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Post by orrum on Nov 29, 2016 18:35:49 GMT -5
I will ask my ancient technology instructor mentor. Hey I finished the tomahawk with the turquoise inlay Phil. I need to email you a pic. I would post one here but cant.
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Post by phil on Nov 29, 2016 22:30:02 GMT -5
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Post by NDK on Dec 1, 2016 13:50:34 GMT -5
If you get some more in the future I would be interested. I make Native American crafts sometimes and have two masks from the Hopi Reservation that were given to me as gifts. I had them in storage for a while and the feathers were severely damaged and I would like to replace them. - James, I sent you a pm. |
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Post by orrum on Dec 6, 2016 18:02:46 GMT -5
Oh boy o boy what beautiful feathers!!! Got my turkey feathers and the have every color in the rainbow, so fresh and undamsged, iredescent and awesomeness!!! Plus I got slabs!!! One is definitely obsidian and just perfect to make a nice wide Snyder point!!! The other is dendritic opal I think...I chipped nice as a tiny test on the edge so that will be a gem point!!! Don't get to knap much gem stone. Lastly tho there is a huge slab of something. It's white and has the greatest fortification lines in very distinctive white!!! It's about 8 inches long and 4 inches wide!!! Nice nice nice!!! What is it?  Also what saw and blade are you using??? These are as slick as a baby's butt!!! Thanks so much!!! Man I am overwhelmed! |
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Post by NDK on Dec 6, 2016 22:08:39 GMT -5
Glad you like the package Bill. The big white 1 I bought at a show, I thought it might make a cool large point with the fortifications showing. The black isn't obsidian, I'm not really sure what it is. Bought a big chunk at Kingsley North (even the lady there didn't know what it was lol) and took a few slabs off it. You're correct about the dendritic opal. Was there a Geode in there too? Those I dug with my daughter in Hamilton Ill. Just across the river from Keokuk Iowa.
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Post by orrum on Dec 7, 2016 7:16:08 GMT -5
No geode.... Let me look in the box agsin. Thanks a bunch, can't wait to chip the opal but mostly I want to make some fetish from the feathers with my magnetite beads! They should look awesome in the sun! Anybody want to look at these will understand why Ben Franklin wanted the turkey, brains, stealth, beauty etc! I just read a thread on using coolant to dye feathers!!! LOL I always said two drops of coolaid could stain half the kitchen!!
Merry Christmas and hope you have a great spring turkey season!!#
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Post by orrum on Dec 7, 2016 21:16:51 GMT -5
Yes geode is there!!! It was under the bag of feeters! Hey I like this rock...
I am a lil weird about teggs and geodes. I collect them but never cut them open! LOL I label them and put them in a box, dream about the wild colors and patterns inside inside. I drive Susan crazy not cutting them open!
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Post by NDK on Dec 7, 2016 23:16:02 GMT -5
Got my points in the mail today. Bill you do beautiful work! Thank you so much!
I'll get some pictures when I have time after work tomorrow evening. Hopefully photobucket will cooperate so I can post them!
P.S. my daughter is the same way. Had a t-egg on her windowsill for years and won't let me get it anywhere near a saw lol
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Post by orrum on Dec 8, 2016 7:20:58 GMT -5
Glad you like them! Now you gotta make a knife handle and haft the blade!!! I am going to display my eggs and geodes on a mantle piece I just had sawn out of chinaberry that blew over in the hurricane. I do soak and scrub them up. I do tumble the broken ones and the sawed ones that I get. They r just little mystery things that I love!
Merry Christmas to all!!!!
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Post by NDK on Dec 8, 2016 21:09:47 GMT -5
Finally got the photo on photobucket. Then I had to get the link... here's the awesome points Bill knapped  Thanks Bill! |
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Post by orrum on Dec 8, 2016 22:12:26 GMT -5
U r very welcome! Now we want to see you hafr a blade into the blade!!! They are sharp!
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Post by NDK on Dec 9, 2016 11:47:12 GMT -5
I will find something worthy to make a handle from. I've got a really nice shed antler that would work great. Problem is it's a beautiful shed & I don't wanna cut it up
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Post by orrum on Dec 9, 2016 13:03:48 GMT -5
Dang I got bunches of antlers, could sent you a hunk. Bone makes a good handle from deer. Roots make a cool handle because you sand the and grind them and you get lots of twirly grain. Whoa stone!!!# make it out of stone, it's a small blade so won't take a huge piece. Just saw a place b4 cabbing to put the blade in. I have seen this online and it's awesome!!!
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Post by NDK on Dec 9, 2016 17:09:04 GMT -5
I've got a weeping cherry I yanked out this past spring laying out back. I'll try to find a piece off that for the handle.
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Post by orrum on Dec 9, 2016 17:23:49 GMT -5
Now that would be pretty and add some color. THAT Blade Is Pedernales flint from Fredericksburg Tx. I hounded it myself.
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Post by NDK on Dec 9, 2016 19:24:34 GMT -5
Cool! What material is the point?
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Also what saw and blade are you using??? These are as slick as a baby's butt!!!
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