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1442:
This was just a nice piece of gravel.
I had it going good and should have quit hitting it, but I took one more flake and caused a big step in the middle. I tried ever which way to get it off and used up more size than I should have, but the notches wound up getting rid of the step before one of them stalled out.

1442:
I didn't take pics of the step but here it is finished

sleek:
When you say, "Gravel" do you mean landscape rocks that you find around buildings, such as around the drive thru at fast food joints?

Russ:
got this from the flintknapping glossary of terms by JackCrafty

Gravel - Relatively small, rounded, nodules of knappable material that usually occur in river beds.  Most gravel is low-grade material but some can be very high grade and colorful.

bjrogg:
When I first started knapping I made lots of gravel. I think it's definition was slightly different though.  I ended up with small unknappable piece that got spread out in the driveway.lol.

Nice point 1442.

Bjrogg

PS I think that Russell's definition is correct. At least it's how 1442 was referring to it.

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