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Paleo toothpic.

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cowboy:
Was working on a blade from a big chunk of Edwards Plateau chert. The thing kept steppin and stackin on me so I wound up with this big toothpic ;D. Looking through my Overstreet arrow head book, it most closely resembles a Haskett which is late Paleo and found mostly in the NW. Oh, it's almost nine inches long - longest anything I've ever knapped and kept in one peice :).

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david w.:
Thats realy cool

leapingbare:
thats cool man. someone told me once "if you can knapp a 8'' blade you can knapp a 14'' blade." so go bigger and suport it the same. Hard part is getting a larg enuff pice of rock.

JackCrafty:
wow :o

Now all you need is a few more and you can make a wind chime.  ;D >:D

(kidding, of course...awesome job)

Keenan:
 Very nice Paul. I was elk hunting several years back just outsdide of Bend and was waiting for a friend and his father to catch up to me. I took a few practice shots and poked around in the same spot for about ten minutes. When they got to me I turned and started down the skid trail and my friends father said  " well I'll be" as he reached down and picked up a thirteen inch hasket from where I had just been standing.  unbroken excellent shape Type 2 grade 10 hasket  My jaw dropped open. Tears welled up in his eyes as the 70+ yr old man said  "I've looked all my life and never found an arrowhead".   I informed him that it wasn't an arrowhead and that it was in the neighborhood of 12-15,000 years old and extreamly rare to find one of that quallity and size.
 Same shape as the one in the upper left conner.

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