Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Josh B on March 22, 2012, 02:39:55 am
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Leave it in the ground for a few million years of course. This is from a small piece of petrified wood that I picked up in Powell WY last week. I sure wish I had found more of it so I could try it heat treated . Pretty tough when its raw. Josh
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Thats pretty nice!!
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i've knapped quite a bit of it Josh, throw it in the turkey roaster on hi just like jasper, chips like butter, nice point too, Bub
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8) nice point Josh, dpgratz
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My Dad brought me some petrified wood a couple years ago and I could not even break it, Last week I was at his house and found it and still had a hard time.. Does it matter what kind of wood it was? I think the stuff he gave me was a type of pine!
Micah
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What were you doing in Powell? That's close to home. Hawk and Stacey Huston's boy, Josiah, gos to school there and my brother in law lives there. There is a place in the county there that sells rocks and they have about any kind of agate and jasper. As far as the wood goes, it is just like agate and usually cooks around 350/400 degrees. A/Ho Joe
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Thanks Jimbob and Bowtarist
Thanks for the info Bubby! If I find some more, I will definitely try that.
Maddog , I don't know on that. I believe and some one correct me if I'm wrong, that there is no actual wood left in petrified wood. If memory serves me correct and it rarely does, petrified wood is minerals that have slowly replaced the wood as the wood eventually decomposed over many millennia . If that is correct, then it would have more to do with silica content and composition of the minerals that replaced the wood than it would the species.
Wolf Watcher, I hauled a load of fertilizer to Powell. I remember seeing a rock vendor along the way, but I can't remember if it was at grey bull or meeteetse. I would have stopped if I would of had time. Josh
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Yep, needs heat in most cases.
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josh some of it has turned to an agate and is hard and need's heat, and i just got some a week or two ago that is opalwood, and opal is soft , delicate and need's no heat and is easy to flake, Bub
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I had some once that I heated in the oven at 450. It was when I first started 20 years ago so it ended up little rocks. I'd like to trade for some if anyone wants to get rid of any. PM me I'll likely forget so I might not get back here in a while.
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Next time I'm in the southwest, I will pick some up. Thanks again Bubby. Josh