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Nice work!

What do you do with the finished points?

They go into a cake tin to be given away once in a while. Put 1 or 2 a year in a shadow box and donate them to fundraisers. Just a mind emptying hobby that I'd not want to ruin by turning into a business.

Those look great! Not any raw materials around here. All my stone is ordered. The Native Americans must have traded far and wide to get the variety of stone that is found in the points locally.

rockinbbar, I know that you were asking 1 minute what he does with his points, but thought I say what I've done with mine.

I have given most all of them away to be used as a pendant on a ladies necklace. I usually put a sterling silver bail on the point but have used 14 K gold if it is going on a gold necklace. The point in the picture was used in a silent auction at a fundraiser for a young lady that was fighting cancer. It brought about $145.

Ladies love these things and I have given many to my wife's friends. Giving them away also keeps them from piling up around the house and that makes getting along with my wife a lot easier too.

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No call for that, bristoe.

Yeah, that was disgusting. I had to watch it twice to be sure,though.

okay,...okay,....nevermind,.....partypoopers.

I can only talk about pullin' bushes and diggin' a fire hole for so long,...yanno?

Then I have to revert back to my typical decadency.

I mean,...hell,....I've talked about a fuggin' chain fer 2 days.

There's only so much can be said about a fuggin' chain,.....even a class 70 chain.

Hey !!

Not all of us got a chance to be disgusted.

kwg

Mathsr:

Could you post a pic of the backside of that pendent please? Interested in just how the wire is incorporated.

Picked up about a 3 gallon bucket of that red and black material last Saturday near Glass Buttes. Literally tons of it laying about.

1minute, I don't have a picture of the back side and that one has been given away. I can put the same kind of loop on the back of another one tomorrow when I get to my shop and take some pictures of it. It doesn't take but a minute to do and it lets you mount points that otherwise you couldn't because the stem of the point doesn't have any indention that would hold the wrap.

South Texas Hunters Assoc. put a pic of a neat display on FB....

That’s amazing. Cool idea and nice execution of it😊

Sorry this took me so long...

This is what it looks like from the back. It is a simple wrap at the point end that I fit as tight as I can to the point. I then make a run up the center of the back and do another wrap around the stem, coming back under the wire and making a loop at the end. I make sure that both ends are pointing at the point rather than pointing out where they might stick the wearer. I use some jewelers cement to lock the wire down and keep it from shifting. After it hardens, I'll take some round jewelers pliers, straighten up the wire a little and clean off some of the jeweler's cement so that it looks a little better. I'm no where near to being a jewelry maker and don't claim to be, but I haven't had one complaint yet and many people have several, so it must be working...

This is the front side of the point with the silver loop for a necklace.