Jim Miller
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Item # 4500 Price: $17.95      

 

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.

 
Selected images from The Flintknapper's Guide to Rock

Obsidian outcrop at Glass Buttes, Oregon

Chert deposit

Jasper heat-treatment before/after

         
Retail Point Gallery      
Item # 4501 Price: $50.00 - Sold   Item # 4502 Price: $22.00 - Sold

Spectacular dovetail blade made out of banded jasper from Oregon. This point has excellent symmetry and flaking, plus deep notching and beautiful stone.  

Stylish arrowhead made out of interesting Montana agate.
L: 3.2 in. W: 1.1 in.    L: 2.1 in. W: 0.9 in. 

Item # 4503

 Price: $42.00   Item # 4504 Price: $32.00 - New

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.  

Adena-style stemmed blade made out of striped Oregon jasper.
L: 2.1 in. W: 1.1 in.    L: 3.3 in. W: 1.5 in. 

Item # 4505

 Price: $30.00 - New   Item # 4506 Price: $42.00 - Reduced

Nice corner-notch blade made out of deep red jasper from Washington State. The jasper has seams of gray agate and some small crystal pockets for interest. This is a percussion blade with pressure flaking on the edges and notches.  

Stemmed knife blade made out of translucent Knife River flint from North Dakota.
L: 3.3 in. W: 1.9 in.    L: 4.2 in. W: 1.1 in. 
Item # 4507 Price: $24.00   Item # 4508 Price: $36.00 - Reduced

Nice serrated blade made out of Kentucky “blue” hornstone.  

Super nice Scottsbluff-style blade made out of highly dendritic agate from Nevada.
L: 2.5 in. W: 1.1 in.    L: 2.6 in. W: 1.1 in.
Item # 4509 Price: $22.00 - Sold   Item # 4510 Price: $34.00 - Sold

Stylish dovetail made out of striped obsidian from Glass Buttes, Oregon.  

Deeply notched blade in Pedernales flint from Texas. This is a nice, symmetrical percussion blade with curved notches made by punch flaking.
L: 3.2 in. W: 1.3 in.   L: 3.5 in. W: 1.9 in. 
Item # 4511 Price: $30.00   Item # 4512 Price: $20.00 - Sold


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.
 		  

Pelican Lake-style corner-notch point made out of Frisco chalcedony from Oklahoma.
L: 2.5 in. W: 1.0 in.    L: 2.3 in. W: 1.1 in. 
Item # 4513 Price: $20.00 - Sold   Item # 4514 Price: $36.00 - Reduced

Pretty base-notch point made out of carnelian agate from Brazil.  

Stylish side-notch blade made out of colorful “High Ridge” Burlington chert from Missouri.
L: 2.0 in. W: 1.1 in.    L: 3.5 in. W: .9 in.      T: .25 in.
Item # 4515 Price: $28.00 - Reduced   Item # 4516 Price: $40.00 - Reduced

Unique stemmed blade crafted out of red and orange jasper from Oregon.  

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.
L: 3.1 in. W: 1.6 in.    L: 4.6 in. W: 1.3 in. 
Item # 4517 Price: $28.00 - Sold      

This Plainview-style point is made out of Biggs jasper from north-central Oregon. This material is actually silicified lake sediment.      
L: 3 in. W: 0.9 in.       

 
Display Point Gallery      
         

Three arrowhead-sized points made out of rare Owyhee Blue Opal from southeastern Oregon. Note the striking ice-blue color of this beautiful stone.  

This thin replica of a Snyders Point is crafted out of “High Ridge” Burlington chert from Missouri.
         
         

This beautiful Scottsbluff-style point is made out of Montana moss agate.  

This Clovis replica is made out of classic Burlington chert from southern Missouri.
         
         

This spectacular carnelian agate blade is in the personal collection of Carolyn Johnson. It appears on the October page of the 2008 Flintknapping calendar.  

This dovetail-style blade is made out of banded flint from Poland.
         
         

This thin pressure-flaked blade is made out of a tabular piece of chert from Texas. Blade length is 11.4 inches.  

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.
         
         

This stemmed blade is made out of very striking striped jasp-agate from northern Oregon.  

This Hardin-style point is made out of colorful jasper from northern Oregon.
         
         

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.  

This Clovis-style point is made out of Hixton orthoquartzite from Wisconsin. The dark spots are inclusions of iron pyrite.
         
         

This replica of a Cahokia tri-notch point is made out of petrified palmwood from Texas.  

This bevel-edged percussion blade is crafted out of green silicified volcanic ash from southwest Idaho.
         
 

 

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