quartzite point

[mullet]

  Here's a pretty little ,yellow quartzite point I made today. I was surprised how sharp that stuff is. I think this one is going on an arrow.

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[D. Tiller]

Nice Eddie! How hard was it to knapp?

[mullet]

 David, it was really not bad. I'm going to do some more. I picked up a lot of chunks that Hillbilly and Robustus pulverised a year ago at Chris Cades. I love picking up rock bashers big flakes. When I was at Chris' a couple of weeks ago, I found some nice big flakes that hillbilly left. I think it's Keokuc(sp), stuff chips like candy.

[bowmo]

all you people who have rock to play with that ya didn't have to pay for and have shipped to you make me sick! 

thats nice point...

[Keenan]

 sweet point Eddie, Don't see color like that around here. Thanks for sharing

[D. Tiller]

Bowmo, If you saw glass buttes you'd be puking up a lung! 

[stickbender]

     Nice one Eddie!  I still can't do the percussion that Claude was showing me.  I still can't get them thin.  Driving me nuts! 
I get some nice flakes, and then a gouge, and a nice flake, and then a crumbly blunt edge.  Still trying though.  Hey let me know when the Alifia rendezvous is going to be in Jan., and any other primitive get together, that isn't a thousand miles or so away.

                                                                              Wayne

[mullet]

 Wayne when you get the gouge, crumbly edge, (stacking) it is from striking at too steep an angle. And grind that platform.Next time you come over I'll give you a book, it will help. And go on You Tube and look at some of the videos. There are some good ones.

[stickbender]

     Will do.

[Hillbilly]

Nice'un Eddie. Yep, that's some of that yaller quartzite/case hardened steel that I drag out of the river behind the house-same stuff you were hatin' on a couple years ago and said it wasn't fit for anything but an abrading stone. Since you've developed a taste for it now, I'll trade you pound-for pound for some heated coral.   It does break sharp, I've got a couple of those triangles like that that I'm gonna put on arrows. And I didn't realize I left some big Keokuk flakes, I usually snarf them up.  

[stickbender]

     Well Eddie, I hope you learned your lesson.  If you have a good thing going picking up discarded flakes, and spalls, keep quiet!
Now you just lost your edge......

                                                                                           Wayne

[mullet]

  Steve, It still makes a good abrading stone. You'd be suprised how many blades you can get out of it with a saw. The Keokuk was in front of the tent door next to the cedar tree. Somebody stacked them up , real nice.

[Hillbilly]

If they were stacked up real nice, that was probably some big flakes I was saving and forgot to grab-finders keepers I guess. I knocked out a big keokuk dalton preform down there. How does that quartzite slab? I'll send you a big box of it if you'll slice it up for us-I get some pieces sometimes that have really good color, but are too thick and square to percussion down.

[cowboy]

Good one Eddie! Nice amber color too - I'd be putin it on an arra too .

[brian melton]

      Nice point Eddie!!!