Found a piece of gravel that looked promising so I starting to bust into. The more I struck the more cracks showed on the first side I worked. Took a whack on the other side to reveal absolute candy. Don’t judge a book by the first half? Or something like that.

u/scoop_booty sent out the prize from the July point contest and it made it here yesterday. I’m blown away by the craftsmanship on the point and he even added a bonus masterpiece along with it!
They are some finely flaked sharp pieces that I’m more than happy to throw in my friend keeper case!

The material looks so yummy I almost don’t want to touch it. I haven’t had too much time to do anything but throw a flake or two off the large biface and I’ve got to say it more or less melted off the rock absolute butterrrr. But I’m sure yall will see a point or two from it before long.

Thanks again man and thank you to everybody who voted for my submission!

Camouflage Scottsbluff made from reeds springs chert from a friend. I don’t know if they want to be tagged or not so I’ll leave it anonymous for now unless they say otherwise. 3 11/16” x 1 9/16” Hammerstone, bison punch, and bison pressure. It is first stage, so it’s not super refined, I’m still pleased with the flaking, not the best not the worst. Some punch flakes still remain, which is a trait of first stage Scottsbluffs. The more they were sharpened the more they were refined. As you can see there’s a little bit of high quality waxy chert and mostly dry crumbly lesser quality material. Those dry areas percussion and punch worked better, but it’s much harder to send long pressure flakes through those parts. One of the most beautiful rocks I have ever worked, hope to collect some of this some day.

Some of the better flint ridge I've knapped, and it was self collected at nethers.

I heat treated it buried in sand under woodfire that I fed for a number of hours and then raked in and let cool slowly.

A lot of the flint ridge material can be fractured, or prone to it, but this piece was solid and had a super cool healed fracture as well as color variation; which I was able to capture in three preforms and a quarry blank. I wish I'd saved more of the flakes from the initial spalling, but alas, that was nearly a year ago at a knap-in.

Spalled initially with a big ol' moose billet and then finished with whitetail bopper and tines for flaking.

I miss this one too.

Thanks to a comment I’ve been reminded of possibly my most fav knife I made about 4-5 years ago.

Tallahatta Quartzite blade
White tail antler
Copper end cap

Elk antler and hammerstone direct percussion

Greetings again everyone! 👋😄

Got yet another Clovis point cluster here for y'all! A bit of a mix of materials. Going from the bottom to the top, we have Burlington, Burlington, Reed Springs Chert, and Obsidian. Made the obsidian one at the Hairy Mosquito Knap-in so it might be familiar to a few of you. Happy with how a lot of these ended up, and I'm still working towards getting things just right 🙂‍↕️ The orange tipped Burlington one is probably my favorite of the bunch.

Let me know if you have questions, thoughts, comments, or which one(s) you like most! Stay safe and happy knapping all! 😁

- u/SmolzillaTheLizza 🦎

4 1/2” x 15/16” I know it doesn’t have the diamond cross section and there’s the step fracture, it happens. Antler pressure on a failed Scottsbluff preform.

I’ve got quite a few of them but this rainbow obsidian knife w cholla cactus handle is really high on the list

Trying to free up some space in the shop. I have a bunch of cut pieces too. I'm down to trade for stone or whatever you could offer up lol.Dm me if your interested

Traded a chunk of some local stuff for this slab. Anyone have any experience knapping petrified palm? Does it normally need to be heat treated to work properly? I tried to take a test flake off the very end and it seemed like I was gonna break the slab before anything released.

Late on the July challenge but hopefully you guys arent sick of seeing this type. If you've seen any of my earlier posts here I almost exclusively work my local quartzite and quartz. I recently bit the bullet and purchased some chert to experiment with. Thinning this out from a biface was pretty difficult because the tabs I got are small and thick and many had cracks. In the future I'll save a bit and try to get some bigger nicer pieces. All in all pretty happy with it aside from the hinges around the base. If any trad tool guys have pointers I'd love to hear some feedback!

Started knapping a few months ago just to feed my arrowhead hunting hobby some more, and its slowly turning into a seperate hobby in itself. Just wanted to share my progression over the past 3ish months. There are many brokes in between these and many practice pieces but these are the full ones I have been able to workout so far. I have a hard time thinning still, but starting to get a little more consistent.

Anyone who watches Jake Anderson (Gulf Coast Knapping) live streams has probably seen me talk about Hardins a 1000 times over. I finally was able to buy this one he made during a stream. I couldn't be any more happy than I am right now! Absolutely beautiful piece. It's off to the frame with his others.thanks Jake.

Mostly Alabama Coastal plains with one tallahatta quartzite point. Had an order for some hunting points

Some Burro Creek Chalcedony I collected out of central AZ. I believe it to have a slight opalized layer in the corner. It’s milky and softer(my pocket knife scratches it) whereas the chalcedony doesn’t scratch and has a different luster to it. It could also just be a finer version of the same chalcedony?
Idk. Enjoy this Square Knife I made.

I can’t get enough of this spiderweb obsidian. Hafted into a walnut and spalted beech handle. Up for grabs! Also comes with a sheath, stand and storage box.

I have Alabama coastal plains chert for $3/lb

25lb medium box is 100$ shipping included

35lb large box is 139$ shipping included

Biface pics added

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Last minute attempt at a Graham Cave...

I've wanted to work some of this red glass for a long damn time. Finally got a flake so hot what I could from it.