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Originally Posted by dadof18x'er (Post 407314)

my son made this obsidian blade the other day, he said it's all natural even the glue.

Excellent, looks like snakeblocker did it himself!

btw: Love your picture. I experimented with a fork when about that age and turned half the wall black...hehe

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Originally Posted by dadof18x'er (Post 407314)

my son made this obsidian blade the other day, he said it's all natural even the glue.

Nice looking knife!!

Looks like your son has that innate desire to "break rock".....onward and upward!

Bet he can skin a cat with that blade.
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Carl

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Originally Posted by JJ_BPK (Post 405102)

Bill

I watched all 6 videos,, impressed is not the word,, in awl,, is still weak. :eek:

Does Jim "see" a blade in the stone or does his talents,, and a little luck "find" the blade as he shapes the stone??

Also, is there a use for a blade that big??

Heavy blades also can be chopping tools, hand axes and that kind of thing.
Since the first known peoples of North America did not have pick up trucks good working stone was reduced for packing home the results are what modern archeologists call preforms.
It's better to have broken a possible stone tool at the quarry than to have packed it long distances and find the flaw later.

This was probably not a ceremonial point: http://lithiccastinglab.com/cast-pag...rutzclovis.htm