Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Tower on October 02, 2016, 09:48:01 am
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I was wondering if anyone would be interested in a BITH
A medium flat rate box of stone swap? It's been a few years since we have done it.
Would anyone be interested?
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Count me in.
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You know I love shipping my obsidian and dacite! I'm in for 2. Gotta make room for my trip next spring to the buttes.
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This is looking like a pretty short list.
The name drawings looking pretty simple
I'll leave it up another week before we swap
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So I would just fill a medium FR box --which is what, like 12 or 15 dollars full of rock and then someone would send me one too? I have obsidian. Mostly pretty lumpy, but definitely workable. would that qualify?
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I'd play, but I'm a little low on supply.
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Nothing wrong with a lil obsidian or dacite .
It's all about the trading of lithic materials
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Count me in then, but I need some advice on how to pack it so the obsidian doesn't beat itself to pieces before it arrives.
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Newspaper, and pray. ;)
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I'll give it a try. Count me in if its not too late.
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I am a newbie. What does PITH. stand for? Can I participate? I have heat treated small pedernales and some flint ridge heated in the turkey roaster. Probably some obsidian
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PITH stands for Point in the hat. It's a point swap we seem to do every spring.
Your more that welcome to join in on the BITH.
The more the merrier.
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i wish I had some rock that was worth a hoot, everything I have left looks like it has concrete mixed in it. Even I don't want to work it, but it may find its way into my junk pile.
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Don Ive been on the fence to join or not. Do we send a bunch of the same or a mixed lot? How does the crowd prefer? Should we wait and ask our recipient, or just send blind?
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I'm going to send a mixed lot of what I like to knap. Kind of a sample of Centeral Texas material . I'm ok with you asking your recipient. If it were me a big box of your Burlington would be just fine.
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I'd like to get in on this rock trade too.
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I'm going to send a mixed lot of what I like to knap. Kind of a sample of Centeral Texas material . I'm ok with you asking your recipient. If it were me a big box of your Burlington would be just fine.
Purty low on the Burlington right now, but I do have enough stuff to make a box. Count me in.
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I'm going to send a mixed lot of what I like to knap. Kind of a sample of Centeral Texas material . I'm ok with you asking your recipient. If it were me a big box of your Burlington would be just fine.
Me too, I don't have enough coral to fill a box without leaving me with none, and anyway you guys keep wasting it. :D ;)
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What does everyone think about ending the signup this Saturday the 15 at midnight?
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15th sounds perfect!
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Sounds good.
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Sounds good.
+1
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Hey count me in then!!! How big a box do we send?
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Medium Flat Rate.
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Great no problem with filling a MFR.
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Having to work today.
I will draw our names this evening if that's alright w/ everyone
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Looking forward to it!#!
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Already got my box full.
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Ok Mullet that's gittin er dun!!! LOL
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Ok Gentleman
Sorry for taking so long. Yesterday wound up a 22 HR shift.
Here is the list.
Orrum
Mullet
Tower
1442
Tracker07213
Stringman
Jeffp51
Redhand
Tracker07213
Gentleman you ship your box to the man above you.
The man at the top of the list(orrum) ships to Tracker07214
If anyone has any questions don't hesitate to ask
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Oh yea, got me some Texas rock coming. ;D
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Confused...There is no Tracker 07214 ???
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I believe Dylan said he would send 2 boxes, so he's on the list twice. (Just a typo with the last digit.)
Looks good guys. Please post pics of whatcha get so we can all drool over the rock porn. >:D >:D
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Hey Redhand,
If you like, we can meet halfway somewhere (say Strawberry Reservoir) if you want to save on postage. i would love to see some of your stuff first hand. Let me know.
Jeff
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I fixed it.
Confused...There is no Tracker 07214 ???
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Ya that would be cool Jeff if you don't mind waiting a few weeks. My weekends are pretty much full until November. Or unless you can meet sometime during the week.
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Sorry about the typo
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Perfect people are only found hiding in the restroom avoiding decisions and actions!#! LOL. All is good Tower I have the address to ship my box. As soon as my Florida petrified coral comes out and cools I will box some plus other things and ship to Tracker!
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Mine went out and will be there Thursday.
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O do so enjoy the trades here. THis year. the Xmas trade will be enough. Getting ready for the newest addition to our family. New granddaughter arriving week of Hallpween.
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Ho ho it's Xmas time!!! Got my box from Mullet today!!!! It's about as round as they come but his killer tape job held!!! It's full of ??? I got to figure this out, there are preforms in it, some really nice big snapped blades that are very wild colored and will make short knives or big arrowheads. I like these a lot!!! LOL I think some flint ridge, then from there I am lost!!! LOL There are gray, white, black, brown, rootbeer??? Then there is pink, red, orange, spotted, I tell you a lot of rocks, spalls, preforms, almost finished pieces that snapped but I will be able to pressure flake them to finish very nicely! Then there is a giant hunk of maybe coral? Another really big piece that has lumps like . I think it might be pedernales or some form of Texas flint because it has a really thick cortex. There is also a possibility it's rootbeer color. Awesome box of goodies! Thank you Mullet!#!
Now the problem, I can't send pics to flicker or photobucket. I can email them from my Samsung S5 cell phone. Or I can text them from the cell phone. Could I get a hand with this by asking one of yall to let me send you the pics and get you to put them in this thread. Somewhere on here it says to post pics of what you got. I do want yall to see these!!#
Thanks, Bill
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Glad you like it, Bill. The big piece in the bottom is a coral head. The rest is and assortment of what I have. The rootbeer is Florida chert that you normall don't find enough to knap but once in a while I drill at the limerock quarry and pick through the spoil pile during lunch. Enjoy ;D
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Hey Mullet thanks again, it's a great assortment! The big rootbeer is special! I can't wait til 2moro afternoon when I get back from the doctor, I am gonna try one of those pretty snapped blades! Maybe a rounded skinner with a gut hook? Yes!!!
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Orrum, if you wanna send me a few pics I can post em for ya. Congrats on scoring some of Eddies prized corral!!
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Hey Tracker I put your Bith box in the mail today!!# Hope it's good. Not sure as a nebie if I can tell good knapping rock from bad!
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I'm sure it's good! I sent out boxes to Redhand and 1442 today, hope you gents like um
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I sent a box off yesterday to Illinois--should be there in a couple of days.
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Sounds good Jeff.
I dropped mine in the mail this morning.
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Just got nice pile of black glass from the mailman. Oughta be able to make something sharp outta them! Thanks a bunch Jeff!
(http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s670/cotton7611/E6981D38-46C5-4571-B5AD-73E83142138D_zpsft2kowrq.jpg) (http://s1311.photobucket.com/user/cotton7611/media/E6981D38-46C5-4571-B5AD-73E83142138D_zpsft2kowrq.jpg.html)
(http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s670/cotton7611/E911C62B-56D9-4436-B473-96BE864AA1BE_zpsykhmg4zx.jpg) (http://s1311.photobucket.com/user/cotton7611/media/E911C62B-56D9-4436-B473-96BE864AA1BE_zpsykhmg4zx.jpg.html)
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Hope you can do better with it than I can. I start out with a big rock and end up with a MUCH smaller rock--if I am lucky, some of them end up a little pointy-shaped. Please share what you can get out of it, to give me something to shoot for.
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Tower,
I need you address
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I'm sorry. I thought I'd sent it. I'll try again
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Received a box of so much awesomeness from Orrum I dunno if I can do justice with pictures. Petrified wood and coral as well all sorts of other nice rock. Super excited to start making points from that stuff. And then I got my box from Scott filled with goodies Burlington and hornstone. Sadly though his box looked as though USPS threw it out of a moving truck and they "repackaged" it but a few rocks now resemble gravel. Kinda sad about that especially because it happened at the boxes last stop before being delivered to me!
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Hey Tracker glad you like your box! I was afraid I would send rocks and slabs that were not good. TRY that Owhyee Mountains cooked slabs of picture jasper from the Wild Horse Claim! I love them!
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I got a real nice box of obsidian from Tracker 0721. Found it Friday when I came home from work.
Will post pics tomorrow cause I am just home for a quick pit stop this morning for a few minutes.
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I received my box of goodies from Tracker. Its a mix of obsidian, dacite, and what appears to be a piece of chert. Thanks Tracker I cant wait to try them out.
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That chert to the best of my knowledge is Owl Creek Yellow. Found it while I was in Texas by following some old archeological maps in an area that used to be a rock hound picking spot.
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The wife just texted me that a Flat Rate box just got to the house. Thanks, Don.
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Holy Cow, Don! I don't think you could have stuffed another rock in that box. The box could almost roll. :)
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I hope you like the stone!!!
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I do, I do. Everything I hit on had a nice "ping". ;D
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Come on Eddie! You know the rule. Pics or you haveta send it back! >:D >:D
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Just got a big box in from 1442
Lots of beautiful TX Rock & 2 beautiful bifaces.
I hope I can do them justice. I'll post pics tomorrow
Thank You
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Glad it made it Tower,
That box contained all raw landscape gravel from my local Taco Bell, hardware store, convenience store, and even the landscape suppliers around here.
The two bifaces is some I had skint and threw in there too.
Some people say it needs heat treating but I mostly work it raw.
I had pics of the rocks I got from Tracker0721, but I can't find them, I'll keep looking.
In the mean time, I got a new blade on my saw and figured I'd be smart to saw slabs and get the most I could from the big chunks he sent me. The one is mahogany obsidian and the other one is black with silver grey stripes. This is all I got sawed so far and I will try to work a point out of each kind today just for fun.
I done tried bifacing a couple of the dacite pieces he sent and they didn't survive.
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Those are some nice looking slabs! Can't wait to see some points! Cheers- Brendan
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That's awesome! Those slabs look great!
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I worked a black slab. It broke multiple times before I finaly swaped to a fine abrader and real sharp pressure flaker and took a lot of care with it.
I got a point but I was wore out by then. I thought obsidian was supposed to be easy.
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I rough shaped a preform out of the butt cut of the mahogany obsidian and went to work on it with a small bopper then switched to pressure to finish.
I don't know if I was just handling the obsidian better or if this stuff flakes better, but this point went pretty smooth and didn't give me no trouble like the black one. Well it did loose a ear off a notch like the black one, but this seemed like stronger material than the black stuff.
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Looks good I like the color
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Nice points I really like that striped obsidian. Cheers- Brendan
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Obsidian can be easily bent went working snd snaps easily then. You have to support the back against your hand or leg or whatever method you use. The rainbow from Davis Ca is very shatter prone if from the wrong area. I am the king of bending my preform and therefore breaking it. LOL
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I turned the black slab in the saw and got some bigger slabs.
Worked this first one during breaks at work today
Bifaced it with a copper bopper then pressured with a ishi stick
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cont.
This seems to work better. It's cut on a different plain than that first black slab.
Maybe
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Now that's a beaut!!!
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I aspire to knap with great form and flake scars like that!!! Great knife!
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Thanks
I am real new to flaking like this, but it works well to thin and shape and just forms the contours almost automatically.
I struggle with a smooth preform to pressure flake, then use up a lot of width pressure flaking, but I think a smooth preform and keep platforms close to centerline are real important.
I gotta take off outa town a few days. I'll be bacck
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I made a few points out of the stone I received from tracker. Thanks Tracker it is some good stuff.
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a few more pics
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Impressive point from the owl creek. Some tough stuff to switch too from obsidian!
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I just got a beautiful box of rocks from Redhand. It's a fantastic variety of pieces from big slabs to flakes, and everything in between. There are also some really nice preforms that just need final flaking and some cool blue aquarium glass I can't wait to try. There are a bunch of new challenges in here for me. I am a little afraid to mess them up, but I will give it my best. Thanks so much, and thanks to tower for setting it up.