Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: mullet on July 30, 2010, 04:13:34 pm
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I had a lot of spalls and preforms I need to heat treat. I got off work early today so I thought this would be a good time to fire it up. I'm going to walk through it with pictures, step by step. The pictures are pretty self explanatory.
pic1 spalls and preforms layed out and sorted by size
pic2 spalls covered with 2" of silica sand
pic3 2, 20# bags of Publix charcoal and qt of Publix lighter
pic4 charcoal piled
pic5 Charcoal, Hot!..... and we'll check it tomorrow and see if it's done ;D
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Thats too cool Eddie! Reminds me of me back in the day ;D. Only difference is mine was all mesquite flavored....
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Ha, ha Paul. Mesquites on the grill at the other end of the yard smoking a Boston Butt. :)
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LOL as long as its not like that comercial where the guy is BBQing with dog food...Let me know how that works I have used the old oven I also want to try the gas grill but Im thinking leaving it overnight to slowly cool would be better, Curtschert is sending me a crap load of raw stone might give it a go OH and Eddie PM me an ADDY if u want a few pieces of that ;) ;) ;) I am going back to my little stream tomorrow ;D ;D ;D ;D
Russell
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Pretty cool Eddie. I can't wait to see the results....will this strategy work with all types or only certain kinds?
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Russel, yea sure, I'd like to try it. I'll send you a PM.
Jeff, it will help a lot with that coral I sent you or Cowboy's Perdanales, or chert.
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Bitch at me about a little wood.... ::)
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gonna do the same thing this monday. when i work on the wigwams i always cook a batch up.
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Wanted to share kinda a funny story...I told the guys at my job, well they asked me what I was doing when I get home and I told them I was going home to cook up a batch of rock..well ur mind can only wonder what they were thinking...I got to eat lunch by myself and later on I explained to them what I was really doing and showed them Eddies pictures...I think they think Im more cray for cooking ROCK... ::) ::) I have to be one unlucky person at times...LOL
Russ
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Russel, they thought the same thing at the Grocery store when I told them what I waqs really cooking. ;D It's been raining, so I'll uncover it all tomorrow.
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eddie will that work for coastal
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As most know there is not much to knap in Michigan. A friend found an indian site and picked up some green colored rock and gave it to me. he said the stuff was all over the place. I am a new knapper and know very little about what is good or bad. This rock is very grainy. I bought an electric roaster at a yard sale to use to try and cook rock. I decided to get some Lake Michigan sand and use the cooker placing one peice of the green rock in the cooker along with some Pedernales. That green rock cooked up real nice and knaps real easy.
The roaster goes to 450 and I left the rock in for 48 hrs and left the lid on to slowly cool down on its own.
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Ken, It really helps out that grainy Coastal Plains and brings out some nice color also. JEB I use a toaster oven for smaller pieces.
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Here's what it looked like when I dug it up.Only a couple of pieces of coral and Perd's blew up the rest came out with some nice color.
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wow that stuffs purty
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That looks goood! I hope this box I got in the mail today turns out with some color like that.
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The stuff with the white cortex will have the most color. That's land find. The other, light blue, look's like it's from the Alafia river where Jesse and I went. It has nice pollups. That piece in the top left hand corner, about 11 o'clock looks like ledge or St. Marks Pin-head. Don't heat it. It is already the best.
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eddie this is one i did today out of a piece of flint laying in my horse pasture. im positive its coastal and i think it might have been heat treated by NA's it worked easy.not much color but lots easier than raw coastal ive found
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Eddie, John said that the stuff with the white cortex was Pasco Co. ???
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Yea, Pasco county would have been my guess, too. The pictures we posted of JC's yard was mostly Pasco county. Ken, Piper heat treats a lot of that Coastal and it flakes real good. I had some in this bach, too.
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if its fired and got some red and white then its pasco. I had a site that produced coral raw with orange and yellows in it, when cooked orange turns red and yellow turns orange.
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That's some good lookin rocks guys! I'm starting to salivate ;D.
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Nice looking rock boys...Edd I'll shoot u a pic of the box Im sending u ...only thing about NY stuff dont heat it unless u have insurance...MUAhahahahahaha! Seriously cant heat any of it that I know of... I'll get back to u soon!
Russ
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Thanks, Russel, I know about throwing that stuff in a fire.
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cool pics guys, i have a load cooking now to. just to damn hot to do anything!
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Hope y'all don't mind me bringing this back up to the top, but I've got some Missouri Chert that I've been knapping at for some time now. I just can't get it to flake like I want it to, so I'm thinkin' I'll give this a try, and Alergic Hobbit gave me this link........Thanks Man!
I've got a great place to do this and a big kettle to do it in, but I'm gonna do it Southeast Redneck Style if ya don't mind. ;D
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SEMO, Cooking most chert like I did or around 400-450 dgs in a roaster really helps it alot, unless it is concrete in disguise.
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