Primitive Archer

Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => ABO => Topic started by: iowabow on November 18, 2015, 06:03:13 am

Title: finally a blade
Post by: iowabow on November 18, 2015, 06:03:13 am

After breaking a couple preforms due to fossils and mean rock...... a blade!

Title: Re: finally a blade
Post by: Tom W on November 18, 2015, 07:00:37 am

Looks like the complete package, very nice.

Title: Re: finally a blade
Post by: nclonghunter on November 18, 2015, 07:59:45 am

I like! That's pretty cool to harvest, cook and shape into a working point/blade with all ABO techniques.

Title: Re: finally a blade
Post by: Stringman on November 18, 2015, 08:18:51 am

Great job keeping that together! Looks like nice flake scars too!

Title: Re: finally a blade
Post by: iowabow on November 18, 2015, 08:25:18 am

Quote from: nclonghunter on November 18, 2015, 07:59:45 am

I like! That's pretty cool to harvest, cook and shape into a working point/blade with all ABO techniques.

Thank you for that comment. It is rewarding and also very humbling as well. After finding a stone,  bifacing it, cooking it, coring it to a close preform and then breaking it can just make you sick. I think this is because of the connection you develop to the material. This process makes me think about how important Native people must have felt about an area they lived and the connection they must have felt to nature. Here is one that I broke. I still am upset about the loss.

Title: Re: finally a blade
Post by: Josh B on November 18, 2015, 09:17:37 pm

Cool!  How long is that?  Josh

Title: Re: finally a blade
Post by: iowabow on November 18, 2015, 09:49:14 pm

Josh it is 6 1/4 inches and the largest ABO point I have made. I am going to try many more if I can fire the pit a couple more times before the ground freezes.

Title: Re: finally a blade
Post by: Josh B on November 18, 2015, 10:03:39 pm

Nice!  I'm headed to Texas tomorrow.  Hopefully I can pick up some nice rock again.  Some bigger stuff would be nice so I could try for a nice blade like that.  Josh

Title: Re: finally a blade
Post by: iowabow on November 18, 2015, 10:14:06 pm

Hey grab me one and we can trade rock!

Title: Re: finally a blade
Post by: 1442 on November 23, 2015, 12:10:12 pm

Nice blade man!!
Points are nice but blades are what drives me.