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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: mullet on December 24, 2010, 01:53:25 pm

Title: Texas Root Beer
Post by: mullet on December 24, 2010, 01:53:25 pm

I haven't had much time lately to do any chipping. But the sun was out and the weather nice this morning. My buddy Rick has a few hundred pounds of Texas Edwards that is transluscent brown. This stuff works like a dream. He gave me a couple of pieces to try and I sure do want some more. I bopped this one out this morning.

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: leapingbare on December 24, 2010, 02:35:09 pm

Nice.
thats some glassy rock

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: mullet on December 24, 2010, 02:48:00 pm

 Jesse, it is some of the best Root beer I have seen. And Rick has private access to it.

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: stickbender on December 24, 2010, 04:15:32 pm

    So......uh......dos rick like Miller?  Jack daniels? Crown Royal? Tullamore Dew? ;D ;D ;D
Just wondering...... ::) ::)
                                                                        Wayne

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: mullet on December 24, 2010, 05:00:57 pm

 Nope! Doesn't drink. :)

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: piper on December 24, 2010, 06:44:20 pm

Eddie ....Thats nice all away round.....Good job...Thanks for the pic's..................Curt

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: jamie on December 24, 2010, 07:02:16 pm

nice work ed. loves that rootbeer

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: Sparrow on December 24, 2010, 07:09:48 pm

Thats a Pretty point ! Yep; That stuff is dream rock.
 Jim Minter sent me some of that, 4 or 5 years ago. I carry a small biface of it around in my pocket to keep myself reminded I am a flintknapper ,by God. (The rest is hoarded away from human eyes). My best hunting heads are made of it. Plenty tough and yes ,it works like a dream.   Nice !  '  Frank

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: Sparrow on December 24, 2010, 07:19:04 pm

Hey , Whats that plant the points setting on ? Collard ?  '  Frank

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: arappaho on December 24, 2010, 11:39:54 pm

Looks like a dang kolrobi! :)

Sweet point and material! I like the way you thinned the base.
If that stuff was a little darker I'd call it Knife River.
Thanks for the pics.
Joe

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: mullet on December 25, 2010, 12:23:52 am

 Thanks guys, I hope gets back soon. :)

Frank, you guessed right, it's collards, right next to the Bell Pepper, mustard greens and cabbage.

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: cracker on December 25, 2010, 08:56:54 am

Good lookin point Eddie took some good material and good skills to bring it out.Ron

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: mullet on December 25, 2010, 02:52:32 pm

 Thank you , Ronnie.

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: Bone pile on December 25, 2010, 03:12:41 pm

Slick looking point ,may have to make a rock stop next week
Bone pile

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: mullet on December 25, 2010, 11:15:17 pm

 Roger, I know where part of the pile is, but I told Rick I'd wait till he got back. ;)

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: stickbender on December 26, 2010, 04:05:43 am

     Very nice, and beautiful rock!  So what is his vice, not that I would attempt to use it to my advantage for rock......or anything like that...... ::)  Good looking collards too.  I love em, mustard even more! ;)

                                                                        Wayne

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: AncientArcher76 on December 26, 2010, 03:13:06 pm

Nice I like the rootbeer too!


Russ

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: brian melton on December 27, 2010, 02:10:21 pm

Nice Eddie!!! ;D Got some of that wa. agate that looks the same.......think you would like it.... ;)

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: JackCrafty on December 28, 2010, 04:59:51 pm

Very nice!  Looks VERY sharp.  I got some of that rock too...can never have too much of it.

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: jcinpc on December 30, 2010, 09:33:55 pm

oh eddie , quit teasing these guys, I know where all of his stash is , in 2 different states.lol Rick lives behind me...hahahahahaha

I dont knap but if I did I sure would love to knap this

(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g228/jcinpc/coralheads/DSC03781.jpg)
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g228/jcinpc/coralheads/DSC03780.jpg)

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: mullet on December 30, 2010, 10:33:42 pm

 :o :o :D  That look's like the same as mine.  ;D

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: cowboy on December 30, 2010, 10:56:28 pm

Thats a good one Eddie and that stuff is hard to come by, at least the places i've been :).

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: Pappy on January 05, 2011, 08:37:15 am

Sweet Eddie,that's a beauty. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: Texas Root Beer
Post by: mullet on January 05, 2011, 08:38:51 am

Thanks, Pappy.