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One sided gravel
bjrogg:
Very impressive 1442. That looks like some very challenging stuff you wrangled those points out of.
Bjrogg
JEB:
Friends don't let friends knap landscape rock, lol. BJ that rock is in front of every restaurant in San Antonio. I would pick one up and Chris would make me put it back. Kudos to 1442 for making nice points and blades out of that stuff.
1442:
Thanks
The texture looks horrible in pictures but these pieces flake pretty good once you get below the cracks.
I'm fixin to go out and knap a little bit and I will do something other than gravel for a change, maybe.
Tower:
You’ve still got it. I have one of your trade points. I turned it sideways once & it disappeared .
Love seeing what you can do too that bull gravel.
1442:
Thanks a lot y'all. This is having fun to me, and stopping to take pictures really helps me to knap better than if I just sit down and knap too fast.
Tower,
I think you are referring to a brownish colored triangle shaped blade that I just kept working on with indirect percussion on a 3/8" copper rod until there just wasn't much left of it. I expected it to break with every hit towards the end but it never did.
I even videoed the making of that blade from start to finish and was gonna put it on you tube but have held off until I learn to edit out a lot of boring time spent beveling the edges and stuff. The video is like at least an hour and a half and I did a lot of talking about what I was doing too that sounds not to good.
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