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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: DanaM on June 28, 2009, 07:49:37 pm

Title: Purple points
Post by: DanaM on June 28, 2009, 07:49:37 pm

Chipped these out today from that chunk of 17th century iron smelting slag I found. I was
hoping to get a big blade but the first good hit broke it into three pieces :'( Had some freeze fractures, bubbles, and junk in it.
You can see in the big triangular point a hole that goes almost all the way through, ifin I could have gotten another flake or two it would have
been clean through but I wussied out :o The little stemmed was a corner notch until I popped the ear off :( Its works like obsidian but I've never seen
purple obsidian :)

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Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: sailordad on June 28, 2009, 08:23:48 pm

 :o DAMN BOY  :o

thats some purty slag,nice points Dana

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: cowboy on June 28, 2009, 08:28:34 pm

Now that's cool Dana! I ripped off some big blobs of slag like that from a glass recycler years ago. Now I know what your talking about :). Those are some nice points..

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: FlintWalker on June 28, 2009, 09:34:45 pm

Them look deadly Dana.  You done good spalling it out too.  I'd have got one, maybe two out of that chunk.

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: Timo on June 28, 2009, 10:38:58 pm

Cool stuff Dana! Nice points.

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: Pappy on June 29, 2009, 07:48:09 am

Nice points Dana.Very pretty work. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: Jaeger on June 29, 2009, 08:24:52 am

nice work ,I tried some of that and it came off in layers like a cabbage or onion.lol

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: Bone pile on June 29, 2009, 08:28:03 am

Cool points Dana,to bad the sun wasn't out,still nice looking material.Your gettin'rather good at this.
Bone pile

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: DanaM on June 29, 2009, 09:57:37 am

Shannon thanks for the vote of confidence but I didn't spall it, it broke in 3 when I whacked it :D

Jaeger this isn't glass slag its from the process of making pig iron back in the 1800's :)

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: J. DEMPLER on June 29, 2009, 10:04:33 am

Good job DanaM!! Beautiful points!

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: xin on June 29, 2009, 01:00:56 pm

DanaM, nice work , very pretty points.  Lets see some more of  this stuff.  thanks for sharing!!

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: GregB on June 29, 2009, 01:44:43 pm

Those look really good Dana! :)

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: Jaeger on June 29, 2009, 03:16:04 pm

most of it is green here it is on the side of the highway in the ditch  near an old privatly owned  furnace arouind here.

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: TRACY on June 29, 2009, 06:42:21 pm

cool looking points! Purple and red would look good too ;D You going to use them?

Tracy

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: jamie on June 29, 2009, 06:46:06 pm

real nice dana. the slag here sucks.

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: nugget on June 29, 2009, 08:15:30 pm

Would love to get my tools on some of that stuff. Nice work

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: DanaM on June 29, 2009, 08:21:33 pm

Jaeger where ya at ???, I've seen lots of the green stuff but its like foam, full of bubbles.
I wish I knew what part of the process creates the slag, this stuff was from a furnace that cast the iron in sand molds so I'm wondering if it was actually
melted sand as in glass, and I think alot of the foamy stuff is impurities of the molten iron. BTW nice points eh :)

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: Jaeger on June 29, 2009, 08:39:28 pm

Kentucky there are 3 furnaces near me but 2 are on the gov., I have a chunk of a darker color ,my green is bubbly too , most of what I found is real small peices , I am going to wait till they clean out the ditch and it rains again and maybe I can find some more it is only about a couple hundred yards from the ruins ,they must have dumped it in the road ,way back in the 1800s.

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: Hillbilly on June 29, 2009, 08:41:09 pm

Dana, you're getting good at this knapping thing, looks like you're starting to get it figured out. Nice looking points.

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: ricktrojanowski on June 30, 2009, 08:58:21 pm

Nice points Dana, but I'm even more impressed with the detail in that phone,  NOW that is some wild chippin. ;D

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: madcrow on July 02, 2009, 02:18:45 am

Dana and Jaeger, those are some sweet points.  I hope my wife don't see the purple points or she will have me out on a glass hunt.  Great job. 

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: natty on July 04, 2009, 01:06:19 pm

nice work!, you ever tried stained glass

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: DanaM on July 04, 2009, 02:18:14 pm

Can't say that I have natty, wonder ifin it would be thick enough ???

Title: Re: Purple points
Post by: redwasp on July 05, 2009, 09:12:13 pm

very nice yooperite eh.... purty points dana.