This five and a half inch Tiger Chert knife took longer than most. I started it yesterday but it wore me down. I went back out today and managed to finish the knife. I have knapped a lot of tiger chert and it is always strong. This particular rock is tougher than most Tiger Chert.
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Fantastic point RonTN formerly CT Visit our store http://stores.arrowheads.com/store.p...m-Trading-Post
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Excellent work Ron, the flaking is beautiful! That stone though tough, makes some beautiful work. And good job getting the lighting right to show the flaking in the photo wich is a skill all in itself... Thanks for sharing!Josh (Ky/Tn collector)
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Great work for me I would like to see the banding very few pieces I have seenLook to the ground for it holds the past!
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Thanks Chase, This Tiger Chert does have banding. When this Knife develops a patina the banding will show but we might have to wait for that. The rock that I took this from had very contrasting stripes in the patina.Last edited by Ron Kelley; 06-09-2018, 06:02 PM.
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Hey Chase, I went out and took a picture of one part of my patination experiment: See the post below.
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That flaking is very uniform...the mark of a craftsman...I dont doubt that one day the ancients will contact you...if they have not already...great work Ron...Last edited by BabaORiley; 06-09-2018, 06:35 PM.The chase is better than the catch...
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I will do more to show the progress of my Tiger Chert patination experiment tomorrow. This will give you some idea of what twenty months in open air exposed to the sun will do to the stone. My next part of the experiment is to bury the pieces in a black soil wet area for a year.
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Ron that’s a beautiful artful piece . I can’t inagine even making on flake . Love the lithic !
you know I have a knife about 3in out of Chert .
when I pulled it out it was greys and yellow . Now
1 year later it’s white..ish.
But I believe it was over heat treated as the point feels
very brittle . Then you can see where they resharpened the sides it’s not pressure flakes but flakes lateral . So brittle
I’ll send you a pic later for just experimental knowledge .
I just put that together from peoples posts. If I put it in water it gets its color back .
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Yeah I would love to see it . Wayne bought me a omax microscope . Looking at some things under it .
Diatoms ... can’t wait to download them and post .
I know nothing of litichs and fossils .
Time to learn 😊
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What jasper looks like under it is a Jimmy Hendrix experience lol you will see . And what I thought was jasper is a red quartzite Chert .
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