Point I.D

[Hillbilly stalker]

My buddy caught me at work today and hit my fishing hole again. I’m smelling a rat, I don’t believe he’s fishing. We haven’t got a reference book yet, can anybody I.D these, especially the middle one ? It’s white quartz from the Piedmont area in SC. Thanks in advance.

 

[creekrunner]

Oh, he’s fishing and looks like he’s catching a few

 

[kmckinnie]

Nice finds. ?

 

[NCHillbilly]

Nice find! Never saw one exactly like that that I remember, but I guess I'd call it a Hardaway/Palmer variant.

 

[Wanderlust]

Think someone lost their fishing rights.?. That middle point is a beauty.

 

[Hillbilly stalker]

I don’t flint Knapp, I took a short coarse many years ago. But I’d bet that white quartz would be tough to work. It breaks in segments or chunks like a piece of cork. I don’t know how you could make a shelf or platform to work With. I’ve never seen one found with the ears still on it.

 

[NCHillbilly]

I don’t flint Knapp, I took a short coarse many years ago. But I’d bet that white quartz would be tough to work. It breaks in segments or chunks like a piece of cork. I don’t know how you could make a shelf or platform to work With. I’ve never seen one found with the ears still on it.

Like anything else, you have to find solid, unweathered pieces. It is tough. You generally have to work it with wood percussion and antler pressure. You can make some decent points, though, if you get a good piece. It's much easier to work than metaquartzite.

The three in the top center of this frame, I made from local quartz and quartzite.

 

[Nicodemus]

Like anything else, you have to find solid, unweathered pieces. It is tough. You generally have to work it with wood percussion and antler pressure. You can make some decent points, though, if you get a good piece. It's much easier to work than metaquartzite.

The three in the top center of this frame, I made from local quartz and quartzite.

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Nice work. Looks like a piece of our chocolate swirl Coastal Plains chert in the lower left.

 

[NCHillbilly]

Nice work. Looks like a piece of our chocolate swirl Coastal Plains chert in the lower left.

Yep. Out of the river in downtown Albany.

 

[Nicodemus]

Yep. Out of the river in downtown Albany.

There was an ancient quarry about 4 miles from my house with that stuff. I found a two handed hammerstone there.

 

[Hillbilly stalker]

Like anything else, you have to find solid, unweathered pieces. It is tough. You generally have to work it with wood percussion and antler pressure. You can make some decent points, though, if you get a good piece. It's much easier to work than metaquartzite.

The three in the top center of this frame, I made from local quartz and quartzite.

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Man thems some nice points. Ours looks kinda dirty with red zig zag veins in it. We have a lot of red dirt around this way.

 

[GeorgiaGlockMan]

Hillbilly stalker, your buddy made some great finds and you are a good friend for letting him "fish".

He is a better friend for actually sharing the pictures.

Love that center point!

NCHillbilly, I am so impressed! Nice work.