your_comforting_company
02-18-2010, 10:10 PM
Brother Poco sent me some of them hillbilly rocks, like whut they gots up there in tennersee. well, I tells ya, thems some fine rocks he's growin up there. Don't look like much with the skin on. but it's real purty on the inside.
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Primitive%20Skills/knapping/DSCN2522.jpg
a few whacks with an antler billet peels it like a tater. the flake on the top right is about to be something... kinda like Crash's driftwood metaphor.. its just screaming "push me"
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Primitive%20Skills/knapping/DSCN2518.jpg
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Primitive%20Skills/knapping/DSCN2523.jpg
and so I did.
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Primitive%20Skills/knapping/DSCN2539.jpg
I'm adding it to my collection of "pride pieces" (not that I put any of them in a case or anything). I have a little space set aside in a cabinet where I keep the nice ones. here's a few recent pieces since my session with Craig. Today's piece dedicated to Poco is on top left.
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Primitive%20Skills/knapping/DSCN2538.jpg
So I must say THANK YOU POCO!! I, personally, have never had such good quality rock before. I haven't cooked it and it flakes like butter, it thins down really cleanly and holds up really well under my crude handling without breaking in half like the other half dozen I made this week that aren't pictured lol. For this to just be some rocks in the yard, If I had them, they would be like gold. I will share a flake or two with Craig and maybe have him make you something nice to send back your way. Thanks a lot Poco!! Really awesome rocks!!
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Primitive%20Skills/knapping/DSCN2522.jpg
a few whacks with an antler billet peels it like a tater. the flake on the top right is about to be something... kinda like Crash's driftwood metaphor.. its just screaming "push me"
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Primitive%20Skills/knapping/DSCN2518.jpg
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Primitive%20Skills/knapping/DSCN2523.jpg
and so I did.
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Primitive%20Skills/knapping/DSCN2539.jpg
I'm adding it to my collection of "pride pieces" (not that I put any of them in a case or anything). I have a little space set aside in a cabinet where I keep the nice ones. here's a few recent pieces since my session with Craig. Today's piece dedicated to Poco is on top left.
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Primitive%20Skills/knapping/DSCN2538.jpg
So I must say THANK YOU POCO!! I, personally, have never had such good quality rock before. I haven't cooked it and it flakes like butter, it thins down really cleanly and holds up really well under my crude handling without breaking in half like the other half dozen I made this week that aren't pictured lol. For this to just be some rocks in the yard, If I had them, they would be like gold. I will share a flake or two with Craig and maybe have him make you something nice to send back your way. Thanks a lot Poco!! Really awesome rocks!!