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clewis:
I had a chance to work some quartzite collected a few miles from the Sheguiandah site on Lake Huron this past summer. I think its quartzite but knaps fairly well but feels really grainy like poorly cooked Keokuk.

clewis:
Heres a few more pics of all the spalls I collected including a few abo preforms I started this morning but figured I finish them later. Thanks for looking.

Clewis

nclonghunter:
Very nice, I would like to work on some of that. It looks like a grainy Burlington. I am wondering what some heat treatment would do to it. If you have a good source that could be some good rock to have.

clewis:
Some of the stuff is awful but there some fine grained material which does take heat well and it really changed the look of the rock both in color and workability. The hafted point was heat treated and came out waxy but brittle, the lighter was hafted but shot it and was intending to re-sharpen it but never got around to it. I have a source for this material now after finding a nice cut in an old decommissioned logging road but no time to collect it when I'm out that way.

Zuma:
Nice find and knapping.
I think you have a good source.
 Beware of frost cracked surface stuff.
I don't think It's a Quartzite ???
Zuma

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