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nclonghunter:
Looks good to me

Zuma:
Steve, we are letting the water drizzle here in the Gulf tonight. (exposed pipes) I did get to knap in the sun this afternoon.
 Atlanta was 7 degrees at 8pm.
Looks like you may have to wait a bit to get out comfortably. We got no hogs, any fox?

Thanks longhunter
That may be the best of the lot. lol
The material really is diverse. The blank on the left is similar to the point I made. The blank on the right is way different in color and texture The hunk at the bottom is loaded with crystals and what looks like gold. Pyrite I guess.
Sorry about the tiny photo.

caveman2533:
No fox started that freezing rain  just as I was getting ready to leave and the roads got ugly fast. So stayed home and ground some blades.  The rhyolite I have seen from down there seems to come in all different grades. Even from the same rock, one side good and one side not so.

Zuma:
If this photo comes out ok you will be able to see the stark difference.
At least in the one hunk of rhyolite I found. The one on the left leaves a scale like look
almost like quartzite. (More greenish)
The one on the right is way smoother and gray. The (flow lines ?) are present in each but are more visible in the smooth gray. The flow lines can cause quite a chattering effect. Especially the white ones.
You-all stay snug and warm,Zuma

Zuma:
Had a Chance before the rain this morning to snap this Perkiomen out of one of the preforms.
With a very primitive copper bopper. Works great. lol
For some reason when I resize lately the photos are way smaller than I would like.
Zuma
ps well that one came out fine.

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