Absolutely Thrilled!

[thehunter123]

Hey y’all! I know I know...this blade does have a broken tip. Regardless of the missing tip, this is one of the coolest pieces I’ve ever found. It is made out of a piece of native, gemmy blue-green feldspar. I have never seen a point, blade or any other artifact made from this material. If any of you have a background in geology, you’ll know that feldspar has perfect cleavage, meaning that with each knap, the creator of this piece created a perfectly flat break in the stone. I can’t imagine how difficult this material was to work with.

Thanks for taking a look!

 

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[Gaspipe]

Boy not seeing it

 

[thehunter123]

Pics definitely don’t do it justice. It’s very clearly a blade of some sort with the tip broken. Feldspar is a difficult material to photograph in a way that shows off the perfect cleavage.

 

[Out Of Time]

Absolutely beautiful. That feldspar is something else.

Working a beautiful, but problematic (hard to knapp) material could only be a labor of love.

 

[Kray Gelder]

Not sure about it being a blade. I think natives used materials that would give them a nice conchoidal fracture, which is how they obtained an edge sharper than today's razors. 90 degree breaks, would never produce a useful edge.

 

[thehunter123]

Kray-what is so neat about this piece is the fact that the edges are razor sharp-literally as sharp as a paring knife and by far the sharpest edges of any points/knives/blades from my entire collection. Feldspar, when thinned, actually can produce a razor sharp edge that is much more durable than quartz. I just can’t imagine how long it must have taken to complete a piece like this given the fracture and hardness of the material.