This is stone age stuff. Making weapons with sticks and stones and bones. Clicks usually are caused by something minor but important happening. In this case it was the way I was flaking. Basically I wasn't putting in the time to build a platform by abrading before I tried to take a flake off. Once I did this I greatly improved. At that moment I realized the results were immensely improved. So here are a few points and a few blurbs about them.
This is a novaculite point. The red and gray isn't all that typical and I attribute that to why I went so slow and careful with this one. This was also one of the first times I had notched a point like this.
I took this little piece of obsidian and worked with it some and this made a right sharp little point. It's a little stout but the rock it came from wouldn't allow for a longer point.
This is a spear or atlatl point that I made. It is by far the biggest point I've ever made and the only reason I attempted it was because I figured if I broke it there would be enough material to make an arrowhead left.
This is a small obsidian point. I broke ears off a couple times accidentally but that's fine. It just has a nice long base for mounting to an arrow. I gave this one to my cousin cause she thought it was pretty.
I visited an old nemesis with this point. Glass bottle bottoms make beautiful points but before I had such a hard time dealing with the curve of the glass. On this one it was like I had been doing this for years. It just came naturally to me and I made this point to go on an arrow for a friend.
I was so happy with the previous bottle bottom that I grabbed a larger bottle and made another point to make sure it wasn't a fluke. I guess it wasn't. I made this one this morning and I tried to go a little quicker and it still took over an hour but I ended up with this point which I am pleased with. I'll give this away as I don't plan to mount it to a hunting arrow.
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