Al33
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Chocktawlb got it right when he said this knapping thing would consume me. A few weeks back I posted my first ever two knapped points which are the first two in the group pic. The rest of these have been knapped since then with the white quartz one done yesterday afternoon. Most of them are made from Texas flint but there are some obsidian and dacite points in there too. I am most proud of the white quartz one because I made it from a rock I had found a few years ago on the shores of Lake Allatoona and kept for just such an occasion. I wished now I had taken a before pic of the rock. It was about 2.5” long, 1.5” wide and about 3/8ths” thick. It had a good amount of crust that I had to remove but obviously the inside looked great. Perhaps because I have found many of the quartz points I have wanted to make one for a long time and did, in fact, fashion a couple a few years ago but I had no idea what I was doing nor the proper tools to do them with. Heck, I didn't even know I was suppose to abrade the edges. With these latest points I certainly used tools more advanced than the Indians used but I am tickled with how it turned out. I shaped it using percussion and finished it off with an Ishi stick.
Several of the points in the group pic were made from pieces of what started out to be knife blades or long spear points. I have yet to make one without breaking it in half or even 3rds.
Thanks to choctawlb and a few others I have learned to get my flakes longer and can now run them an inch or more with pressure flaking on the obsidian but the Texas flint has proved to be much more challenging and I often end up with turtle-backs on my points. Anyway, just wanted to share my progress here among you other knappers and let you know I have been bit pretty hard. I stayed up 'til 1:30 thismorning knapping more quartz and some heat treated coral that I really like.
Chocktawlb got it right when he said this knapping thing would consume me. A few weeks back I posted my first ever two knapped points which are the first two in the group pic. The rest of these have been knapped since then with the white quartz one done yesterday afternoon. Most of them are made from Texas flint but there are some obsidian and dacite points in there too. I am most proud of the white quartz one because I made it from a rock I had found a few years ago on the shores of Lake Allatoona and kept for just such an occasion. I wished now I had taken a before pic of the rock. It was about 2.5” long, 1.5” wide and about 3/8ths” thick. It had a good amount of crust that I had to remove but obviously the inside looked great. Perhaps because I have found many of the quartz points I have wanted to make one for a long time and did, in fact, fashion a couple a few years ago but I had no idea what I was doing nor the proper tools to do them with. Heck, I didn't even know I was suppose to abrade the edges.
Several of the points in the group pic were made from pieces of what started out to be knife blades or long spear points. I have yet to make one without breaking it in half or even 3rds.
Thanks to choctawlb and a few others I have learned to get my flakes longer and can now run them an inch or more with pressure flaking on the obsidian but the Texas flint has proved to be much more challenging and I often end up with turtle-backs on my points. Anyway, just wanted to share my progress here among you other knappers and let you know I have been bit pretty hard. I stayed up 'til 1:30 thismorning knapping more quartz and some heat treated coral that I really like.
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