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Knapping in Texas
cowboy:
That rock can be extremely tough raw. If you can make your way to just south of San antone there's corn fields full of that stuff (laCoste). They even pave the back roads with it around Lytle.
le0n:
--- Quote from: cowboy on March 20, 2015, 12:14:00 pm ---That rock can be extremely tough raw.
--- End quote ---
^^ true.
but i feel like it could survive a harsh impact.
i spent about an hour trying to spall some of the rock i picked up. trying to plan/predict the resulting flake before applying the hammer stone is difficult. that being said, one out of ten times the rock did what i wanted it to do.
there are twice as many spalls that aren't shown in that photo; these came from three of the original stones.
the shapes of the spalls weren't very pleasing to me, but looking back, they aren't too far away from what i usually get from 3rivers. some are better and some are worse. so i think they'll be more than ok to work with.
le0n:
took a break from the spalling and started peeling a part of a bleach bottle bottom (previous photo) that was given to me; thanks Thunder ;)
still attempting to send flakes across that subtle ripple inside surface:
that smooth ridge is a concave valley.
le0n:
spent another quarter hour on this tonight. i almost have the original surface completely scarred.
i now need to be careful not to send one over the ridge and blow out the other side.
Majuba Tom:
You got some nice spalls up there Le0n. Keep it up you are doing good.
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