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iowabow:
New possibilities

iowabow:
This is a comparison.

le0n:
Please, to explain, kind Sir ;)

nclonghunter:
The left one is cleaner and narrower notched....You have figured something out. Nice work

iowabow:
The big different here are the notches. I learned to make notches that worked well for hunting but not great for the narrow notches seen with the cahokia grave points. So for the last couple years I just figured that they must have used copper.
I came to this because every time I would try this the tool would get a couple flakes off and then the tool would break. So now I approached from a different mind set.
First I thinned the ulna for narrow notches and rounded the end.

This is where it gets interesting because if you keep notching the tool breaks.
Step one ...take notch
Step two...round the tool to remove small dint
Step three...take notch
Step four round the tool to remove small dint
And so no and so one....tool doesn't not break

This creates notches thin like copper.

The rounding only removes small amount of tip but is a very important process to prevent the tool from blowing up!!!
Simple only took 4 years to figure it out!

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