u/owlcreeklithics

Ask me questions right now about them. Or else…

Biface made w hammerstone, notched w mammoth ivory punch and one pass of antler pressure flakes to finish it off. For sale $60 DM.

Siberian wooly mammoth tusk. Ivory is chemically made of the mineral dentin, which is what the inside of your teeth are. Teeth differ from ivory in that they are generally house inside of an outer enamel coating. Teeth knapping!

Left is cooked Burlington and right is raw Nethers. This Nethers is the single best raw piece of stone i have ever worked. All done with direct hammerstone percussion using sandstone.

I actually made so much stuff this weekend I lost track of my total count after about 6 hrs in. Every single thing in this image I made since Thursday. Fresh stock, new ideas, and inspiration from the knap in have got me on a roll.

Michelangelo didn’t make his David by practicing only on the weekends. And thus neither shall I.

EDIT: I did not clarify. This is *SOME* of the stuff I made at the knap in. I gifted a bunch away, traded and sold points, almost certainly lost a couple to others buckets and besides, I couldn’t fit any more in my hand if I tried lmao. This is a heavy maybe half of what I made.

Yes, I am aware of the madman I am. The MOST aware.

I think it’s even funnier if I don’t elaborate to be honest…

Bottom one made by me, top one Dennis Blankenship(Coopers Creek Lithics). Made of green phosphor glass, sometimes called Kryptonite. Really interesting material, and so bright it will cast shadows in a dark room.

EDIT: there is no light of any kind being shone on the objects in this picture. They are charged in light, just like a glow in the dark toy, and reemit the absorbed energy at a single, consistent wavelength over a much longer period of time than your average phosphorescent rubber ducky. So bright that for a while you could legitimately navigate a dark room with it. Cool stuff.

Huge shoutout to Glassblower John at the coshocton knap in for letting me knap his rock. I got to break some big rock, and he got a dozen big bifaces out of it.

Come see me!!!

From glacial till in NE Ohio. Really interesting and complex geological region. Cool rock!