Did a little Calf creekin today.

[D. Tiller]

Alright Paul! I want a side profile!!! I want to see how thin you are gettin those suckers. Made a lancelot this evening but its humpy. You have got to show me how to get them thin one of these days!!!! URRRR!!!!

[cowboy]

OK, I'll do it. But I warn you, thiers a thick spot on both of em .

[GregB]

I don't do any knappin', but I sure do appreciate all the work and skill you guys show in these points! Those are some purty points Cowboy!

[cowboy]

Thanks Greg! It's deffinantly a learned process .
 OK, D - here's the side pic's. I warned you they had thick spots . Thier not all that thin by any primitive's standard but I'll be working on that - then deeeep notches .

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[D. Tiller]

HA!!!! I knew it. I'm not as bad as I thought! YIPPPEEEE!!!!!! 

I like them though! Discovered something while knaping today. Always remove the humps first before trying for pattern flaking! Been trying to do both and ended up with points that where humpy here and humpy there. Got my first good one today!

[cowboy]

Congrats! Yeah, you wanna take off your big thinning flakes early in the process so your not breaking your work in half later on.

[Dingleberry]

Killer points Paul,

The TN Classic "Johnstone Champion" strikes again

[cowboy]

Thank ya much Jonathen .

[Hillbilly]

Paul, I remember a few years back seeing a photo of an extinct bison skull somebody found that had a Calf Creek point buried in it. I remember that the archy's were surprised, they always thought that the Calf Creek type was a knife, but to stick through a bison skull, it would've had to have been on the end of an atlatl dart.

[cowboy]

Yeah, I read somewhere that they've decided that they were indeed atlatl points. May have had something to do with that skull.

[D. Tiller]

They must have been a bit smaller than the points you made. How big where they? I will have to try my hand at it myself. I be the large ones where lance points while the smaller ones where atlatl points.

[Hillbilly]

Tiller, that one was big, at least as big as Pauls, maybe bigger. I think a big heavy point on a dart would be the ticket for big mean critters.