grade Coastal Plains Chert.
Title: Re: A Hurricane Matthew Day
Post by: Orrum on October 13, 2016, 10:16:44 pm
I need to go to the Flint River, isn't there a dirt road you hound there after the road grader fixes the road?
Title: Re: A Hurricane Matthew Day
Post by: mullet on October 13, 2016, 10:37:13 pm
The dirt road I new about off of the river where you had to cross a ditch has been closed off by the city and No Tresspassing signs put up.

I met a guy at the Alafia Rendezvous a few years ago that had a bunch of it. When he found out that I went up there getting it he got real nasty and started talking about peoplecoming up there stealing "his" rock. Turned out he was in charge of Public Service for the City of Flint River and used inmates to dig rock for him.
Title: Re: A Hurricane Matthew Day
Post by: bronco611 on October 14, 2016, 08:17:03 am
i'm glad the hurricane is gone, mullet would be completely out of rock if he had 2 more days at home. good looking pointy rocks
Title: Re: A Hurricane Matthew Day
Post by: Orrum on October 14, 2016, 10:07:00 am
X2 Mullet is doing great things!!  But rock is hard to come by here!
Title: Re: A Hurricane Matthew Day
Post by: mullet on October 14, 2016, 07:38:25 pm
Gracias.
Title: Re: A Hurricane Matthew Day
Post by: bjrogg on October 16, 2016, 05:38:52 am
Nice points Eddie, I really like cooked butterscotch to. Interesting story about the guy you got yours from. Maybe you could get in the chain gang there and keep a few. lol probably better not to make him to mad just in case.
Bjrogg
Title: Re: A Hurricane Matthew Day
Post by: Orrum on October 17, 2016, 12:07:31 am
Me I am goin lookin for flint river! Friend says he can tell me where.
Title: Re: A Hurricane Matthew Day
Post by: vinemaplebows on October 22, 2016, 01:19:33 am
The dirt road I new about off of the river where you had to cross a ditch has been closed off by the city and No Tresspassing signs put up.

I met a guy at the Alafia Rendezvous a few years ago that had a bunch of it. When he found out that I went up there getting it he got real nasty and started talking about peoplecoming up there stealing "his" rock. Turned out he was in charge of Public Service for the City of Flint River and used inmates to dig rock for him.

Obviously a true law enforcement officer with above average ethics.....those criminals will learn now!:)

Great points Eddie:)