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Heres a Cahokia !
seminolewind:
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KHalverson:
WICKED!
on both counts.
flungonin:
Seminole, I know your damn good with all the expertise you put into any point that looks as though it should go into an art gallery. My question. On the first point posted could you have gotten that point to come out the same without the heat treating. I mean, is there a greater possibility of it snapping cause of the length and being so thin without being heat treated. Your work is awesome, probably for you it would have taken a little longer with the same results but, for us that struggle to change the debige ratio more in our favor as we go , tell me.
seminolewind:
--- Quote from: flungonin on September 04, 2014, 01:09:43 am ---Seminole, I know your damn good with all the expertise you put into any point that looks as though it should go into an art gallery. My question. On the first point posted could you have gotten that point to come out the same without the heat treating. I mean, is there a greater possibility of it snapping cause of the length and being so thin without being heat treated. Your work is awesome, probably for you it would have taken a little longer with the same results but, for us that struggle to change the debige ratio more in our favor as we go , tell me.
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Thanks man I appreciate the complements. For me patience is the best thing when knapping I take quite a while examining the point before and striking or pressure and make sure I have good platforms all the way to the finishing stages. This Cahokia took me over 3 hours alone. As far as heat treating goes it is a way to get otherwise grainy stone to improve it's ability to achieve the conchoidal fracture required to knap rocks. Heat treating changes the molecular properties of the stone to a more glassy quality an in General allows flakes to travel further. One drawback with heat treating stoke is that in general it will make a more fragile point . Treated stone also often enhances a stones color. In many cases people like more color and the glassy look of the flake scars so if I am selling a set I'll use heat treated stone. A lot of stones that get heat treated can be knapped raw but just don't produce the same ease in knapping. If I am making a hunting set I am not to worried about heat treatment as long as I can get the projectile thin and sharp. Long and thin heat treated points such as this Cahokia are impractical for anything other than being in a case and looking pretty this point is extremely fragile.
seminolewind:
Damn auto correct got me a couple times in this reply...maybe it was just my home schoolin'
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