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Just recently in a land near by, Salmonella initiated Volume 1 on this subject. Photobucket's recent faux pas essentially destroyed about 30 some pages of what was a most interesting and well illustrated thread. Let's get it resurrected with some now functioning links to both new and/or old images.

Put this up the other day in the old thread. These are modern reproductions I've generated. The only cheap hobby I've ever taken up as the raw material (obsidian) is readily available in the yard.



Salmonella, bring us back some real McCoy's please. Snow's melting, rains are falling, fields are being worked up, so there should be some new finds out there.

found a good pair yesterday

last month



got a couple more on my phone. I'll try to get them transfered

Glad to see a reboot of a favorite thread.

Time to get my Mucks and flipper stick.

Don, that moss agate point is sweet!

Good job resurrecting a great thread, I thoroughly enjoyed the first one. As I said on the other thread 1minute, you’ve got a talent for making arrowheads and several here have a talent for finding them. Salmonella has an amazing collection and the dream man cave to house it all.

I just wish there wasn't so much no-till going on here. It's really hard to find points in ground that's not being worked. Here's one I found in my garden last year.

Thanks for keeping this thread going! one of the best !

This is a collection that goes back over 50 years for me.

just some scraps that aren't in the display cabinet. to much work to get them out. these are from walla walla Wa. area. spot the repops

Familiar 'big sandy' blunts in there James.

I have dozens of them. They must have broken a lot them little tips off trying to wedge them in-between the ribs of the Eastern Bison 8,000 yrs ago.

I gotta figure out rics image gallery again.

Programming a mars rover is easier😃😃😃

Slumlord is right, gawd James where are ya at. Some type of big sandy Woodstock site or something?😃😃😃

Gotta be 22-25 big sandy types in that case.

How long does it take you to make one of those points?

Thank you 12344mag for the help pm

My 1st case of decent stuff took about 3yrs to accumulate
Bout 1/4th to 1/3rd of the way to a second.

Slumlord got me into this addiction
We have had our ups and downs as friends over the past 10 yrs
I gave him a Clovis I had found a couple of days prior to his transplant surgery
To brighten him up as best I could.
The man and his family had a real rough time going thru that
Not an average routine transplant at all by far.
Nuff said on my part.
Friends fight and get over chyt.....

If you're good only a few minutes. Depends on size, detail, and level of technology (e.g. Folsum, Cody, etc.) This link is just an example.

Link

12344mag:

The small true arrow heads I can knock out in 5 minutes or so. Points/knives 4+ inches long might require 30 to 45 minutes. I've done some 10 inch implements, but not made any foot longs yet. Need to get out and find some larger material. Matched pairs are the real bears. The first is a piece of cake. Generating a second with the same dimensions/lines can take 45 minutes to an hour if I don't break anything.

I once did a set of 12 matched points, each 5 inches long, of varying colors, and mounted them in circular pattern in a shadow box for a RMEF fundraiser. All told there was about 24 hrs of labor involved. They were auctioned off and during those moments I was busy tending to some committee business. Some guy got them for $75. Had I been aware of the goings on, I would have bought them back for 3 or 4 times that. Spent $50 on the box and mounting. No interest at all in doing sale materials. Just one of my worthless hobbies.

I've not seriously attempted to master Folsom and Clovis techniques. My few efforts have mostly generated pieces that are snapped in half. They now reside in my neighbor's horse lot surrounded by a scatting of French words.


Huntsman22: Is that top left image of yours above glass or some very transparent agate? Glass, if one can find an old dump with gallon jar bottoms, is great stuff to work with. Unless heat-treated, agate and flint is tough material to work up. Obsidian can be extremely sharp, but not as durable as flint or agate.


renegade50 and JameJr: Some very nice stuff and a variety of implements there (points, knives, scrapers, awls, drills, and bifaces that could be used for who knows what). Nice collections indeed.

For pics it might be helpful to include something for scale. There's some really fine art out there that can be incredibly small.

Keep it up.