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Pat B:
I have knapped 1/4" plate glass from the dumpster behind a glass company(or the glass top I broke from my dining room table :o). Lots of good knapping material there. ;D
  Hillbilly, show the pis of your glass point with the wire in it. 8)     Pat

Hillbilly:
Pat, you mean this one?  ;D It's knapped from that principal's-office-door-glass that has the chicken wire in it. You can also sometimes find big chunks of colored slag glass at rock shops, flea markets, and such. The Indians apparantly caught on to the knappability of glass early on. In John Lawson's A New Voyage to Carolina (a journal of his journey through the interiors of what are now NC and SC in 1700-1701 AD, ) he mentioned seeing glass arrowheads at an Indian town near present-day Durham, NC which was hundreds of miles from the nearest white settlements of the time: "I saw, among these Men, very long Arrows, headed with Pieces of Glass, which they had broken from Bottles. They had shap'd them neatly, like the Head of a Dart, but which way they did it, I can't tell." Apparantly, Ishi liked knapping arrowheads from glass, also.


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huntertrapper:
hey thats pretty neat. ill have to practice. the glass im trying with right now is green

david w.:
Wow those are awesome HillBilly. I am hitting the woods soon to look for glass/porcelin lots of stuff dumped there

FlintWalker:
Hillbilly, are you the one who broke the principals glass >:D
   I've seen lots of them made from the bottom of old soda bottles. I think it was the old returnable kind. Best I can remember, they had thick bottoms.

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