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one, two, three times I glued this one so far, NOW FOUR

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1442:
 broke this piece, glued it and just got started working it again, broke off the tip, then broke it near the first break. I glued that back and let it sit overnight, and worked it some more. I was just gonna use it for practice and see how far I could get with it so I thinned the ends pretty thin and lost a big corner off the base, but I had it worked to the point I was ready to span the glued areas. I took several pics of how the flakes traveled in the glued areas and I got some bbad hinges that I was able to clear from the other side, and stuff and I am amazed that the glue joints held it together through all of it. The bbad news is that when I snapped a pic of the last flake across the glue area I noticed the camera said "NO MEMORY CARD"
Dang!  :(
Oh well! I cleaned up the edges with pressure and went and fetched a memory card to get a pic before I put notches in it just in case. The notches are more for practice too and not right for a corner tang but I need practice with this type notch. The base notch went well but the other one had two cracks on the edge where it needed to be. one of the cracks took off the tang. It is glued now and I'll finish it once the glue has set awhile. 
This is more a post to show what glue can do and not how good I am at breaking stuff so keep that in mind and realize these breaks was accidently on purpose. I did throw in a pic of three I broke this week just for grins. I'm getting low on glue though. BTW I used gorilla brand super glue in this highly uncontrolled expearment. just in case y'all might want to break some of your nicer bifaces and try this out for yourselfs.

Here's first break glued

1442:
second break and glue and a couple more I musta dropped or sumpin :-[

1442:
Here it is when I was done except for notches, I only flaked over the glue on one side but it is thicker in that area and I'm gonna come back and try to get some flakes over that side too.
Right now the thickest spot is 0.16" or bout 5/32".

1442:
Then one notch done and one broke then glued

JW_Halverson:
Wait!

I thought you guys joked when you said you glued them back together.  Or at the most, glued them back together after they were finished.  Can you actually knap through/over a superglued piece of rock???

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