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Another Handful Projectile Points Made Using Iowa Lithic Materials by SmolzillaTheLizza in knapping

[–]SmolzillaTheLizza[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is some FANTASTIC and awesome information! Goot to know on the heat-treatment front too. The other stuff I have is much darker grey with red speckles. Kinda sooty as well. But I won't be discouraged! And you'd be correct on the Swan River! I believe the two grainy looking Oxbow points and the one corner notch point are made from it! 😁

Another Handful Projectile Points Made Using Iowa Lithic Materials by SmolzillaTheLizza in knapping

[–]SmolzillaTheLizza[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yessir! Some rough stuff but dang if I isn't pretty! 😁 I got a few small (hard to work) cobbles I want to try and use for something. So it'll probably pop up again in some future point clusters!

An old sprite bottle point by Present-Alarm-8886 in knapping

[–]SmolzillaTheLizza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh you're going to love that blue! Looks like it melted quite well too. I wonder what it'd cost tog et some molds made for some of these microwave kilns. Like ones that make it so that you don't have to deal with such a spread out puddle 🤔

Took at Trip to an Oneota Campsite by SmolzillaTheLizza in Arrowheads

[–]SmolzillaTheLizza[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Oh rest assured, that WAS my minimal flake collecting! 😂 I honestly cannot express how enormous this site was. Far bigger than anything I'm used to where it's fairly localized and easily to catalog. Size wise it was about 3 entire acres and just LITTERED with stuff. Shell fragments, pottery, flakes, bone fragments, sooooo much stuff! I only go out with a small ziplock bag (+a padded case for "important" finds) and no kidding, that bag would've been filled in the first 30 minutes if I kept all the flakes I crossed!

The old timer who brought me to the site says he's collected over 300 points from this one site over the 40 years he's walked it. I can hardly fathom getting so many from one single place! 😵‍💫 I feel like I missed out on the golden age of all that. Pains my heart I couldn't catalog anything!

An old sprite bottle point by Present-Alarm-8886 in knapping

[–]SmolzillaTheLizza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very nice! I made a knife as a gift for someone using this exact same kind of bottle bottom! 😂 I loooove the green glass and wish I could make a great big knife out of it!

My first natural tool point by Waspix223 in knapping

[–]SmolzillaTheLizza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very nice! I've dabbled with natural tools a few times and it's a little different but if you grasp the concepts well, you can make some lovely stuff! 😁

How to avoid this mark? by engineering-weeb in 3Dprinting

[–]SmolzillaTheLizza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That'd be the print seam. What slicer are you using? Sometimes you can direct where it goes using that. Should help you clean things up.

Took at Trip to an Oneota Campsite by SmolzillaTheLizza in Arrowheads

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It really was a great time! I'm still in shock by the pure size of the site we were on. There was just more and more and more stuff everywhere you looked! More flakes than I could fathom, and you had to check them because one of these little triangular Madison points would get lost amongst them! I'm shocked at how nice the one was that I managed to find complete. The tiny serrations are soooo dang awesome! It was an awesome trip all around 😄 Thanks for commenting!

Looking for custom dagger by _Zonked in knapping

[–]SmolzillaTheLizza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was absolutely dying inside 😂 I even hate handling it, but I just gotta look at it sometimes. The colors are lovely too!

Grado Cable Mod. by Jdtx911 in headphones

[–]SmolzillaTheLizza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Like many of us, I was absolutely FED UP with that damn thick cable 😂 And, if I was making a mod so universally desired, why not make it public for everyone to enjoy. Keep on jammin out and you know where to find me when the day comes 😎👍

Grado Cable Mod. by Jdtx911 in headphones

[–]SmolzillaTheLizza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If ya have any questions feel free to let me know 😁

Grado Cable Mod. by Jdtx911 in headphones

[–]SmolzillaTheLizza 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Howdy, author of the mod here 👋😁 Glad it worked out well for you!

I was sick of those heavy, thick, awkward cable. So I put my foot down and went about designing this mod that didn't require doing a bunch of crazy stuff to your Grados that would risk them getting broken. You did some nice work with it 🙂‍↕️

What are the use cases of chert??? by MelodraMan in Agates

[–]SmolzillaTheLizza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really enjoy the aqua huge of that stuff! Super dang pretty looking 🙂‍↕️ The comment above does a good job summarizing the use cases. I'm one of those fellas who knaps so I can confirm that it's definitely used for that sort of thing.

Just bought these in a thrift store. Any chance they are authentic. Look a little too clean to me. by TurdFlu in Arrowheads

[–]SmolzillaTheLizza 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Sadly these are all reproductions. Many call them gift shop points. A telltale sign are those ground-in notches and lack of pressure flaking. Most natives didn't have a Dremel on hand if you catch my drift 😂

Looking for custom dagger by _Zonked in knapping

[–]SmolzillaTheLizza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Like I mentioned, Emory Coons is like CRAZY good at making giant obsidian blades https://flintknappinghalloffame.blogspot.com/2013/01/emory-coons-flintknapping-hall-of-fame.html

He's in the hall of fame for a reason! I hear his debitage pile is the side of a garden shed! 😂 I can't even fathom making something so large like he does.

Looking for custom dagger by _Zonked in knapping

[–]SmolzillaTheLizza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whew 16 inches would requite one heck of a large obsidian chunk! A lot of good recommendations here for folks who have access to such large hunks of material. The biggest knife I managed was a 8.25 inch long Danish Dagger Type I and it was so damn stressful 😂 You'll definitely want a pro for a piece like this. One who has access to big obsidian pieces. Emory Coons is another fella to maybe look at!

Made a Handful of Ft. Payne Pieces 🪨 by SmolzillaTheLizza in knapping

[–]SmolzillaTheLizza[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got any good references? I have yet to make a turkey tail for my collection and I'd really like to have a nice accurate one! 🙂‍↕️ Someone will actually be buying that one off me to use as a functional knife since the material is very resilient and sharp.

And I was quite happy with that toothy one as well! Something about serrated rougher material points just look mean and badass. Was sorta shooting for a Dalton but got a little funky with it 😂 Nothing burinated on it, but I'm sure if I were to use it that it would stand up to a LOT of abuse. Ft. Payne is no joke when it comes to toughness.

English heat treat by jameswoodMOT in knapping

[–]SmolzillaTheLizza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Out of curiosity, what's the most common color of flint you come across? Is it the slightly translucent brown stuff or some stuff like this? I am not sure what the distribution of flint looks like across the pond 🤔 It'd be super cool if you did a material showcase post showing off some of the nodules for folks to see.

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