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1442:
Thanks
I took the knives, antler stands, some points, blades hooks and this necklace display to a gun show this past weekend where I was invited to set up on a table for free and try to sell them to raise money to go to the silver river knap in in Florida.
I didn't work out too well though. I didn't sell enough to get out of town good so I may have to resort to the ol cardboard sign on the street corner or something to get to Florida.
Nobody even seemed interested in a necklace at all and that's what I thought would sell the best. Also being it was a gun show people looking at guns had them pointed at me from every direction the whole time and I did not like that.

Here's the necklace display. It's built like a hide stretched in a frame with a large deer antler on each end to hold it up verticle

bjrogg:
Very Nice display 1442. Kinda interesting how you attached points to necklaces. You are a talented knapper. People just have no idea what it takes to make that stuff. They always ask me how do you do that you grind it? Or you melt it.
I guess it's true. Don't bring a knife to a gun fight. Or show. Steel one probably would sell.
Bjrogg

JEB:
Very nice looking display.  I know a guy that set up at a traditional archery shoot and couldn't give his necklaces away for $15.00 and this guy is a lights out knapper.  Yet I went to Flintridge and sold almost every stone knife I brought and I am a so so knapper. It is a crap shoot for sure.

Folks don't have a clue on how much work there is to making this stuff.

1442:
thanks for the kind words
It was an interesting experience. Some woman said EWWW! I don't like them teeth (leg bones), they creep me out.
I also had to listen about how people and dinosaurs where here at the same time and that wood don't take long to petrify because steel hammers have been found embedded in it and interesting stuff like that.

JEB:
Not sure where you are at but if close to Ohio, give the fall Flintridge knapin some thought. Rather inexpensive weekend, $20.00 camping and set up fee, more rock  to buy than you can haul home and some great flint knappers sitting around. And on Saturday you will sell a lot of stuff.

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