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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: 1442 on August 26, 2019, 01:47:20 am

Title: palm wood, pedernales and georgetown
Post by: 1442 on August 26, 2019, 01:47:20 am

hers a couple I made today
palm wood and pedernales

Title: Re: palm wood, pedernales and georgetown
Post by: 1442 on August 26, 2019, 01:51:58 am

here's the Georgetown.
unfortunately it lost a ear on the second flute.
One of the release flakes on the back side of the platform scooped off the whole back side of the platform and that made it so thin that the ear was kind of cut off.

Title: Re: palm wood, pedernales and georgetown
Post by: JEB on August 26, 2019, 04:45:51 am

Great work again. Really like working Palm wood. Getting tougher to find tho.

Title: Re: palm wood, pedernales and georgetown
Post by: bjrogg on August 26, 2019, 06:13:15 am

Once again beautiful work 1442.
That palm point looks deadly.
Bjrogg

Title: Re: palm wood, pedernales and georgetown
Post by: Parnell on August 26, 2019, 07:37:50 am

That palm point!

Title: Re: palm wood, pedernales and georgetown
Post by: mullet on August 26, 2019, 09:29:57 am

I have some palmwood and what I have is like working concrete. Guess it's not heat treated enough.

Title: Re: palm wood, pedernales and georgetown
Post by: Hawkdancer on August 26, 2019, 11:21:42 am

Very nice!  Don't believe I've seen the palm wood before.
Hawkdancer

Title: Re: palm wood, pedernales and georgetown
Post by: Zuma on August 26, 2019, 12:15:51 pm

Awesome

Title: Re: palm wood, pedernales and georgetown
Post by: Deerhunter21 on August 26, 2019, 01:15:12 pm

nice 1442! where did you get the petrified palm?

Title: Re: palm wood, pedernales and georgetown
Post by: 1442 on August 26, 2019, 07:01:58 pm

Thanks y'all
the palmwood was a small slab that was gifted to me recently.
This piece was kind of brittle, but I've had some that was really slick like working Georgetown.
I had a piece that was stunningly beautiful that I bought at an antique shop once and it was like super hard concrete and just wouldn't knap at all.
I still have a slab gifted by the same person who gave me this one that is awesome. It's rusty red with black dots and test flaked really good.

Title: Re: palm wood, pedernales and georgetown
Post by: Trapper Rob on August 26, 2019, 08:14:19 pm

Nice points