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Paleoarts Interfector Viris Spurii Offline it don't mean a thing if you aint got that sling! Posts: 1993 oceanside, CA Gender:	PRIMITIVE AXES, CELTS, AND TOMOHAWKS Sep 19^th, 2009 at 3:36pm here's my latest tomohawk. heat treated novaculite head, douglas fir handle, and gut hafting.
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aztec Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 858 Gender:	Re: stone axe Reply #1 - Sep 19^th, 2009 at 5:57pm sweet tommy hawk! you just keep outdoing yourself
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Paleoarts Interfector Viris Spurii Offline it don't mean a thing if you aint got that sling! Posts: 1993 oceanside, CA Gender:	Re: stone axe Reply #2 - Sep 19^th, 2009 at 6:06pm thanks, man.
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slinger87 Funditor Offline I bet I can throw a rock farther then you can! Posts: 731 MI Gender:	Re: stone axe Reply #3 - Sep 19^th, 2009 at 6:43pm yea, like all your other stuff, it looks amazing!
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dork Funditor Offline I feel Smurfy when I'm smurfing!!!! You too? Posts: 995 In Beautiful Wisconsin Gender:	Re: stone axe Reply #4 - Sep 20^th, 2009 at 7:26pm I challenge you to make something ugly and porly crafted. I bet you can't do it. Everything you have made so far is text book perfect or better. Keep up the good work you seem to have found your outlet.
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Paleoarts Interfector Viris Spurii Offline it don't mean a thing if you aint got that sling! Posts: 1993 oceanside, CA Gender:	Re: stone axe Reply #5 - Sep 20^th, 2009 at 7:55pm thanks Dork, but i've made plenty of crap before. you just wont be seeing any pictures of them.
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aztec Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 858 Gender:	Re: stone axe Reply #6 - Sep 20^th, 2009 at 10:27pm ^^id say post the pics anyways but i know how it feels. you guys wouldnt belive the 1st clubs i made... lol
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Kjev Senior Member Offline Limits exist only in your mind Posts: 299	Re: stone axe Reply #7 - Sep 26^th, 2009 at 6:39am Ahh yes. I have a corner of my work bench full of. . . .not really failures. More like "attempts and ideas that were better in my head than in reality." or as Paleoarts put, "crap." Most of them still exist because they will probably get turned into something else, or the garbage can was full. K'Jev
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Paleoarts Interfector Viris Spurii Offline it don't mean a thing if you aint got that sling! Posts: 1993 oceanside, CA Gender:	Re: stone axe Reply #8 - Sep 28^th, 2009 at 1:09pm totally! i save EVERYTHING! i can't tell you how many times i've turned a failure at one thing into something completely different and awesome.
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me2 Descens Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 161	Re: stone axe Reply #9 - Sep 29^th, 2009 at 7:29pm How do you heat treat novaculit and what is the purpose? What changes before and after the treatment?
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TN.Frank Funditor Offline Throwin' sticks and stones. Posts: 682 Crossville, TN. U.S.A. Gender:	Re: stone axe Reply #10 - Sep 29^th, 2009 at 7:31pm me2 wrote on Sep 29^th, 2009 at 7:29pm: How do you heat treat novaculit and what is the purpose? What changes before and after the treatment? Same question. I thought stone didn't need to be heat treated.
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Re: stone axe
Reply #11 - Sep 29^th, 2009 at 9:47pm

certain types of knappable stone benefit from heat treatment and others don't. obsidian, for example, is the closest thing to glass there is and isn't really affected by heat treatment (it doesn't need it, either). novaculite is a chalkier, softer stone that, when treated, becomes more homogeneous and easier to work. it flakes better and doesn't shatter as easily. many modern knappers heat treat stone in small kilns, but the traditional way is to lay down a bed of sand, place your spalls on it and cover with more sand, then slowly build a fire on top distributing the coals evenly. you have to wait until the fire is completely out and the stones are back to air temp before you uncover them or they might crack. many types of stone undergo some wild color changes in this proccess. archeaologist have found heat treated stone going back tens of thousands of years so this isn't anything new.

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Camo-sling Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Forge your own path. Posts: 1419 Australia Gender:	Re: stone axe Reply #12 - Sep 30^th, 2009 at 7:14am dork wrote on Sep 20^th, 2009 at 7:26pm: I challenge you to make something ugly and porly crafted. I bet you can't do it. Is this offer available to other forum members? Cos I can totally nail it.
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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4807 new to california Gender:	Re: stone axe Reply #13 - Sep 30^th, 2009 at 4:31pm Camo-sling wrote on Sep 30^th, 2009 at 7:14am: dork wrote on Sep 20^th, 2009 at 7:26pm: I challenge you to make something ugly and porly crafted. I bet you can't do it. Is this offer available to other forum members? Cos I can totally nail it. just take a look at my desk and you are all PWNED
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Re: stone axe
Reply #14 - Oct 3^rd, 2009 at 10:40am

beautiful

But what is novaculite ?

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Novaculite is a form of chert or flint found in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma and in the Marathon Uplift of Texas. Novaculite is considered to be highly siliceous sediments and may be a product of the low-grade metamorphism of chert beds. The strata were deposited in the Devonian Period and subjected to uplift and folding during the Ouachita orogeny of the Pennsylvanian/Permian Periods. Novaculite is very resistant to erosion and the layers of novaculite stand out as ridges in the Ouachita Mountains.

Novaculite is a form of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz. The color varies from white to grey-black and the specific gravity shows an increase from 2.2 to 2.5. The very hard dense rock is used as a whetstone. It has been mined since prehistoric times both as material for use as arrow and spear points and as sharpening stones.

The word novaculite is derived from the Latin word novacula, for razor stone.

Ya see and there's me initially thinking it was some kind of man made flint substitute lol

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