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one of my thinnest preforms.

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iowabow:
Well I spent a good part of the day breaking biface after biface chasing a rabbit. I hit a certain kind of platform with my antler bopper and had an interesting thought so I used a bunch of chert chasing a rabbit and finally I kinda thinned about as good as my copper. Never thought it would happen but we'll here it is. With steps and all. I was inspired on this one by a marty rueter video where he said I need to really push my skills.

mullet:
Man, that is thin, John. Hope it's not a "secret".

nclonghunter:
Sometimes I will get a preform that looks good but there will be one spot that is too thick or an odd look to it and doesn't fit the rest of the point. I now look at it and decide if I leave it I will never be happy with it, so I decide an avenue of attack and go for it. Used to think breaking them seemed worse than leaving it, but I guess I have gotten used to breaking them...lol

Hopefully you will show us some of the thinning method you learned. That biface looks really thin and wide. Well done! Way to push the learning process. You got a pile of debitage in the background..LOL

iowabow:
No secrets just have to eat dinner first

iowabow:
Ok so I was going to smack this platform that was really to great an angle and it was on the base. With the platform so steep I tilted it to about a 45 degree angle. And gave a good hit.  I never hit a stone like that way unless I want a step. In this case I was trying to step it because it is a fast way for me to hit a stone three times and get some good reduction but that's another story. There happened to be a ridge so everything was there except an unusual choice for where to hit the platform. I hit it very slightly above center and it cut the stone in half and wow I sat back and thought crap I have been doing it wrong for three years. See I do a fine job up to a point and then I can't reduce the stone anymore. I never could figure out why but now I know why. I was trying too hard and being much to careful.  It is so much easier than I thought. I wrote many post about platform preparation and break flakes and so on and so on....well it is so much easier.

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