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Getting good at making gravel

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Allyn T:
I just started trying it, it def has potential but I think it's like anything else use it when you should and don't rely on it completely. A lot of the knappers I talk to use whatever they are most comfortable with.

Buckskinner:
I got my best point yet this afternoon.  It's still too thick and has some symmetry issues, but pretty happy that I didn't break it!  I primarily used indirect percussion on it and was able to drive much bigger flakes off throughout the process than other pressure or billet strikes.   Might be my go-to method, we will see. 

Ordered some more stock as well, wish there was a source around here.  I will take the ranger through the fields after they are plowed and see if I can find some workable material.

bjrogg:
I can see improvement.

It’s really hard for us farm boys to buy rock.

Dacite is pretty nice stuff to work.

I did like gut. I knapped anything I could. TV glass, wine bottle bottoms. I got some white glass counter top that really worked nice.

I have done a little local stuff I’ve found in our fields, but most of that stuff is pretty poor quality

Bjrogg

M2A:
Lookin good Buckskinner. 

I have never had luck finding good local stuff in fields. Always has freeze cracks through it, but I'm sure Ill spend some time looking this year again. I would second the glass bottle bottoms tho.
Mike   

Allyn T:
Creek beds and fresh construction are the best for finding material. I prefer residential construction when they dig foundations.

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