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quartzite point
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. ;D ;D Since you've developed a taste for it now, I'll trade you pound-for pound for some heated coral. ;D 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. :)
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