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Muskyman:
My wife had ordered me 5 lbs of mahogany obsidian for an early Christmas present that arrived yesterday. I got working on it this morning and got this out of first piece.. far from perfect but I’ll take it.

Muskyman:
Had a flake pretty good but broke it trying to notch it. Turned it into this.

YosemiteBen:
stop sooner!

bjrogg:
That’s how it’s done. Notching is another whole ballgame. You are improving.
Bjrogg.

Muskyman:
Thanks Ben & BJ. Just to be clear those are two different points. The bottom one was from a flake that was from the top piece. I figured I’d use it to practice pressure flaking. It had a step fracture in it that caused a chunk to fly off so I just tried to make it the same on both sides. Still need to get much better at thinning

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