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paulc:
Latest from the cooker...

bottom rock doesn't seem to even be flint as near as I can tell-but pretty neat looking. 

Left is def flint but no pattern to the breaks

Top rock seems to have a lot of promise-doubt anything too large but certainly a couple arrowheads. 

The point is about as good as it will get for that piece-first break from first cooking.  It is right at 1"wide so I could spare a tiny bit of width trying to thin it down but not sure it is worth it.  I put the parent rock back in the cooker last night so maybe more heat will allow me to get more out of what is left....Paul

paulc:
I have managed to slab a bit of my flint ridge stuff!  So for those of you that might be interested in it-you don't need an expensive proper rock saw.  This is my crappy refurbed saw from ebay with a $60 blade that says you have to use oil to cool it but water seems to have worked okay for today.  Of course the size of what you can cut is pretty limited but I think I can get arrowheads out of these...

Now to try and cook the slabs a bit to get some better flaking.

Paul

paulc:
so I changed my cooking process this weekend-put a load through the turkey roaster all night Friday and then shallow buried it and kept a med fire burning on it for about 8hrs Saturday.  I didn't get much/any pieces exploding and much of it has improved in it knapp-ability.  But this is still going to be some really tough stuff to work with.  I was approaching what could have been described as a preform with this piece before it came apart.  But I was beating on it like madman so not that surprising it broke.  Perhaps a little more heat would have helped this piece-really don't know.  Now I have a shot at getting two small points...the story of my knapping life :-)  This is such NEAT stone!!  And challenging!

Paul

paulc:
Another clunky preform from Nethers rock.  It will break if I hit it with all I have with a bopper but I can't do much with a pressure flaker.  Would cooking this for longer, or at higher temp cause it to flake better?

Thanks, Paul

bjrogg:
Paulc, I'm certainly no expert cook. It sure doesn't look overcooked to me though. Might try putting your preform in cooker to. Hoping you get something slick and colorful.
Bjrogg

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