And they just keep on coming.......

This Snyders-hopewell point is made from heat-treated Georgetown flint. I made this at GLTAG

This Fairland point is made from heated Burlington chert.

One of my recent points

While I was doing a demonstration this weekend I made this small point. It is a mid-archiac style point and is made from heat-treated burlington chert that Larry Kinsella gave me.

Great Lakes Traditional Arts Gathering 2013

 This year's GLTAG, located on Drummond Island Michigan, was a great event. The full range of primitive skills are taught at this event, and is great for those who are already familiar with these skills or beginners. I had a great time and took pictures during many of my classes.
 My first class was the Stone Tool Practicum Symposium. The instructors were Larry Kinsella, Bob Love, and Bob Berg. We chopped down a dead tree that was culled last year when basket-makers took the bark off. We used handaxes, ground stone axes, and a copper axe to chop it down.

                                               Bob Berg uses a flint handaxe to start the cut.

                                      Larry Kinsella uses a ground stone axe to chop.

             Here is a video of Larry chopping with a stone axe. You can hear Bob Love in the background                   teaching the class about stone axes.

                       In this video, Larry uses the copper axe to make the final cuts in the tree.

Here is a picture of me knapping (third from left). Bob Love is on the far left.

Summer Solstice PITH

The PITH, or point in the hat, is an arrowhead trading event hosted on Paleoplanet. Here are pictures of the points that I recieved.

Summertime points

I was able to purchase a twenty-pound half nodule from Frank Stevens at a recent demonstration. So far, I have made two points from the spalls. Here are an Adena point and a Turkeytail.

  This is a Snyder's point that I made from heat-treated harvester chert. On this piece I used a metal pressure flaker to do the notches.

Wilder Creek Pig Roast and Demonstration.

I recently got to do a demonstration at Wilder Creek Conservation Club with Frank Stevens, a Michigan Flintknapper. We had a great time and I was able to purchase a killer horstone nodule off of him. Here are some pics of the display that I had set up.