Well.. The time has finally come for me to move onto a new blog. In about a month my internet alias will no longer be Theteenagecaveman.

My new blog is up, and i’m going by my real name. It’s currently under construction but it will be ready for my first blog project in the beginning of March where i will be posting an arrowhead a day for the month of march. Depending on the popularity of this project i may continue to post a new point daily until the end of summer. This is quite an ambitious goal but I think it can be done.

Don’t worry though the teenagecaveman blog will stay online for the foreseeable future. If you want to contact me, do so through my new blog, or email me at harleyslade (at) hotmail (dot) com

Thank you for supporting me.

NEW BLOG!!

 

i didn’t take any photos or video at the knap in. but tomorrow ill post some photos of the rock that i picked up and the point that i made. I’ll also post a link to the write up of the knap in that jim keffer will post make on the PSK website.

there was plenty of cool rock, and of course awesome company.  the chilli was just like i remembered.

It’s always nice to get together with friends to chip some stone.

 

Sitting in the car..  dub-step flowing all around me, slamming my tympanum until it hurts. The small red car is packed full of four people, my sister and her friend who are going to a church convention or Chaplin workshop of some sorts.

179..  the exit that they we’re going to take to get to Edmunds. They are spending the weekend down there..

A bright yellow and red denny’s sign, soaring above the endless strip malls stands out like a slimy black slug on a white linoleum floor. a reminder of the amazing materialistic, time hungry, culture we live in.

beautiful blue sky is fading from a light salmon to turquoise and finally diminishing to a deep navy blue far in the east; the first of the night’s stars starting to peek their heads from behind the shroud of daylight .

6 or 7 pounds of rocks, waiting to be chipped and traded at my third-year-running attendance to the cabin fever knap in, lay snugly in the hatchback bundled up in my spare jackets

the knap in is usually held on the fourth weekend in January. It is held by Dave Pehling and Jim Dennis in an their awesome garage/ shop just outside of Granite Falls WA. It celebrates the opening of a new knapping year. Tomorrow I will be sitting with fellow knappers from all across the Pacific Northwest chipping rock and hopefully see some interesting new stone as well.

photos from the trip down:

talk to you tonight!

TTC

the handle is maple, stained with red ocher and beeswax. the head is made of crazy mahogany, gold sheen, midnight lace and dacite. the wrapping is artificial sinew. obsidian is set in the wood with spruce pitch glue.

thanks for looking

TTC

here’s some recent work from last fall.

click on the thumbnails for a HUGE detailed picture!

thanks for looking!