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rock collecting Saturday...

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paulc:
Spent about 8 or 9 hrs total driving around east GA looking for chert using a research paper from the 60's as my "map".  Was not very productive but I did get to see some cool stuff and a part of the state I rarely spend any time in.  Gonna keep looking of course but I will need to do some more work ahead of time and maybe I'll do more collecting and less looking.  Maybe 9 pcs of chert that a better knapper could get a point out of-the rest of what I found was almost chalk like layers and layers of poorly glued sand.  All in all a pretty neat day as long as collecting chert/flint wasn't the main objective of the day :-)

Paul

bjrogg:
Looks like a couple possibilities in that last picture
Bjrogg

paulc:
It's all I can do to NOT skip out on work and try and knock a point out....P

mullet:
it would probably work better heat treated. Where are you at in Ga?

paulc:
Islands outside of Savannah...I did put the stone through the turkey roaster over night at 200 to drive out moisture w/out popping any of it, then on Sunday I worked the heat up to 450 by maybe 8pm. Left it at 450 maybe 2 hrs before unplugging it to cool overnight.

Should I try to get it hotter?

Paul

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