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where should i look for flint??? in Dallas

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cowboy:
Shooter, you probably found some pederanales. They use that stuff a lot in landscape projects and for drainage areas. If that's what it is - it will knap with some practice but is best if it's heat treated.

Shooter_G22:
yea cowboy,

    i think your right...  dont know anything about it but i been reading this and that hear and there and i read something about heat treating or somebody was asking aif they heat treated the rock someone made a point out of on a thread on here i think...  i didnt play close attn. to that thread cause i didnt have stone or knew what they were talking about but when i was trying to make a point out of one of the flakes i chiped of the stone it was really hard to get it to do what they do on the videos on youtube...  so i was thinking or the thought came back to me about the comment i read about heat treating...   when i was thinking "what am i doing wronge here"  it came to me and i was like OH maybe that heat treating is what it needs to be able to do that...

i dont know maybe its jsut harder than it looks.. but i cant get it to shape like the guy on the video or like yo guys on this board...

  how do i heat treat stone????


and i went to the lowes and got about a 1 1/2' of the thickest coper wire they had there and i cut a peice off a little over an inch and hammered down one side flate and put it in a handle for an exacto knife and tight it down to try and use it as a pressure flaker... but it didnt work all that great...
i need to really buy a video or dvd with all the tecniques of how to do this...
but i will learn soon enough i'm sure...

cowboy:
Shooter: buy the art of flintknapping by DC Waldorf. A very informative book that explains where to find flint, how to heat treat, and will get you started knapping. Think it's about fifteen bucks.

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