Knapp time.

[JestersHK]

Ahhh gotcha.  Brain still mush... need sleep lol

[Al Agnew]

On 10/4/2018 at 11:50 PM, fishinwrench said:

Um, yeah!!!  

Very cool stuff.   In all of my poking around I've only found 2 in my life, and one was all curved (couldn't have been used for anything really). They were in my old gun cabinet, I guess I lost them in the twister.  

I hopped in a guys truck once for a ride to town and he had 3-4 on the dash and another one in the cupholder. I asked about them and he was like "oh yeah, I find them all over the place, this one here I found on the road when I stopped to pee".   

I guess I just don't have the eye for it.  

Wrench, the curved one was probably used, just not as a spear point.  Possibly a hafted knife, or a hide scraper.  I can imagine that a lot of times a point didn't turn out quite the way the knapper had hoped, but it was still sharp, and ended up being used for something else.

I found one in the gravel parking lot at Bismarck Lake one time--it was probably in the creek gravel that was hauled in to cover the lot.  I still can't pass up bare dirt without automatically looking for points.  And one other type of place that is seldom hunted for them is atop bluffs.  I've found a few pieces in such places, but know people who have found a lot of good stuff on nearly bare rock atop a bluff, and my grandpa found a couple in his tilled garden, which was just 50 yards back from the edge of a bluff on a smallish creek.

[BilletHead]

              A couple more and a failure,

   Finished up a Snyders. A middle woodland typically associated with Hopewellian phases across the Midwest. 2200 to 1500 before present 200 BC- 450 AD. I was a little bummed on my notching. I stalled out on my antler tools and had to break out the copper and steel tools to get a bite for a proper c notch flake to get a restart. I prefer to use what the Aboriginals had at their disposal for making points. IMO until the historic period they had none to limited metals like copper to knapp with. Ongoing debate in the knapping community on this. Copper decorations and what some call hair pins were found in later periods. This point measures 2 5/8 in length x 2 1/4 in width.   

   Pretty thin and on the flip side I had some percussion flakes do some diving producing a dished spot.

   Yesterday I finished up another. Really happy all the way around with this one. A Scottsbluff 3 1/4" in length. Cross section spot on. The base is ground smooth as they were done for hafting. We have only one Scottsbluff in our collection that we have found. It is actually illustrated in this  ID book as it two other points the BilletHeads have found. A date range of 9820 to 8750 before present, 7878 BC to 6800 BC. Like i said tickled to death with this one,

  A failure too. A miss hit, too much of a bite instantly turned this preform into a three piece,  of r

      Fun day yesterday. Chief and I had a roadside visit and I got gifted a bag of red hot riplets! To top that off our man Ness was on a trip by the area and he made the detour to BilletHeadVille for a short visit! We did some point show and tell. We will see if he ( @ness )  will tell you what he held in his hands . I think we should start a point show and tell on another thread. I really do not want old and modern points mixed together,

   BilletHead

[ness]

34 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

We will see if he ( @ness )  will tell you what he held in his hands . 

Of course I can— it was an arrowhead 😄

[BilletHead]

52 minutes ago, ness said:

Of course I can— it was an arrowhead 😄

        You had your lesson. Sounds like you did not pass. It's a POINT  ! hahahahha

BilletHead

[Walleyedmike]

Amazing stuff there BilletHead! IF it's not too late would love to be included in the drawing for the point!

WM

[BilletHead]

         Ok here is the list. Will get someone to draw a name ,

  13 Quillback

7 Johnsfolly

1 Daryk Campbell Sr

3 Duckydoty

6 Jesters HK

10 nomolites

12 Terrierman

11 Snagged in outlet 3

8  Ness

9  Ness' lady

2 Deadstream

4 Fishinwrench

5 Follysbetterhalf

14 Walleyedmike

    

     BilletHead

      

 

[BilletHead]

We have a winner! 

      I assigned numbers by alphabetical order. Sent numbers with the Mrs. to work and the Doc she works for drew one. Soooo

#6 mush brain that needs some sleep JestersHK I need your address .  Do you want it signed? Thanks to all that wanted this point. I may have to do this again. Gives me a reason to chip another,

    BilletHead

 

      

 

[duckydoty]

Congratulations DJ

[Terrierman]

A real fun trend here.  Congratulations  to Mr. JestersHK.