Breccia Pipe

[ToddsPoint]

I found this piece of glacial till breccia at the local river. There are old unused gravel pits in many locations.

I polished the end a bit and saw it had potential. I know the white material is quartz but I’m unsure about the grey and the red. It could be chert.??

I cut some slabs off of it and made several cabs. I have enough material to make lots of cabs. The red material is gem like. Breccia is formed from redeposited material so it could be anything.

I cut a preform to make a small pipe and marked it. I’m making a monitor style and have to remove two blocky pieces after drilling.

Drilling the holes is the most difficult and time consuming part so you do that first. Without two interconnecting you have nothing. This rock is 7 on the mohs scale so all my tools are diamond.

So far so good. More to come…

 

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[Up-North]

That is going to make a very nice pipe__♨️___

 

[LandSeig]

That is some beautiful material, please keep us posted!

 

[ToddsPoint]

So with the new format are the reproductions posted with the real now? It’s a nice project and looks like it’s going to turnout beautiful

I’m on the flintknapping forum, not the artifact forum. You have a problem with that?🤷🏼

 

[AlabamaRelic]

I’m on the flintknapping forum, not the artifact forum. You have a problem with that?🤷🏼

This is the artifact forum.

 

[AlabamaRelic]

Now it moved to flint knapping

 

[Blackfoot58]

Looks like chert in spots; I’m thinking red jasper/chert. Will be a beautiful pipe.👍🏼

 

[CreekSide]

Looking forward to seeing the end result

 

[ToddsPoint]

Now it moved to flint knapping

I posted it to the artifact forum by mistake. Sorry!😢

 

[ToddsPoint]

Another cut. I exposed a crack. I hope it’s not fatal. Now I’ll trim the corners off the bowl. I’m using a 6” trim saw. I’ll take as many cuts with that as I can.

 

[ToddsPoint]

Looks like chert in spots; I’m thinking red jasper/chert. Will be a beautiful pipe.👍🏼

Red color in rocks often come from iron content. That’s why jasper is red and yellow. However, jasper is always opaque. The red in my rock is translucent and gem like. I like how the grey material looks like pieces of a puzzle, frozen in place by white quartz.