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bubby:
Not only problems getting to the point, but the few finished points he posted are less than impressive, iowabow is all abo all the time and i have some of his work and it is impressive

JW_Halverson:

--- Quote from: bubby on June 17, 2015, 10:14:44 pm ---Not only problems getting to the point, but the few finished points he posted are less than impressive, iowabow is all abo all the time and i have some of his work and it is impressive

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Yeah, but he has a cherished copper turkey call!

Stringman:
With respect to John and his remarkable ABO talents. This has nothing to do with ABO vs modern. This is about one guy stirring the pot and claiming we're all doin it wrong.

Bottom line is: I don't much care. Admittedly, I still have a lot to learn, but clearly he ain't the teachin kind, so I'll get my lessons elsewhere. I enjoy hittin rock to make a variety of point styles FOR FUN!! Some days I play with abo tools. Other days I use copper. The rest of this academia is on the left side of useless to me. In the beginning I was interested in what he had to say. No longer..

Chippintuff:
Since Ben seems to be unable to state his contention clearly, I will attempt to lay it out. He has been riding this wagon for a few years but manages to stay in a fog so that it is hard to know what to rebut. I have been seeing his posts on some other forums for a few years, and they are all just alike. Ben seems to have a need to "prove" that he is the only person ever to figure out how the Native Americans made stone tools. He claims that all modern American knappers have followed the lead of a few experimental knappers who were using the wrong tools the wrong way and getting results unlike what the Native Americans made. He contends that all of us unauthentic knappers should surrender our practice and deem him king of the knapping business. It is a position of pure arrogance. He claims that in archaeological finds there are no tools like the ones modern knappers use, and the ones that have been found are short (perhaps 2-3 inch) sections of antler, and in studying the oldest records about how the Native Americans knapped, they never used methods like the ones modern American knappers use. He has made a huge discovery of their method and needs to proclaim the knapping truth to the world and scorn all of us modern hobbyists. Did I nail it Ben?

WA

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