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Auger with hole

Below is a dacite Auger needle with a hole through it for the threading of sewing material. In the past Bill has put bigger holes through knife blades(which I need to get pictures of on here) but he has never tried it on an Auger needle. These needles are very delicate and getting a hole through without breaking is not easy.

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Dan Nicholas Jubilee

Here are a few pictures of our table at the Dan Nicholas fall jubilee.

Clovis

This clovis is made of english flint. It is 8 inches long 2 1/2 inches wide and I estimate it ranges from 3/8 to 1/2 inch thick.(did not measure it with fowler gauge). It is fluted on both sides, one is 3 inches and the other is 2 inches. The top picture shows the flute spalls. It was fluted by free hand percussion using the atlatl method.

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Tried to get a picture where flute is easier to see with this one.

Mammoth Clovis #2

Below is another Mammoth Clovis Bill recently made. This Clovis is 10 3/4 inches long, 4 inches wide and fluted on both sides. Both flutes are 3 1/2 inches long and one is 3 inches wide and the other 2 3/4 inches wide. The blade is .76 inches thick and at the end of the flute it is .425 inches thick and .29 inches thick at the beginning of the flute. So the W/T ratio's are 5.3/1 normal, 9.4/1 at end of flute and 13.8/1 at the beginning of the flute.

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Mammoth Clovis fluted on side 2

Here is the other side of the mammoth clovis which was fluted today. Bill wasn't satisfied with the flute because it only ran about 2 inches. We have a video of the fluting on our YouTube channel.

 

Here is a picture of the platform.

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Mammoth Clovis with flute platform

Below is a 11 inch long 4 inch wide Clovis with a 3 1/2 inch flute. The other picture shows the platform for the flute. This flute was done by percussion.We are considering fluting the other side, what do yall think, should we go for it?