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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Jul 20, 2013 12:52:06 GMT -5
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jul 20, 2013 13:11:53 GMT -5
Totally cool.....Nice tumbles!
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Post by snuffy on Jul 20, 2013 13:17:00 GMT -5
Yeah,that Flint Ridge is some of the prettiest rocks in my opinion.Just a bit too far for me to go get some.Nice color,shine,pleasing batch!
snuffy
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Post by orrum on Jul 20, 2013 13:46:28 GMT -5
Yea man those are super nice! How long in 60/90 Chuck?
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Jul 20, 2013 14:15:03 GMT -5
orrum - out of the 20 pounds I put in 60/90 on jun 16th these were the only 3 pounds that were ready to go in the lot-o after 3 weeks. The saw scraps are always fast and the rest of these must of just been smoother to begin with. This week I didn't pull any out for 120 so the rest will be a bit longer.
Chuck
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 20, 2013 16:35:53 GMT -5
Flint Ridge makes one of my favorite tumbles. Always take a mirror polish. Gorgeous batch!....Mel
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Post by Jugglerguy on Jul 20, 2013 17:43:45 GMT -5
I think my favorites are in the fourth and fifth pictures. I really like the bottom left one in the fifth picture. Your favorite is really interesting. It's strange how abruptly it changes from one type of material to the other. I can't believe how much variety there is in the rock from that one small area. I need to encourage my wife to go visit her college friends in Ohio.
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Post by Bikerrandy on Jul 20, 2013 18:52:47 GMT -5
Cool stones, they turned out beautiful too!
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Post by garock on Jul 20, 2013 18:58:46 GMT -5
Great Polish and beautiful stones !
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Post by cardiobill on Jul 20, 2013 22:23:13 GMT -5
Look great chuck. As everyone else said they really do take a great shine. Once you have collected there it is pretty easy to see how the different types will look after they shine up. There is a lot of the grey stuff there that is closer to the surface. I think a lot of people don't like it but I really do. The stuff you were wondering was heat treated was not. I found a fair amount of it last time I was there.
Thanks for the pics. I still need to get there this year.
Bill
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Post by Toad on Jul 21, 2013 5:43:16 GMT -5
Looks great. I will be putting some of mine in 60/90 this week. I see a lot of similar patterns/colors in what I picked up. Hope mine turn out as well...
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Post by carloscinco on Jul 21, 2013 8:49:31 GMT -5
Great looking colors and patterns. That is very cool flint, well done!
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Post by jamesp on Jul 21, 2013 10:12:49 GMT -5
I finally get to see Flint Ridge up close and personal. Great presentation.
Sure does have a lot of variation, nothing boring at all.
Those 2 are almost for sure heat treated. Pink and red is the most common color to arrive at in iron bearing agates/flints. Call that flint if you want but it gives a lot of agates a run for it's money in color quality! The long slender piece looks like a 'high speed percussion' chip typical of core and tool manufacture. Often these percussion chips are removed w/great skill and mystery considering they had no metal tools. Those are the types of chips I would find 3 feet deep in the river where exposed coral shoals are. Or timbered areas that exposed ancient camps. My absolute favorite to tumble because 1) professionally heat treated(not by jackleg James:)) 2) a true artifact-chipped and heated 3) usually superior material from great great great great great great granddads favorite vein of material 4) the jewel quality of a chip that size has great material presentation as ornament My most valuable tumbles are tumbled heated percussion chips. Thanks for sharing Chuck. Loved the 'crater' you guys descended into
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Jul 21, 2013 12:27:42 GMT -5
Thanks James. Those two pink pieces really reminded me of the heated corals that I tumbled from your stuff. I didn't see any of it there but I was down in the pits. One of my kids found those while surface collecting so I was thinking maybe those were scraps from one of the knapping events that have been held there.
Chuck
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Post by jamesp on Jul 21, 2013 13:39:32 GMT -5
Good eyes. Collecting knappings is #1 priority w/me. Really.
Another test for heat treatment is to chip a little piece off and the shear should be smooth and waxy. Knappers often use very grainy cherts. Strangely heat treated material is rarely grainy but breaks waxy. Also makes smooth waxy spear heads from grainy old chert....
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Post by herchenx on Jul 21, 2013 16:12:49 GMT -5
Super tumble, liquid shine for sure and the material is really nice.
Great pics too!
Sent from my phone.
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Post by rollingstone on Jul 22, 2013 13:45:04 GMT -5
Great stuff! The banded ones and the ones that look brecciated are my faves.
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Post by orrum on Jul 27, 2013 11:10:24 GMT -5
Heat treated flint or agate jasper etc is hard to dop with super glue too.
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Post by grizman on Jul 27, 2013 13:13:23 GMT -5
I agree with John on your finish...it is truly liquid! Very nice job. I'd love to gather up some flint sometime.
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Post by pghram on Jul 29, 2013 9:47:00 GMT -5
Beautiful tumble.
Rich
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