Knapping Material

[snakewrangler]

Im starting to get into knapping and im looking for some knapping material. Living in North Georgia its hard to find good knapping quality rocks. Do yall know of any locations that i can find some chert or flint? I have family near Savanha, GA. Any ideas or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Kyle

[rayjeri]

Kyle:
Savannah river agate just south of Girard, on the east end of River road is geat knapping material.

Ray

[jcinpc]

ditto what he said, hear they cleared some acreage there and its laying all around. OR fiind you some spots inthe Flint and dive for some of that Flint River candy, its in Augusta too some real nice what they call Briar creek chert, heats real nice, its a coastal plains which Ga. is full of. Theres a guy named Dave Swetmon up your way that puts onthe N Ga. kanp-in every year, I`ll see if I can find his info for ya.

[snakewrangler]

Thanks for the info! Somebody else told me to work with old thick glass bottles till i got the hang of knapping. Have yall heard of this before?

[arappaho]

Yep, Kyle, there are alot of old thick types of glass you can use.
Old bottles and plate glass windows. Just about obsidian.
And there's "johnstone". Just about any part of an old toilet tank
is good practice material. Hard to make a nice clean point but
the price is right.
Like has all ready been said, in your area, Georgia, the most
abundant local material will be one form or another of the coastal
plains chert. Get to know what the animal looks like. It's called
agate, flint, and chert depending on the area. The Flint River
material seems to be the best knapping material, but making a
trip to the Girard spot mentioned above would be a great place
to develope an eye for it.

Several other members of the board have started knapping
lately, too, so you aren't alone. Saskrock has a section for
Artifacts on his Tropical Estevan Rock Club Site;
estevanrock.proboards.com/index.cgi

He has listed alot of links for great knapping tutorial videos.
Including one with beer bottles!

Good Luck. GOGGLES AND GLOVES!!!
Joe

[colorshapetexture]

Joe will set you right on the Savannah Chert. From what he says it is a challenge if you just try to use it as it is found. But he throws it in the bottom of a fire for a day and then heats it in the fire, or some thing and it comes out to be good knapp material. Have seen bottles knapped. Some quite beautiful. And they say its a great learning tool.
Tryed it myself and after blood all over. Hey I didnt give up with just 2 cuts and beatin the hell out of my leg with a rock. I cut the heck out of one of the knuckles again and knocked myself in the leg real hard again. Or shall I say the last time. Thought about it a second and decided to give up on home made arrows and stick with 45 ACP rounds. They fit in the gun EZer. Jim

[4cornersrocks]

If you have any ancient tube television sets the glass from the screens is supposed to knap well.

Our local rock shop sells 1/2" thick obsidian slabs for knapping as well as flint and fiber optic material (synthetic cats eye).

[jcinpc]

if your new to knapping then check out this forum, there are some fine knappers and alot of new ones as well. They will help you through any stages of your learning. There are threads on slag glass bottles bottoms toilet tanks etc. Resource areas for rock, I have a post on the beginers sections or resource on how I cook my coral with sand and charcoal.

paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/

[snakewrangler]

Thanks for all the information and the forums!!! I have the whole week off for Thanksgiving and I plan to get some hunting and some knapping, learning experience any way, done through the week.

Thanks again,
Kyle

[ghostrecon]

I've got access to a whole mountaintop of high grade chert. It's pretty hard stone that works well with copper tools. The only problem is the size of the cobbles, they're pretty small, mostly baseball sized. I need to find some big chunks to get some larger preforms knapped out. Anyway if your interested in some maybe we could work out a trade?