Who are we? Who are you? Any ladies on this forum? Are we mostly older; younger; somewhere in the middle? Have you been knapping for a month; a year; 10 years or more? Where are we from? When I was talking to Craig Ratzat (Keokuk quarry) he told me he thought that eastern knappers out numbered western knappers by 100 to 1. I think he was narrowly defining "western" as the Pacific Northwest and California, but even so, that seems like a huge difference. He ascribed this to the ready availability of old points in the East, Midwest, South, and Southwest making for increased interest in those regions. Not only have I never found a point here in western Washington, it's illegal to remove one if I should find it, so maybe he's right. What do you think? This is who I am: Male; retired (64 in a couple weeks); exposed to knapping for several years but only really worked on it since May of this year (had laser surgery in one eye last week so don't know when I'll start knapping again because I wear glasses for close up and now the corrected eye will be different and the glasses will be wrong; last point before surgery, below.) My goal is to attain journeyman competence as a knapper. The points you guys (are there any gals?) are posting are inspiring and I regret that I'm this old already before I've begun my journey.
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