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paulc:
Worked this stone during my lunch break today-hammer stone only.  One side skinned actually pretty nicely but the second side seems to be mostly crappy cortext that refused to come off.  Now my edges are either on the good side of the stone-I don't want to remove more of that.  Or the edges are in the crumbly cortext that won't come off....help!  :-)

Paul

paulc:
couple more....thanks.

JackCrafty:
Heat treat it (if you haven't already) then remove the cortex side first.

Looks like you'll need to lose some width (to turn the edges toward the cortex side) before you remove the cortex flakes.

paulc:
Thanks Pat...being me of course I didn't wait for advice.  Instead I switched to copper and beat the heck out of the stone.  Got the cortext off and had a pretty good looking preform.  It was too thick probably so I kept wacking away until it was still too thick and now too narrow to do much with...  :-K  Some day I will learn when to stop!

I did put some of the better flakes into the cooker to see if that changes how it breaks....this is texas stone I got off of ebay.  Not sure how I feel about yet.  The price was right but so far it is beyond my abilities still.

Love your videos.

Paul

Parnell:
I'm noticing the debatage at your feet!  Looks like you've been breaking some rock!

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