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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: gene roberts on April 27, 2008, 02:18:54 am

Title: I am new.
Post by: gene roberts on April 27, 2008, 02:18:54 am

Hey people I am new to flint knapping and I live in Alabama.My question is can you knap chert???

Title: Re: I am new.
Post by: El Destructo on April 27, 2008, 02:58:32 am

Quote from: gene roberts on April 27, 2008, 02:18:54 am

Hey people I am new to flint knapping and I live in Alabama.My question is can you knap chert???

                           Why Hell Yes ....you can knap Chert!!! Works greak.....you'll hear from a Bunch on this!!

Title: Re: I am new.
Post by: Hillbilly on April 27, 2008, 11:41:25 am

90% of knapping material is chert of one sort or another. All chert isn't created equal, though-some knaps really good raw, some needs heat, and some is too fractured up and hackly to use. What kind you got? That Alabama Fort Payne chert is good stuff.

Title: Re: I am new.
Post by: Strongbow88 on April 27, 2008, 02:39:56 pm

what part of alabama are you from. I live in dothan.

Title: Re: I am new.
Post by: gene roberts on April 27, 2008, 04:09:01 pm

COOL,I live bot 30 miles away from Ft.Payne.I live in Jackson County.

Title: Re: I am new.
Post by: Hillbilly on April 27, 2008, 04:19:55 pm

Ft. Payne chert comes from outcrops in the Fort Payne Mississippian limestone formation which runs from Alabama up through Tennessee into Kentucky. Some of it is excellent material.

Title: Re: I am new.
Post by: gene roberts on April 27, 2008, 05:10:19 pm

Cool,I need to get me some.