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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: 1442 on December 27, 2018, 12:30:33 am

Title: another big gravel small point deal
Post by: 1442 on December 27, 2018, 12:30:33 am

 I wanted to try out my phone to post pics so I took a bunch of them while working another piece of gravel tonight.
I hope y'all like a lot of pics

This piece had a few clues showing on the surface hinting that it had hidden obsticles inside and that one end was gonna fall off sooner or later during the process of working it.

I got a starter flake on one end and just tried to take the biggest flakes I could to get it skint.

Title: Re: another big gravel small point deal
Post by: 1442 on December 27, 2018, 12:31:48 am

cont

Title: Re: another big gravel small point deal
Post by: 1442 on December 27, 2018, 12:33:43 am

this is where the end fell off due to the crack

Title: Re: another big gravel small point deal
Post by: 1442 on December 27, 2018, 12:35:53 am

up to this point has been all direct percussion work with a copper bopper

Title: Re: another big gravel small point deal
Post by: 1442 on December 27, 2018, 12:40:08 am

here I've beveled the edge with pressure and will continue thinning with a 3/8" copper rod held under the knee indirect.
I do one side then bevel and work the other side usually

Title: Re: another big gravel small point deal
Post by: 1442 on December 27, 2018, 12:46:54 am

pressure flaked the edges and tried to do some basal notches like an Andice, but one stalled about 1/8" in so I had to do something else and I decided on a newnan. After I was done with it I looked up Newnan points and seen that I didn't get the shape quite right.
Included too is a pic of most of the gravel I got the other day. It's all wet because it's been raining here and we are forecasted to have rain for the next seven days but this was the piece at the top left

Title: Re: another big gravel small point deal
Post by: neuse on December 27, 2018, 05:46:20 am

Dandy work on tough rock.

Title: Re: another big gravel small point deal
Post by: bjrogg on December 27, 2018, 11:35:14 am

Glad you got you phone and computer in sync. I love the pictures 1442. Very nice point.
Bjrogg

Title: Re: another big gravel small point deal
Post by: Hawkdancer on December 27, 2018, 11:38:52 am

Nice results!  Moral is to pick up big pieces of gravel and knap carefully? :KN >:D!
Hawkdancer

Title: Re: another big gravel small point deal
Post by: Trapper Rob on December 27, 2018, 07:06:17 pm

Nice work.

Title: Re: another big gravel small point deal
Post by: JEB on December 27, 2018, 09:05:46 pm

My hat is off to you. That is just mean rock right there.

Title: Re: another big gravel small point deal
Post by: 1442 on December 28, 2018, 11:32:42 pm

thanks
one good thing about this rock is it don't break too easy

Title: Re: another big gravel small point deal
Post by: bjrogg on December 29, 2018, 04:38:52 am

Quote from: 1442 on December 28, 2018, 11:32:42 pm

thanks
one good thing about this rock is it don't break too easy

They'd all make nice durable hunting points.
Bjrogg

Title: Re: another big gravel small point deal
Post by: 1442 on December 29, 2018, 10:00:34 am

Yeah,
Instead of replacing an exhausted point, with these you have to replace the exhausted shaft after glancing off a few trees and rocks, ;D

Title: Re: another big gravel small point deal
Post by: Chippintuff on December 30, 2018, 02:07:21 pm

That is a fine example of working tough gravel and getting good results. That one should get you a gold star.

WA

Title: Re: another big gravel small point deal
Post by: 1442 on December 30, 2018, 10:11:20 pm

Thanks
I don't get a gold star though because I couldn't notch it