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Hunting Arrow Point Selection
D. Tiller:
Try the bipolar method by setting up a nipple on each end and putting one end against a peice of antler or bone and smacking the other nipple at a slight angle. Man, the flake comes right off and looks like the originals!!!! Try it, you might like it. Besides seeing that flake fly six feet across the room is prety cool too. If ya get the angles just right one of the ends could be sticking out of the far wall. ;)
Hillbilly:
Swoose Alexander used to flute Folsoms and Cumberlands by mashing them up in a big forked stick, then tapping the face with a billet-they said the flute flakes would fly several feet sometimes. Eddie, you still got that ground jade point, or is it still up at Cades?
mullet:
Steve, Cade has it. I can make some more. I some some tan and white jade that is harder than the green.
D. Tiller:
How do you grind those points Eddie? Must be nice stuff.
cowboy:
That certainly is some good stuff guys - all of it :). Hey Steve, I had that Swoose video and the flakes do fly - good time for safetly glasses.
I like the triangular Ishi type points too, also for the barb rule - and their easy to make ;D. Here's the one's I'll be hafting and hunting/trading with this year. The two greens ones are Rhyolite, the rest are Pederanales. Oops, the one on bottom left is from AL - something Ridgerunner led me to in a creek.
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