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Stone ID and a couple of points and blades...Thanks JC!
ssrhythm:
I’m going to try to post some pics and hopefully they won’t get all re-sized to the carnival-mirror look.
I found some surface chert nodules near my home, but freeze cracking put a hurting on them. The first two pics are of chert that my landlord left behind...she’s a rock hound, and she left stuff all over the yard. Anyhoo, the purple/white with black snowflake/flecks is absolutely nuts premium awesomeness...but it was a big square/cube and had Lots of cracks. I managed a few decent spallscc BBC and a lot of smallish flakes. I’ve knapped it once, and the little shark-looking knife was the result. It’s raw, and it knapps flawlessly. I am just figuring this stuff out, yet I produced that blade. I don’t want to really ask the landlord where it came from, because then I’d have to tell her I bashed her sample into a lot of smaller pieces. I’ve never seen anyone knapping it on YouTube, so I’m hopeful someone on here can positively iD it and tell me where I can go find or buy a truckload.
The second knife pic is a tiny, scalpel sized blade I knapped from a small chunk of the second stuff I found in the yard. Then there are pics of both types of stone. The second is multi-colored with what looks to be iron/rust in it. It’s translucent when thinned, is granular, yet is super-incredibly sharp when it’s fractured and worked. I spalled out one 12” x 12” Boulder of the stuff after realizing it fractured well. I’d have never thought the rock was worth a flip, but It knapps as well as the purple/white chert, despite it being completely different. Neither are heat treated.
Much thanks to Jack Crafty, as studying his vids when it was too cold to pee outside really helped me figure some things out once I started chipping again. JC...pm me your address, and I’ll send you a a couple of pieces of each of these rocks and let you see what you think.
Thanks for your efforts to ID this stuff in advance.
ssrhythm:
I’ll try to post other pics once I’ve logged off and given this rest...there has to be a better way to post pics on a website! Arrgh!
ssrhythm:
Try this...
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And the rusty, granular, translucent stuff...
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Other stuff
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