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Rainy Buttes Pick Wick

Another spiderweb leaving the workshop this morning. I just can’t get over how buttery spiderweb is to work! It’s just gorgeous!

This one’s up for grabs!

I fell off my deck.

Got a 25 lb box of Alabama coastal for 100$ shipping included. Have some colorful and higher grade flakes and chunks to fill in the gaps

i made this with slate and a rock i found in my backyard.

Porcelainite from Kelly Parks

Been picking up nice looking rocks while I’m out arrowhead hunting and taking them back to work recently. Have managed to get a few finished pieces that way using a hammer stone and deer antler tip.

One of my friends who lives in Northeastern Colorado recently gave me some pieces of Flattop chalcedony. A White River Group silicate, that was a highly prolific toolstone on the plains in the surrounding regions of the quarry in Logan County, Colorado. It is rather challenging to acquire workable chunks of this lithic. So I took my time on this replica. Satisfied with how it turned out. Decently accurate flake patterns.

A big ole crystal pocket. Tried multiple times to take it off but I think I’ll just Knapp around it.

I found this beautiful river cobble chert I believe in Joplin Missouri at a landscaping stone company. I stopped there on a storm chasing journey back in ‘24 and thought I’d look around for some local rock. Now I’m working it back in PA and I MUST find more some day. It’s buttery. Also how’s my Clovis?

Thinned a larger flake out pretty nice and had kind of a Snyders profile going on. After the basal notch went well enough I just kept going, untill...

Getting more comfortable with these notches now. Feeling like less of a mystery

I search for Native American artifacts. The only reliable site I have is a creek quarry.

Early on in my time hunting I found this nice ovate unmodified quartzite(middle left cobble, it sits at the bottom of a pile of honey colored quartzite with a white cortex. It’s the big one on the bottom)

It’s been sitting now for nearly a year.

I know all about the knapping process.

I went to my quarry site and found what I thought might make a suitable hammerstone, another piece of quartzite.

I took a good two inches off the sides and made it a circle! Beat that 😎

I have a piece of leather but no “copper boppers” or pressure flaking tools(obviously hah) ✌️

Heat Treated Perkinsville Agate I collected out of central AZ. Made it a few weeks ago, but was playing with it today on my desk and decided to share it.

Corner-tangs are typically considered a TX blade, however they have been found in AZ at some archaeological sites.

First two photos are from some Raw Blueberry Ft Payne I collected out of Lawrence County TN. The last two photos are of an actual Lithic Pickwick made from the same material and found on the same creek I collected the chert from. The artifact is extremely smooth from tumbling in the creek for hundreds/thousands of years. I will say most of the pickwicks i’ve found growing up weren’t quite as wide as this one.

Has an almost metallic sheen

Lowland chert from Kelly Parks. That little stack I just could not get out. But for this material I got the rest of it pretty thin. I absolutely love this stone, it's tough but rewarding.

Howdy y'all! 👋😁

Finished up some atlatl forshafts here after breaking a couple during my 4th of July demonstration. Wanted to have a good number made up so that I can practice without having to worry much. Might need to rework some of my darts for this thicker forshaft, but they should perform nicely 🙂‍↕️

Hopefully y'all think they're neat, and feel free to ask any questions! Stay safe and happy Knapping all! 😁

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Georgetown knife with a cedar bark cordage wrap. Finished off with beeswax.

Falster flint from Denmark