Wood knappers' tough rock exchange
Okay, looks like there are enough brave souls to try this (see "Floating an idea" thread). If you want in, reply to this post saying you're in and give your approximate location. Registration ends...
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I'm in. Ulster county N.Y. on the Shawangunk Mountain formation. Many grades of quartzite.
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Well that's most of us. I think you all have knapped the Antietam I get. If I can get a box scared up I will send it out.
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I'm out guys. Much as I'd like to join the fun, my local stone is abominable. Spent the day searching high and low, besides my familiar places I included new upland sources and previously unexplored...
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Pete: So, you're in, or maybe you're in? If you're in, is there anyone here you haven't traded stone with?Forager: Just curious, where are you at? What types of stone were used in your area by the...
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Keith I am in the northeastern corner of NJ just several miles west of Manhattan, NYC. The common 'everyday' prehistoric stone tool collections I've seen from this area are of random materials which...
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I'd suggest getting rid of the June 2 deadline and extend for a month. Maybe more interest will accrue. Like I said, I can send out a box.
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There is so few of us we may have all tried each others rocks already. Maybe we should do a point exchange?
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I think I like both Pete's and Steve's ideas. Let's do a point exchange, but later in the summer. Meanwhile, Forager, if you will take it, I would like to send you a box of Central Virginia...
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Now this I can do. Keith I'd love to try your quartzite, I'll send you a PM. Thanks for modifying the exchange.
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Keith has the good downriver stuff with all the beautiful staining in it.
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Very nice variety, presumably illustrated in our current banner image.
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I like the new idea to. Gives me more time to seek out two new sources of Q. And one in Vestal on the Susquehanna River.
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Id like to do both but I am a busy man at the moment and I work well under pressure just not the pressure of making a decent point by deadline.. Forager have u ever been to the Palisade cliff/wall of...
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Russ I have a lifetime of memories from my early childhood up to the present based on my easy access to the cliffs of the Palisades (I am just a few miles away). I appreciate the suggestion and can...
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Ah... OK.good to know..I've never been there but saw pictures and a few people looking as if they were spalling pieces from the large column that fell from the face..I'm sure with your time and...
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OK, I'll be the first to declare that I've finally succeeded in extracting a point from Keith's challenging material and am prepared for the Exchange. Thanks again for sending me the box of split...
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Pete,Are you trying out the wood hammer idea? When I first switched over, I immediately took to the 2-3 inch diameter hammers, but the smaller 1 to 1 1/2 inch heads gave me fits. My natural...
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Inelastic and damn near impossible at times. The tendency of hard bulbs to appear within the material, that cannot be taken off from any approach, make any finished tool a real prize. No hammers as of...
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