Thursday, June 21, 2007

June Flintknapping

A point made out of beautiful heat treated Coastal Plains Chert from Georgia made at the MAPS meet. The white spot is a natural variation in the stone.







A Black Obsidian knife blade in a cherry handle glued with pine pitch and wrapped with deer rawhide. Made for the MAPS meet silent auction.






This series shows the reduction process on this sweet piece of Jasper from the Delaware River Valley that I founf on the Beach in Delaware. It was pretty rough, but created a razor sharp and very durable edge.





















I ended up going with the sten base design because the flakes were coming off so large that I didn't think shoulder notching would work well. Feedback welcome.

2 comments:

Sassmouth said...

Sweet stuff. To find a rock and then make that tool out of it is amazing. I hope to be that good someday.

heybergo said...

Great pics- that knife is awesome!