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The Flintknapper's Guide to rock is a CD book that describes essentially all of the various types of natural
stone used for the manufacture of flaked stone tools. The book is supported
by more than 100 color photos of various stone types and completed points
made from a wide variety of knappable material, including flint, chert,
agate, chalcedony, obsidian, opal and porcellanite. The book contains
chapters on geologic fundamentals, strategies for finding and obtaining
knappable stone, stone conservation and ethics, and an extensive section on
heat treatment of knappable stone. The appendix to the book contains
detailed information on more than 20 varieties of knappable stone. If you
are at all interested in the stone foundation for the art of flintknapping,
you’ll enjoy this book! Shipping in the USA is included.
This CD book is based on Adobe Acrobat software (free software) and works on
the CD drive of your computer (it does not work on a DVD player). The table
of contents is bookmarked so that navigation between various chapters and
sections of the book is simple and fast.
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Selected images from The Flintknapper's Guide to Rock |
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Obsidian outcrop at Glass Buttes, Oregon |
Chert deposit |
Jasper heat-treatment before/after |
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Interesting arrowhead made out of agatized palmwood from
Texas. The dots in the stone are fossilized remnants of the fibrous vascular
system for a long-dead palm tree. |
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Angostura-type blade made out of pumpkin obsidian from
Oregon. |
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L: 1.8 in.
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W: 1.1 in. |
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L: 3.7 in.
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W: 0.8 in. |
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Item # 4503 |
Price: $28.00
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Item # 4504 |
Price: $38.00
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Sharp and stylish arrowhead made out of agatized coral from
Florida! This particular piece of coral is very pretty, but it does not
display any of the polyp structure of the original coral. |
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Hardin-style blade made out of Biggs jasper from Oregon.
This material is actually silicified lake sediment that formed after a lake
was invaded by basalt lava about 12 million years ago. |
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L: 1.9 in.
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W: 0.9 in. |
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L: 3.6 in.
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W: 1.3 in. |
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Item # 4505 |
Price: $24.00
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Item # 4506 |
Price: $66.00
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Columbia Plateau-style arrowhead made out of Washington
jasper. This type of delicate arrowhead was made in the Washington and
Oregon area and is commonly referred to as a “Gem Point”. Note the
needle-sharp tip and barbs on this point! |
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Large rainbow obsidian corner-notch blade with a diagonal pressure flaking
pattern on both sides. This colorful obsidian comes from Davis Creek,
California. |
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L: 1.8 in.
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W: 1.1 in. |
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L: 9.1 in.
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W: 1.8 in. |
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| Item # 4507 |
Price: $28.00
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Item # 4508 |
Price: $24.00
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Unique Brazilian agate dovetail blade. This stone has a very
interesting color pattern! |
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Sharp side-notch point made out of striped jasper from
Oregon. |
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L: 2.8 in.
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W: 1.1 in. |
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L: 2.7 in.
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W: 0.7 in. |
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| Item # 4509 |
Price: $25.00
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Item # 4510 |
Price: $28.00
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Green rainbow obsidian dovetail blade made out of stone from
Mexico. This obsidian gives off a brilliant green color in reflected
sunlight. It has a nice parallel flaking pattern too! |
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Pretty base-notch point made out of translucent green
imperial jasper from Mexico. |
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L: 2.8 in.
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W: 1.3 in. |
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L: 1.8 in.
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W: 1.1 in. |
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| Item # 4511 |
Price: $34.00
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Item # 4512 |
Price: $24.00 |
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Dovetail-style blade made out of beige Oklahoma chert
(probably Burlington equivalent). |
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Nice serrated blade made out of Kentucky “blue” hornstone. |
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L: 3.5 in.
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W: 1.8 in. |
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L: 2.5 in.
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W: 1.1 in. |
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| Item # 4513 |
Price: $30.00 |
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Item # 4514 |
Price: $36.00
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Adena-style stemmed blade made out of striped Oregon jasper. |
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Stylish side-notch blade made out of colorful “High Ridge”
Burlington chert from Missouri. |
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L: 3.3 in.
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W: 1.5 in. |
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L: 3.5 in.
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W: .9 in.
T: .25 in. |
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| Item # 4515 |
Price: $38.00
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Item # 4516 |
Price: $38.00
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This interesting point is made out of a single large crystal
of rutilated quartz from Brazil. The faint, hair-like lines within this
water-clear quartz are needles of the mineral rutile (titanium oxide). Many
of the flake scars on this point show “stair-step” surfaces that result from
the flakes crossing the crystal lattice of the quartz at a relatively flat
angle. This is a fascinating specimen point. |
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Agate Basin-style blade in mottled “High Ridge” Burlington
chert from Missouri. This is a percussion blade with only light pressure
flaking on the edges. |
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L: 2.1 in.
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W: 1.1 in. |
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L: 4.6 in.
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W: 1.3 in. |
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Price: $28.00
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Item # 4518 |
Price: $25.00
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Unique stemmed blade crafted out of red and orange jasper
from Oregon. |
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Agee-style point made out of Paiute agate from southeast
Oregon. This Agee is very well made and is at the upper limit of size for
its type.
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L: 3.1 in.
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W: 1.6 in. |
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L: 2.5 in.
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W: 1.0 in. |
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| Item # 4519 |
Price: $50.00
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Item # 4520 |
Price: $15.00
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Spectacular dovetail-type blade made out of complex Oregon
jasper. This blade is impressive in the hand has a very nice oblique flaking
pattern on both sides. |
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Base-notch arrowhead made out of striped jasp-agate from
Oregon. Note the unusual spots in the stone. I think this material looks
like the surface of the planet Jupiter.
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L: 4.4 in.
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W: 1.2 in. |
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L: 1.7 in.
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W: 1.2 in. |
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Display Point
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Three arrowhead-sized points made out of rare Owyhee Blue
Opal from southeastern Oregon. Note the striking ice-blue color of this
beautiful stone. |
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This thin replica of a Snyders Point is crafted out of “High Ridge”
Burlington chert from Missouri. |
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This beautiful Scottsbluff-style point is made out of Montana moss agate. |
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This Clovis replica is made out of classic Burlington chert from southern
Missouri. |
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This spectacular carnelian agate blade is in the personal collection of
Carolyn Johnson. It appears on the October page of the 2008 Flintknapping
calendar. |
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This dovetail-style blade is made out of banded flint from Poland. |
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This thin pressure-flaked blade is made out of a tabular piece of chert from
Texas. Blade length is 11.4 inches. |
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This spectacular dovetail-type point is made out of rare fire obsidian from
Glass Buttes, Oregon. The colors result from light reflecting off of micro-thin
layers within the volcanic glass. |
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This stemmed blade is made out of very striking striped jasp-agate
from northern Oregon. |
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This Hardin-style point is made out of colorful jasper from northern Oregon. |
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This side-notch blade is made out of classic Knife River
Flint from North Dakota. Note the deep honey-colored translucency of this
wonderful stone. |
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This Clovis-style point is made out of Hixton orthoquartzite from Wisconsin. The
dark spots are inclusions of iron pyrite. |
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This replica of a Cahokia tri-notch point is made out of
petrified palmwood from Texas. |
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This bevel-edged percussion blade is crafted out of green silicified volcanic
ash from southwest Idaho. |
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