Trading points with other flintknappers is fun!

 I, as a flintknapper, enjoy the stone tools other people make nearly as much as my own. I host a trading event on Paleoplanet forums four times a year, which allows people to trade with random partners. However, I do like to trade with specific people, especially if I have developed a friendship with them. Several months ago I approached a knapper by the name of James if he would like make a trade. I know James through several Facebook pages and I got to meet him in person at the Flint Ridge knap-in in Ohio. He was glad to trade with me, and I recently got a package from him. We agreed to make each other points of the same style, which was the Agate Basin point. Enjoy the eye candy!

This is the first Agate Basin point that I got from James. It is made from heat treated Arkansas novaculite.

A view showing the diamond cross-section of this point.

The second Agate Basin point. It is from the same material.

This point's cross section is more bi-convex. Both cross-sections are exhibited in aboriginal examples.

A beautiful Snyders point put on a necklace. Heat treated Ohio Flint Ridge flint was used. Look at those stripes!

A small, tri-notched arrowpoint knapped from raw Red Desert Agate.

This point and the one beneath it are made of raw Wyoming chert. This material has been named Tiger chert and Wyoming Oil chert as well. This is tough material.

This tiny points are Agee points, a style from Arkansas and the surrounding area. The smaller one on the left is made out of novaculite, which was heat treated. The one on the right was made from Flint River chert from Georgia. Surprisingly, some of the old Agee points found were made this small.

Thank you James for the points and the rocks!