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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: jamie on June 23, 2011, 07:29:59 pm

Title: rhyolite
Post by: jamie on June 23, 2011, 07:29:59 pm

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/coyotebow/knapping/010-6.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/coyotebow/knapping/011-7.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/coyotebow/knapping/013-9.jpg)

Title: Re: rhyolite
Post by: bryan irwin on June 23, 2011, 07:42:25 pm

nice looks like a killer.

Title: Re: rhyolite
Post by: nclonghunter on June 23, 2011, 09:19:35 pm

I like it, that looks good...

I may be a sick individual but the more I work the rhyolite beast the more I like it... >:D

Title: Re: rhyolite
Post by: jamie on June 23, 2011, 10:17:24 pm

i think i could get real used to using this stuff. important thing is to build convexity.

Title: Re: rhyolite
Post by: mullet on June 23, 2011, 10:48:12 pm

Good one! Is that the gray or the green? I've got a piece of that nasty gray I'm beating on. I smack it a while and then go back and do it again a few days later.

Title: Re: rhyolite
Post by: Timo on June 24, 2011, 12:33:53 am

nice looking piece Jamie. Good to see you getting some chippin time.

Title: Re: rhyolite
Post by: jonathan creason on June 24, 2011, 01:05:11 am

Holy crap, I can't believe you worked something that thin and purdy out of ryolite.  That point is awesome!

Title: Re: rhyolite
Post by: jamie on June 24, 2011, 06:19:46 am

thank you. ed this is bluish grey . its from massachusetts. definetly not pretty stuff. i got a nice chunk of the green last weekend . looking forward to trying out the rhyolite version of candy. =)

Title: Re: rhyolite
Post by: Tower on June 24, 2011, 09:52:16 am

Thats one of the nicest rhyolite points I've seen. Great job.

Title: Re: rhyolite
Post by: mullet on June 24, 2011, 10:59:54 am

"nice chunk of the green", tha's kinda an oxymoron, you think? ;)

Title: Re: rhyolite
Post by: AncientArcher76 on June 24, 2011, 03:40:42 pm

Nice point Jaimie now wheres my rhyolite!!!...LOL

Russ

Title: Re: rhyolite
Post by: Ncsnipe on June 24, 2011, 08:17:49 pm

Wow :o!!! That is a crazy great job on some aggravating material.

Title: Re: rhyolite
Post by: jamie on June 25, 2011, 05:14:43 pm

thanks again guys, appreciate the compliments.

eddie compared to this stuff the green is candy.  ;D

Title: Re: rhyolite
Post by: Hillbilly on June 26, 2011, 04:51:13 pm

Sweet! I just thought our rhyolite was tough until I tried some of that Mt. Kineo stuff from Maine......:)

Title: Re: rhyolite
Post by: JustinNC on June 27, 2011, 02:07:17 am

Good lookin stuff!

Title: Re: rhyolite
Post by: jamie on June 27, 2011, 07:19:03 am

steve this stuff is from the same vein as kineo. from what im told there is supposed to be a red vein of this stuff running through mass somewhere. time to do some research. hell id like to just get more of this stuff.