Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Tower on October 24, 2013, 11:03:59 am
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I don't get the chance to Knap much noviculite. I've found this piece in the bottom of a bucket I hadn't touched in a long time. The white knapped like butter, the black was a lil tougher. I wish it's base was a little thinner, but I like the colors. My brother has informed me that I've been making too much of this style lately & I need to switch it up a lil. Tower (http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y506/Dontower/B86C51B1-6F23-4F86-BE25-DCAD590078C0-582-00000053DB50792C_zps71fc0f36.jpg)
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y506/Dontower/4FF2B394-9DB4-4917-8169-3508741FE326-582-00000053EA6D71EC_zps95c0157e.jpg)
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y506/Dontower/E1FC558A-16DA-4780-8707-420EF56F0079-582-00000053F514CF7A_zpsf0f3e8dc.jpg)
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Cool colors, Big brother or younger? Makes a difference. :)
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He's younger.
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I like that particular type of novaculite. Some of the black won't knap at all because it is full of fractures but when it is mixed with the white, it's all OK. The black from Rick Parker's quarry in Magnet Cove works just fine.
Anyway, you can't make too many of a particular point style. You have to remember that American Indians and the early cultures might have made just a couple of styles of points their whole life and nothing else but some utilitarian tools. Only modern knappers make lots of styles. If you stick to one, you become very efficient and very skilled at that particular point style. That's not to say that knappers shouldn't play around with other styles, but maybe we should have a specialty point we knap very, very well like you do the Cahokia. Good work and very nice point.
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We all have our favorite style.Me I love coral newnans but every time I start knapping flint ridge it turns out to be a dovetail ,another favorite.I think we subconsciously start shaping the rock to a known point type unless the rock dictates differently. Unless I start out to purposely knapp a set point type I'll be making newnans and dovetails and liking them,just my two cents. I'll look at every Cahokia point you make because you do an outstanding job on them.
Roger
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I like that one! Shore is purty!
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What Bonepile said.......
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Nice looking point.
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I agree, love the color fade!
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That captures my vote for point of the year. The colors knock me out.
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Beautiful color transition on that one. Nice point
Knapper
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That is a nice contrasty rock there Mr Don. It don't matter what you make they all turn out great. Knap on :).
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A real nice point.
Majuba Tom
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Another OUTSTANDING point Tower. a deer killer for sure.
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Don, those are nice colors. Now add some red to it from a hill country deer and it will be perfect.
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Beautiful, I like the slight curve of the edges, too.
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As usual very nice! As for your Brother.......give him some tools, and some rock, and tell him to go for it. ;) Like Bone pile said, we all have our own personal favorites. And like Knapper said, the NA's had their own style, and that was what they made. if it worked, they kept it.
As for the Cahokia, is there a reason for the notch in the base, other than looks? Seems to me it would weaken it, as it gives it a third spot to crack or break. As for my favorite style? which ever particular point I can make that looks half way decent, that is my style for now, till I can make a major improvement in my skills. But really nice point there. 8) Again as usual. ;)
Wayne
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Dang It Sir!
That is a Sweet Point!!!
I'm really liking the Straight Triangle points these days...
:)
-gus