#flintknapping

People always get confused whenever I say different kinds of glass have different personalities. But this one fought me at every single opportunity.

I've started collecting some of the prettier flakes, dulling the edges, and saving them.

Ripples and Waves

This is an old piece, one I made back in college, but still some of my favorite notching I've done.

Decided to challenge myself with one of the local stones. I believe it's a quartzite, possibly aventurine?

Whatever it is, it is Incredibly tough, I made this 2 days ago and my arm is still sore. My tools also took a beating.

The material is absolutely beautiful though, video and photos don't quite express how sparkly it is. I would love to try something a little more complex with the same stone once I can afford a kiln to heat treat it first. Iota and Mags also want to try grinding and polishing some of it, so expect to see this stone make a return.

I'm really liking the possibilities that have opened up now that i can pressure flake reliably.

This piece started drawing inspiration from the Kimberley projectile points of northwestern Australia (one of a number of cases of indigenous peoples utilizing the glass of a colonial power to produce knapped tools).

It ended up going in its own direction somewhat, but I love the result.

Ode to the Moon