Arrowhead Thread

footfootfoot · 12-01-2011, 10:13 PM

I'm gonna put my arrowheads here for now.

Since getting all paleolithic I remembered something from 1979, when I was 19 and bicycling through Vermont with my pal, Alan. We were headed from Brattleboro to Bennington across Rt. 9 and we'd made it almost to Searsburg Mountain when we ran into a friend of Alan's who told us Bennington kind of sucked and not to bother biking up the mountain, but to head back to the infinitely more groovy B'boro.

So we turned around and headed back over Hogsback Mountain where we stopped to check out the view. which really hasn't changed much in 30 something years.

Being cheeky teens, we held contempt for tourists and their vistas, and souvenir stores, especially if they drove to them. We were quite special and held ourselves in high regard.

We pull up to the mountain top gift shop at just about where the truck is parked in this photo I found on the internets. (It really looked just like this)

Being an obnoxious card I started shouting excitedly in my tourist-child mocking voice, "Daddy, Daddy, LOOK! I found an arrowhead!" I bent over and snatched a stone from the ground without looking at it and held my prize up. Alan looked over and laughed, knowing the ironic absurdity of the thought of arrowheads, here on top of Hogsback mountain, one of the most heavily traveled roads in Vermont at the time. (Arrows? I didn't even see the Indians) It would be as incongruous as buying maple syrup in a little log cabin shaped bottle in a tourist shop in Tucson. Silly. While enjoying the moment I noticed that the stone felt unusual. I looked at it for the first time and saw that I had picked up an arrowhead.

I can think of several simple explanations for how it got there. And why I chose to say "arrowhead" instead of "geode" or "civil war musket ball"? Perhaps I subconsciously saw it? Most likely.

Whatever, it was pretty cool. Here is a scan of the arrowhead along with my first glass arrowhead.

Flint knapping may happen tomorrow.

footfootfoot · 12-01-2011, 10:16 PM

Note, the scan is embiggened to show texture. The actual size is about an inch.
same for this glass point.

classicman · 12-01-2011, 10:21 PM

nice!

footfootfoot · 12-01-2011, 10:22 PM

Here is the scale. Actual size if you have a 96dpi monitor

zippyt · 12-01-2011, 10:25 PM

Cool !!

glatt · 12-02-2011, 07:20 AM

So you used a carriage bolt to do the glass knapping?

Didn't the Indians use a stick?

xoxoxoBruce · 12-02-2011, 07:54 AM

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury... how could my client possibly have made the murder weapon, when lab analysis says it's 400 million years old?

Griff · 12-02-2011, 08:35 AM

I went to the gift shop via Google Earth to see if that was the place with the awesome burgers from long ago and far away... it isn't.

infinite monkey · 12-02-2011, 08:37 AM

You should sell them. Call them Knappy Heads.

Very cool.

(I'm still waiting to hear from my brother. I'm sorry.)

footfootfoot · 12-11-2011, 05:09 PM

I could have sworn I posted this already, but maybe not. I think chrome crashed and I got distracted by shiny things.

My first arrow:

classicman · 12-11-2011, 05:19 PM

Very cool!

ZenGum · 12-11-2011, 06:02 PM

Would it win a fight against an A-10 Warthog?

footfootfoot · 12-11-2011, 07:20 PM

There's only one way to find out. Here, hold my beer...

Big Sarge · 12-11-2011, 08:14 PM

Wow 3F. We have been messing with knapping for quite awhile and you have already outclassed us. Freakin fantastic

xoxoxoBruce · 12-11-2011, 11:36 PM

Preservation, he's surrounded by dangerous critters.

12-01-2011, 10:13 PM	#1
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Arrowhead Thread I'm gonna put my arrowheads here for now. Since getting all paleolithic I remembered something from 1979, when I was 19 and bicycling through Vermont with my pal, Alan. We were headed from Brattleboro to Bennington across Rt. 9 and we'd made it almost to Searsburg Mountain when we ran into a friend of Alan's who told us Bennington kind of sucked and not to bother biking up the mountain, but to head back to the infinitely more groovy B'boro. So we turned around and headed back over Hogsback Mountain where we stopped to check out the view. which really hasn't changed much in 30 something years. Being cheeky teens, we held contempt for tourists and their vistas, and souvenir stores, especially if they drove to them. We were quite special and held ourselves in high regard. We pull up to the mountain top gift shop at just about where the truck is parked in this photo I found on the internets. (It really looked just like this) Being an obnoxious card I started shouting excitedly in my tourist-child mocking voice, "Daddy, Daddy, LOOK! I found an arrowhead!" I bent over and snatched a stone from the ground without looking at it and held my prize up. Alan looked over and laughed, knowing the ironic absurdity of the thought of arrowheads, here on top of Hogsback mountain, one of the most heavily traveled roads in Vermont at the time. (Arrows? I didn't even see the Indians) It would be as incongruous as buying maple syrup in a little log cabin shaped bottle in a tourist shop in Tucson. Silly. While enjoying the moment I noticed that the stone felt unusual. I looked at it for the first time and saw that I had picked up an arrowhead. I can think of several simple explanations for how it got there. And why I chose to say "arrowhead" instead of "geode" or "civil war musket ball"? Perhaps I subconsciously saw it? Most likely. Whatever, it was pretty cool. Here is a scan of the arrowhead along with my first glass arrowhead. Flint knapping may happen tomorrow. Attached Images __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

12-01-2011, 10:16 PM	#2
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Note, the scan is embiggened to show texture. The actual size is about an inch. same for this glass point. Attached Images __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

12-01-2011, 10:21 PM	#3
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	nice! __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

12-01-2011, 10:22 PM	#4
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Here is the scale. Actual size if you have a 96dpi monitor Attached Images __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

12-01-2011, 10:25 PM	#5
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	Cool !! __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

12-02-2011, 07:20 AM	#6
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	So you used a carriage bolt to do the glass knapping? Didn't the Indians use a stick?

12-02-2011, 07:54 AM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Ladies and gentlemen of the jury... how could my client possibly have made the murder weapon, when lab analysis says it's 400 million years old? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-02-2011, 08:35 AM	#8
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I went to the gift shop via Google Earth to see if that was the place with the awesome burgers from long ago and far away... it isn't. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

12-02-2011, 08:37 AM	#9
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	You should sell them. Call them Knappy Heads. Very cool. (I'm still waiting to hear from my brother. I'm sorry.)

12-11-2011, 05:09 PM	#10
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	I could have sworn I posted this already, but maybe not. I think chrome crashed and I got distracted by shiny things. My first arrow: Attached Images __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

12-11-2011, 05:19 PM	#11
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Very cool! __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

12-11-2011, 06:02 PM	#12
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Would it win a fight against an A-10 Warthog? __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

12-11-2011, 07:20 PM	#13
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	There's only one way to find out. Here, hold my beer... __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

12-11-2011, 08:14 PM	#14
Big Sarge Werepandas - lurking in your shadows Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: In the Deep South Posts: 3,408	Wow 3F. We have been messing with knapping for quite awhile and you have already outclassed us. Freakin fantastic __________________ Give a man a match, & he'll be warm for 20 seconds. But toss that man a white phosphorus grenade and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

12-11-2011, 11:36 PM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Preservation, he's surrounded by dangerous critters. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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