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[melvinrose]

Hi all! My name is Melvin Rose. I am a flint knapper, I make arrowheads. I have been using a 10” tile saw to cut my slabs with for the last few years. I finally saved up enough to get me a lapidary saw. I bought a used Highland Park 18”, 2021 year model. It’s in great condition and the previous owner said it has 45 hours on it. I don’t know what they were sawing with it and I didn’t think to ask. Anyway I inherited 2 gallons of sludge with the saw so it’s been used enough to create that. It came with H/P mineral oil which I cleaned and am still using. I have a lot to learn, I’ll be asking lots of questions I’m sure. I’ll be cutting mostly obsidians and Texas churts. Glad to be here.

[vitzitziltecpatl]

Welcome aboard!

An 18" is a nice size saw. Hope to see photos of your work.

[lithicbeads]

Welcome and have fun.

[AgateLicker]

Welcome, Melvin! Looking forward to seeing those TX rocks. I just moved to the Hill Country and am loving the Uvalde gravels and Edwards Plateau stuff.

Side question- is EP chert the same as Georgetown Flint?

[melvinrose]

good question. The bad news is I don’t know. The good news is I’ll find out. I have several hundred pounds of Georgetown and it’s wonderful stuff. I live in San Angelo so I have access to all kinds of Edwards chert but most of it is nasty stuff. Sometimes I stumble onto a hunk that’s not all cracked up.

[melvinrose]

Here’s what I found out, “ Georgetown flint is a fairly localized material from the Edwards Limestone formation that occurs in primary context in the only in Williamson County and probably in southern Bell County.” This is from www.texasbeyondhistory.net

[lithicbeads]

Ever seen the flint nodules from the chalk cliffs in England. There is so much of it that they used to cover houses with  m
ortared flint.