jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 31, 2012 19:18:46 GMT -5
I am moving to 220 grit on this 16 pound load. This stuff is on it's 4th week and is stuborn to round.Photos will show heat treated and not heat treated material.All heat treated material was done by ancient man as these are chips i picked up in a like 10 acre indian camp.And many of the artifacts are crafted with a color pattern like a red tip or a yellow base.They probably didn't have tumblers....... Left is not heat treated that i knapped from nodules found in a vein.Right are heat treated chips found in an indian camp.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 31, 2012 19:31:13 GMT -5
Not heat treated Not heat treated Not heat treated Heat treated Heat treated Heat treated
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Nov 1, 2012 0:22:20 GMT -5
Wow,nature at its best with that agate...........
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rons
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Post by rons on Nov 1, 2012 11:02:08 GMT -5
That is some neat material..cabed a bunch, some hard stuff and shines like crazy,,also if your into micro's the vugs are quite interesting, I've id'd about 2 dozen minerals so far..a cool area to collect.material is plentiful..maybe we'll bump into you down there sometime
Later, Ron
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herchenx
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Post by herchenx on Nov 1, 2012 16:59:04 GMT -5
Very cool stuff, thanks for sharing
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Post by joshuamcduffie on Mar 9, 2019 20:58:02 GMT -5
I picked up some of that yesterday. Is it possible to heat treat it myself?
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 10, 2019 10:14:54 GMT -5
jamesp, I missed this first round. I didn't know there was such a thing!
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Mar 10, 2019 12:35:04 GMT -5
jamesp, I missed this first round. I didn't know there was such a thing! The Savannah River material Tela ? it is found in a section of Georgia about the size of a state county. Large land owners have now made it more difficult to access the material. The unusually colorful material in above photos were heat treated chips from Native man's large encampment that had been timbered.. It took some serious collecting to pick up enough of their heat treated chips to fill a tumbler from their encampment. Unfortunately there was no saw size chunks, just chips from the the chunks early man had left. Not sure where Native man found the mother stock but not many people in historical times can find the source of such pretty material. I have collected there for 3 decades and could never find material as nice as the Natives collected go figure.
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