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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: bjrogg on May 04, 2018, 08:42:36 am

Title: Rainy nights good for knapping
Post by: bjrogg on May 04, 2018, 08:42:36 am

Had a good week farming working long days to get the sugarbeets planted before the rain. I always sleep good when it rains at night. Especially when I relax and knap first.
Dacite
Bjrogg

Title: Re: Rainy nights good for knapping
Post by: paulc on May 04, 2018, 09:57:28 am

looks great.  P

Title: Re: Rainy nights good for knapping
Post by: mullet on May 04, 2018, 01:54:44 pm

Looks good, Brian. That rock looks pretty shiny and black for Dacite. most of what I have is dull and gray.

Title: Re: Rainy nights good for knapping
Post by: bjrogg on May 04, 2018, 02:12:06 pm

Thanks Paul
Thanks Eddie. I'm pretty sure it Dacite. It flakes nice, almost like cheating. Feels a little light. I guess if it's not dacite I was misinformed. All the dacite I ever worked was black as coal and shinny.
Bjrogg

Title: Re: Rainy nights good for knapping
Post by: mullet on May 04, 2018, 08:36:47 pm

I'll post a picture of a big piece I have tomorrow. I've never seen shiny Dacite, it is usually dull and harder than Obsidian.

Title: Re: Rainy nights good for knapping
Post by: Hawkdancer on May 04, 2018, 11:54:15 pm

Nice point!  Good rain, too!  We got 2" here finally!  Locally, we are ahead of the drought curve - for a while.  Got a bunch of snow up higher to help out.
Eddie, I need to pick your brain about older Bear bows, fg bows and turkey calls - will send a pm.
 Hawkdancer

Title: Re: Rainy nights good for knapping
Post by: bjrogg on May 05, 2018, 04:57:00 am

Thanks Jerry
Thanks Eddie, maybe I've been misinformed. This is shinny black and flakes easily. I'm quite sure it's not as hard as most of the Obsidian I've ever worked. It's noticeably lighter in weight to. I've gotten this same material from three different sources. The reason I believe it's dacite is because when I first got some it was from my brother and he got it online from knapping supply company and that's what they called it. I got some from Frank at Marshall and he called it "stays wet" because it looks so shinny wet. Of course that means nothing as to its real ID. I think this is actually a piece that jeb gifted me.
Bjrogg

Title: Re: Rainy nights good for knapping
Post by: bowmo on May 05, 2018, 09:08:46 am

Nice man! Good size to that one.

Title: Re: Rainy nights good for knapping
Post by: Zuma on May 05, 2018, 09:16:00 am

BJ as we say when fishin You caught it, you can name it. )F(
Actually it looks a lot like my Mexican Green. :KN
It would make a nice atatl point. Like the Aztecs used.
Zuma

Title: Re: Rainy nights good for knapping
Post by: bjrogg on May 05, 2018, 11:55:44 am

Thanks bowmo. Still have a lot to learn yet but at least I can make something that's thin, fairly sharp and pointy.

Thanks Zuma. I'm actually thinking I might make another atlatl and dart. I kinda miss my old one
Bjrogg