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Citronelle chert hunting points?
JEB:
What Outback said. I thin my bases first.
1442:
I actually used the word thin, but I meant more like the profile and contours.
I don't think a point needs to be actually thin to work well.
Just light edge work with an ishi stick can make a good sharp edge. The flakes don't have to travel very far really to sharpen a edge unless the edge is thick, then they have to travel farther because they have to be thicker to remove more thickness.
That rock should pressure flake with a ishi stick real well. The length of flakes able to be taken are dependent upon the contours and it would be easy to have a flake overshoot and take a plug out of the far side of that point if it had a smooth convexity to travel across.
try grinding a bit more during reduction and see if that don't help your flakes feather out better and eliminate some of the step fractures.
Space your reduction flakes out farther apart and make sure your platform is below center.
Wolfmanjack:
My rock bashing has continued and these are my best so far. I think there may be a couple of potential deer killers in there. I’m working on my edge sharpening with some flakes. Also some of these will be refined some more. The two at the bottom are points I found in the same creek where I collected my citronelle from. Pretty crude wouldn’t you say? Wonder how refined most of the ancient points were?
1442:
Your doing good.
It's hard to tell for sure because I can't make out flake scars but it looks like yo have a lot of thickness and convexity very close to the edges and that would greatly reduce the penetration efficiency compared to more tapered knife like edges. Same thing with the tips. They need to feather down to a smooth needle sharp tip.
The artifacts you show in my opinion where most likely dart points or knives, and where much sharper when fresh with a totally different kind of edge sharpness than what you have on your points done with pressure.
It's hard for me to explain the edges understandably but I'll try.
The Indians took those edge flakes at or slightly above center so that the bulb actually cleaves off a portion of the edge creating slight concavities and a knife like edge similirar to a flakes edge which is sharp sharp.
I can't explain it.
If you will Pm me your address I'll send you a couple points to show you what I'm trying to say and I'll send you a piece of deer leather that you can poke some points through to test pokability. You'll be surprised with the results I bet.
Stick with it
Sasquatch:
Hey great job, considering only 6 weeks. Answer to your question is, No. your points aren’t quite “ethical” yet. Yes they would kill, but the life of the deer deserves more IMO. Work on thinning, and sharpness. Your pints look good from the top. But the thickness and edge is where they are lacking. Your doing great progress tho. Your stone looks like it could use a little more heat. FYI if you want to trade some raw Tx stone for some Citronelle, I might be intrested.
Also: I started with the same goal as you “to harvest a deer with stone and wood” it took me 7 years to do it. But I wounded many animals with dull points, lack of penitration, accuracy issues.
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