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Finding rock is confusing
MulchMaker:
GlisGlis very nice point! Looks better than my local points (2) I'll post them after my data roles over, getting low. Glass is a great teacher, but not the only teacher. I think Mrs. Glass has some more to teach befor I move on to Mrs. Chert.
Bjrogg I bought some noveculite and a small amount of dacite and obsidian when I got my tools a few years ago, it taught me a lot and I got a few points out of it. I'm not totally opposed to buying rock but I think I'm gonna wait a bit and run through the bottle glass (I have a ton) by then the stone tool show at Letchworth in august will be here and maybe I'll pick some up there..
thanks guys
JEB:
Like OutBack said, try and get to Letchworth. Wife and I went there last summer for the first time and it was a great event. There were a handful of vendors there to buy rock from. Prices are the same you just save on postage costs when you buy at a knap in and get to pick out your rock. Lethworth has a big top tent for knappers and there is almost always a pile of rock tossed on the knapping tarp for knappers to have and work.
Also been to a few other knap ins, Flintrdge, Marshall and Fredricksburg. The same suppliers are at those events also.
Wife and I are in the S.W. right now and just got back from a rock run. It is a site that I found about 10 years ago that has a lot of different cherts . One is a Flintridge look a like and once cooked it knaps real nice. Keep looking, asking, viewing and reading and you will find your rock. Be careful with TV glass as that has some not so nice stuff in it.
MulchMaker:
Thanks for the advise JEB on letchworth. Free rock to work under a tent sounds nice. At any rate I'm going for the show and it will be a good excuse to go to letchworth again. Anyone who has not seen the park and is within 10 hour driving distance should go camp the night in the "Grand Canyon of the east" if the stone tool show is going on you can throw that driving distance out the window. It is one of those places you should see in your life.
bjrogg:
Might have to put it on my bucket list. Just looked up the park on goggle earth and looks like my kind of place. When is the knap in?
Bjrogg
turbo:
--- Quote from: bjrogg on February 05, 2017, 07:08:00 am ---Might have to put it on my bucket list. Just looked up the park on goggle earth and looks like my kind of place. When is the knap in?
Bjrogg
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They have a knap-in for every season, the fall being the largest. Just Google 'letchworth knap in' and you'll find the dates.
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