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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: turtle on October 04, 2012, 03:28:10 pm

Title: upper mercer
Post by: turtle on October 04, 2012, 03:28:10 pm

Ive been playing with some upper mercer i got up at flint ridge. Quality seems to change quite bit throughout each piece i pick up. Here are the ones that have survived so far.
(http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u437/stevenbennett2/points/20121004_132338.jpg)
(http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u437/stevenbennett2/points/20121004_132317.jpg)

Title: Re: upper mercer
Post by: Tower on October 04, 2012, 03:31:07 pm

I'm not familiar with that material, but looks like you made some nice points with it. Haft-em up & let-em fly.

Title: Re: upper mercer
Post by: ojibwatbowyer on October 04, 2012, 03:33:32 pm

Awesome points  :)

Title: Re: upper mercer
Post by: Bone pile on October 05, 2012, 08:04:11 am

Some of that stuff is crappy and some is good material.Did you get it out of a trailer? he's there every year I have bought some nice stuff off of him .You just have to go through it all he lets you take a hit so you can see the grade.I made a killer clovis out of it lat year.Your points look great keep up the good work.
Bone pile

Title: Re: upper mercer
Post by: turtle on October 05, 2012, 09:27:42 am

Yeah i got it out of the trailer. All of it i got has some good material in it but some of it has one end real good with thin cortex and the cortex on other end is over an inch thick. If i get any more from him i will remember to check it out better.

Title: Re: upper mercer
Post by: JackCrafty on October 05, 2012, 02:02:29 pm

 8)

Title: Re: upper mercer
Post by: Outbackbob48 on October 05, 2012, 06:27:40 pm

I also got a few pcs. out of the trailer and ended up with quite a variety in material. Some of it was really tuff for me ,need more experience in tuff stuff. Later Bob

Title: Re: upper mercer
Post by: Josh B on October 07, 2012, 11:26:54 am

I reckon them oughtta work!  If I had been one week later heading out that way, I could have attended that event.  Oh well, maybe next year. Josh