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Dolomite

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DanaM:
Pictures, but this crap is hard don't think its gonna work maybe for an axe.

D. Tiller:
One word Dana! HEAT! LOTS OF HEAT!

Hillbilly:
Looks like silicified limestone/dolomite. The better grades of it will knap, and you're right, wood is the best thing for it. It's really variable-one rock may knap good and the one lying next to it won't. The better stuff is good for large percussion pieces, but you're not going to get nice pressure-flaked arrowheads out of it unless you find some really highly silicified stuff like the Alibates stuff in Texas. I find some in Eastern TN that works pretty good. If you have limestone/dolomite, you probably have chert outcrops somewhere in the area.

DanaM:
I'm looking fer the chert Hillbilly I'm looking, of course I'm not sure what it looks like but I'm looking 8)

D. Tiller:
Just do the smack test Danna! Smack it with a hammer stone or billet and check the results. Just remember from the Classic some of the tough stuff really needs some heat! Burn baby BURN! (Can you tell I'm in my shop again!?!?)

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