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jamie:
gonna do it pit style and cook up a bunch of stuff ive had layin around

leapingbare:
I live here in T.N and dover and buffalo river are both FT pain chert and from what i have herd you can not heat treat FT pain cherts and i have tryed to heat treat the buffalo river i found with little or no change in the rock.
 I have not tryed to heat dover but the best of luck to you.

Hillbilly:
Jesse, I've used a lot of heated Ft.Payne, and it's good stuff. I think the deal is that the light-colored Ft. Payne will heat-treat good, but the dark-colored stuff doesn't. I've got a couple spalls of Dover from Pappy's farm that we heated in a fire pit at Pat's last month, haven't tried chipping it yet, but I'm anxious to see how it turned out. It's the greenish stuff with the bullseye pattern.

Bill Skinner:
Dover varies a lot in texture, the chalky stuff was usually used for hoes and shovels.  The black stuff is the best and was preferred for points and blades.  It has natural oil in it and usually cannot be heat treated.  Buffalo River can be worked raw, but usually works better after heat treating.  The black Buffalo also has oil in it and usually cannot be heat treated either.

jamie:
i got a few points from it. i found i have to use a lot of percussion and get it as thin as possible before pressure flaking. also need a baseball bat and hit it like a red headed step child. ill post some pics this weekend

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