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SPALLS April 2004
Richard Urata, Joan Urata and Dave Rauschenberg are producing this issue of SPALLS with contribution from Mick Hill. Please contact Richard Urata for questions, comments and future additions to SPALLS. SPALLS Distribution Many of the PSK knappers with only snail-mail address are not receiving SPALLS. For you that are receiving SPALLS via e-mail, please notify these snail-mail knappers to send a payment of $5.00 for 2004 to Dave Rauschenberg at 38010 272nd Ave. S.E., Enumclaw, WA 98022. Year 2004 subscription is due at this time. Please note that the subscription rate dropped to $5.00 per year. THE POLICY IS: If you send your e-mail address to Richard Urata at HYPERLINK mailto:richurata@cybernet1.com richurata@cybernet1.com there is no charge for SPALLS. If you do not have an e-mail address and want SPALLS by snail-mail, you must send $5.00 to cover the cost of printing and postage. If you have an e-mail address and did not receive SPALLS in APRIL, e-mail your address to Richard Urata. I have from 5 to 10 “not deliverable” messages at this time. I need some updates! SPAM PROTECTION: Several of our subscribers have not been getting the SPALLS issue via e-mail. Please check your SPAM protection. I think that some of your SPAM protection is eliminating the SPALLS message. One of the checks for SPAM is the number of multiple issues from the sender. If your protection checks this, the SPALLS message will be tagged as SPAM. In some cases, the message is only tagged. In others, the message is deleted. NEXT SPALLS ISSUE: The next SPALLS issue will be in July, after the Goldendale Knap-In. Enjoy the summer! EVENTS: Bakersfield Monthly Knap-In, Bakersfield, California (This is not a PSK Event) A monthly knap-in is held on the first Sunday of every month. The one-day event goes from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at the Hart Memorial Park. The park is eight miles northeast of Bakersfield on the Alfred Harrell Highway. Knappers meet at the East end of the park. While on highway 58, east of Bakersfield, take the Camanche exit and turn to the north. Camanche curves around 5 to 6 miles and dead ends into highway 178. Turn north on 178 (right) then a quick left (less then 1/4 mile) onto Alfred Harrel highway. Alfred Harrel 7-8 miles goes into Hart Park. The knap-in is 100 yards or so from the entrance on the right hand side of the park. For more information contact Gary Pickett (661) 392-7729 Third Annual Goldendale Knap-In & “TBW” Bowyer’s Jamboree, Goldendale, Washington, May 12 through 19 “Core time” will be from Thursday PM through Sunday PM. The Event will be held at Ed & Loretta Thomas' property, 40 Rocky Ridge Road, Goldendale, WA 98620. Directions to get there: Goldendale is located on Hwy 97, approx. 70 miles S. of Yakima, WA. Once reaching Goldendale, exit Hwy 97 at the N. exit into Goldendale. Travel approx. 1/3 mile to the intersection of Broadway and Bickelton Road/Hwy (Reno's Pizza is on the corner of the intersection).
Turn E. onto Bickelton Hwy and travel approx. 4 1/2 miles to the intersection with "Willis Rd", on the rt. and "Pumphouse Rd" on the left (North).
Turn N. onto Pumphouse RD and travel approx. 1/2 mile to the intersection of "Rocky Ridge Rd".
Turn left (West) onto Rocky Ridge Road and continue to the 2nd driveway on the left. This will be our property.
Signs will be placed on Bickelton Rd, Rocky Ridge Rd and at our driveway. Follow the signs.
Facilities: Dry camping is allowed on the property. We have 20 acres with plenty of room for Vehicles, Tents, Trailers and Motor Homes. There will be 4 Sani-Cans in the general camping area, along with washing/cleansing facilities for hands. There is a "Target" trail for those that wish to do some "stalking" of targets. The trail is currently about 1/3 mile in length with 10 "gunny-bag" targets, place at random about the property.
Activities: Knapping techniques and related contests and Yes, tales of "unbeknownst origin". Hafting demonstrations (arrowheads and knives). Archery targets available for relaxation. An area will be set aside for trading/bartering. Auctions and Raffles of donated items. Bow making demonstrations. Possibly some Arrow making demonstrations.
Dealers: Dealers are welcome but we request advance notice from same.
Food: Potluck meals - Friday, 14 May - "Africa John" will pit-BBQ a complete Lamb, for Dinner. Saturday, 15 May - We will BBQ Chinook Salmon, for Dinner. Sunday, 16 May - Pancake and "Egg-Fritata" Breakfast. Weenie-Wagon, from town, will be present from Thursday afternoon until Sunday afternoon, for those that don't cook their own meals.
When responding via email, place "WAJAM or K/I" in the subject line. Otherwise, it may end up in the "Spam folder" and we won't get it! We would like some idea as to how many of you will be attending, or not. This will enable us to figure how much Salmon to buy. For more information, contact Ed at (509) 773-6461, e-mail: HYPERLINK mailto:feather@gorge.net feather@gorge.net . Moses Lake Knap-In, Moses Lake , Washington, Labor Day Weekend This knap-in will probably be on Labor Daly Weekend. The July SPALLS will specify the exact dates. 9th Annual Turkey Feast Knap-In, Millersylvania, Washington. November 6 and 7 Holly and Mick Hill, the hosts, always have a potluck centered around a fantastic turkey dinner at this knap-in. Get ready for Thanksgiving by attending the Millersylvania Knap-In south of Olympia, WA. In the past Holly Hill arranged a pre-Thanksgiving pot-luck feast; I think Holly provided most of the feast. The potluck will be held approximately 1:00 pm Saturday. Millersylvania is a Washington State Park with a picnic shelter complete with fireplace and a kitchen. As usual the knapping and dinner will be around the huge covered indoor fireplace or kitchen wood stoves so we will all be warm and dry Bring a potluck item for Saturday, camp stool or lawn chair, and the usual knappers stuff, tools, displays, barters, sales, etc.! Holly will be bringing FABRIC and the TURKEY – Mick. To get to the park, take I-5 to Exit 95. Then follow signs to park entrance, Kitchen #1. A hike path is located at the first parking lot to cabin near Deep Lake. We will have wheelbarrows available again for transporting supplies from vehicles to the cabin. Thanks for your efforts to follow park rules. If necessary, there is a back road to The campground has a small overnight camping fee and there are hookups, bathrooms, and hot quarter-operated showers. The kitchen cabin has electricity for lights and wall socket use, but water has been turned off for winter weathering. Jugs of water will be available for drinking, etc. There is a bathroom a short distance from the cabin REPORTS: Quartzsite Knap-In, Quartzsite, Arizona, January 1 through February 28, 2004 By Richard Urata We arrived at the Knap-In on the 14th of January. All of the preparations for setting up were completed. To our expectations, “Nine-Fingers” (Jerry Calvert) and Mary Webster rented two adjoining spaces. The complaint last year was “not enough room for everyone”. There were plenty of room this year!! The long side of the spaces faced the sun so it was great. Due to the increase in cost for the hosts, we conducted an auction of contributed points and played the 10-speed game and the Goat game that Leroy Jines introduced to the Western Knappers. The proceeds from the auction and part of the entry fees went to the hosts. This help pay for the cost of the rented spaces, food and coffee. It was a bit windy this year with just one day of a little sprinkles. The temperature was 55 to 73 degrees F. Perfect for snowbirds like us from Montana. Total throughout the 2-months had an attendance of over 50 knappers from all over the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Knappers came from as far as Georgia in the south east, Michigan in the north east, Washington in the north west and California in the south west. Many points were produced, displayed and sold at the knap-in. Improvements in knappers were obviously evident. New items for sale were wooden display boxes, slabs, snake oils, and new knapping tools. Prices of the display cases were from $35.00 for the plain ones up to $65.00 for the fancy, better made inlayed ones. There was an arrowhead inlayed on each side of the case. Rocks were plentiful this year—with Australian mookite, Mexican imperial jasper and Brazilian agates being the popular ones. The mookite were about the best we have seen. Good color and best of all, very solid with no cracks. Sonny Owens guided several trips to collect Arizona stones. I went on two of them. Both were successful. We went to Chino Valley to collect Arizona Pipestone to make pipes, to carve, and to make beads. We brought enough material back for a year’s supply of pipe making. The other trip “the trip to hell” took us through 300 miles of pavement and 110 miles of dirt roads, crossing 10 gates. The last 10 miles of road was made for 4-wheel drives for the clearance. Boulders were abundant. Several times one or two of the wheels were floating. When we finally got there, the basalt/andesite were all over the ground. Lots of big ones for 12 to 18 inch blades. It was a loooonnnngg day! It is the kind of trip to go just once for the experience. My thanks to Jack Hemphill for driving all the way. The Pot-luck was great! Nine-fingers make a road-kill stew that everyone enjoyed. There were about 40 people enjoying the stew and all the other food that the participants brought. There were from 5 to 20 knappers on any of the days during the knap-in. Points were produced from Missouri Burlington, Keokut, Imperial Jasper, Arizona and Brazilian Agate, Nevada Chalcedony, Texas Chert, Kentucky Hornstone, Oregon Jasper, and lots of Obsidian from California and Oregon. Nine-fingers had two kilns going all the time cooking whatever rocks that knappers brought in to cook. Charles Shotton shared his diamond wheel grinder for FOG knappers. There were many points made and equal amount of tall stories were told and repeated. Seems like everyone enjoyed the knap-in and many of us already reserved our RV spaces for next year. Hope to see you other knappers there next year. Glass Butte Gathering, Glass Butte, Oregon, March 20 Thru 28 – The 19th Annual! (This is not a PSK event) By Mick Hill As noted in previous write-ups about this particular knap-in you may have noted my references to the weather being THE pivotal element dictating all and all encompassing all. This year was different, but not different... This Knap-In sported a wider variety of weather than the previous 4 years (of "mostly good weathers"). The first four days (Sun, Sat, Mon, Tue.) were weather of the likes we had never seen before: mostly clear, windless, stunning, and bordering on hot! Most of us were sent scurrying for shade to knap in. (I was down to a thin shirt and nylon pants for 3 days) Then Wed, Thur, Fri, reverted to Classic March Knapin weather: cold, windy, cloudy, with occasional fits of light horizontal snow flurries. Thursday was the worst of it, enough to empty out most of the knapping pits around the encampments – fires were bigger - loafing peaked - campfire tales got bigger longer stranger Then Sat and Sun returned back to that weird clear, gorgeous, calm and warm weather. It was our usual gang of attendees of the Abbo set, some 100 or so of us that are there year after year. Most folks are from Oregon, Washington, Canada and nearby States. Sprinkled in amongst them were the occasional carload of "touri", day visitors, and Girl Scouts from the "big cities". From the "usual gang of suspects" from our PSK we had Holly & Mick, Joe & Bettye, Jim Smith, and Brian Knapp - all of us spent the better part of the week here. As usual Brian had to sneak away from his Bombing Range to attend - Jim is freshly Retired, so he doesn't care - and Joe and Bettye arrived in their warm new warm motor home (that Holly became surgically attached to during the cold weather). After all these years, the activities around camp followed pretty much the same proven blueprint. The Abbo bowshoot contest was Wednesday and the big Blanket Trade was that same evening. Most evenings the camp would gather at the main campfire to relax, visit, and listen to people play music late into the night. On one of these evenings I "presented " Jim Riggs with his annual gag gift award. This year it was an Abbo Cell Phone ( a carved cow leg bone with a long bogus car antenna sticking out of it... ) Anyway, after a solid week of intensive knapping with good knappers, I learned a couple important "new" things (for me) about percussion that I'll share here. 1) If what your doing "isn't working" or if your progress has "flatlined", borrow your neighbors tools and try them - the difference in shape and/or weight may make ALL the difference in the world - whatever the outcome, always keep trying other tools to quest for the "what's working" now. (Emory Coons) 2) Work faster - quit trying to think and plan the thing to death and hit that puppy - blaze through it by instinct, (use the "force" young Jedi...) - see how quickly you can pop out a preform - this can be amazing (reduces the inhibition factor) (Ron M. & Emory C.) 3) The technique of pushing and pulling/rolling the block on your leg whilst you hit it to get that spall to roll to the backside can really do more impressive things than I ever imagined. (Brian Knapp) Again as usual check out Roadkill's website for pictures of this Knap In:( this years pictures haven't been posted yet ) HYPERLINK http://www.neoanderthal.com/index.html http://www.neoanderthal.com/index.html . And for those of you who would like to learn about all the other Aboriginal life skills but don't want to deal with the Buttes in March, the same group of folks (mostly) put on a summer session at: http://www.echoes-in-time.com/ . East Wenatchee Knap-In, Wenatchee, Washington, April 2 Thru 4 By Richard Urata First we knappers would like to thank Dr. Tom Hurst for allowing us the use of his property for this knap-in. We sure enjoy it and appreciate it! We arrived about noon Friday and there were about 6 knappers with mounds of debitage in front of them. The weather was great short sleeve weather throughout the weekend. We couldn’t ask for better weather. Friday night was a primitive fire starting night. Several teenagers wanted to learn how to start a fire using the hand-drill method. Brian Knapp and Webb Hammond guided the teenagers and they finally got some fires going. Several kids left with blisters on their palms. After watching all the effort, we all appreciate the simple thing called the match and more recently, the Bic lighter! There were thirty knappers all telling tall stories and breaking rocks. So much debitage was created that Cole used his back hoe scooper to carry it away. We played the 10-speed game with 13 participants. The women were the judges and they chose Jim Millers point as the best point with Lee Olsen point as second. All of the points were donated to Dr. Tom Hurst. He plans to give the points (salt the soil) for a youth arrowhead hunting event. There were several show-and-tell items. Jim Miller brought two gold nuggets that he found in Alaska. One of them was huge! He also brought a set of three points – the original knapped point, and a silver and a gold casting of the point. They were niiicccee!!! Cole Hurst showed us a couple of knives with scrimshawed handles that he made. Rich Urata brought some of his pipes that he made from pipestone and soapstone. Stu Murdock brought a knife with a celtic design on the wooden handle. Stu is really getting carried away with all of his celtic designs – round ones, rectangular ones, triangular ones, wrap-around ones, etc, etc. Amazing!! The knappers were excited because word got around that we were going to have an OOGA BOOGA Initiation Ceremony at the knap-in. We had a signup sheet and got approximately 20 initiates. We had a Ceremony on Saturday night. The property has a mound with a 6-foot diameter fire pit on top of the mound. We had a roaring fire going before starting the Ceremony. The setting was ideal for an OOGA BOOGA!!!! Cole Hurst, a first time chief, and Richard Urata alternated being Chiefs. Other than the pain of going through the Ceremony, I think everyone enjoyed the event. We also had an inpromptu flute concert Sunday afternoon presented by Canyon Hurst and Holly Hill. When they started playing all the rock breaking suddenly stopped and everyone listened to the music. Seems like the knap-in just started when it was time to pack up and head for home. It was a great knap-in and maybe next year, we will have another OOGA BOOGA Ceremony. We’ll see what Chief Cole Hurst says. MAYBE OF INTEREST: Website for Artifact and Archeological Books This website has Artifact and Archeological Books and Videos for sale. Go to: HYPERLINK http://www.hothemhouse.com/ http://www.hothemhouse.com/ . Public Land Access By Ed Thomas These organizations are trying to keep public lands accessible for public use. If you plan to dig rocks for knapping, help these organizations out. Get involved!! This is the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies web page. I believe this group to be the main oversight group that all rockhound/knapping organizations should be affiliated with. HYPERLINK "http://www.amfed.org/region.htm"http://www.amfed.org/region.htm This is the ALAA website that Steve Berggren was referring to. HYPERLINK "http://www.amerlands.org/"http://www.amerlands.org/ American Land Rights Association. HYPERLINK http://www.landrights.org http://www.landrights.org TARP There is a flint forum where knappers can participate by posting and reading messages and/or going into the chatroom. It may be of interest as knapping information is passed back and forth via messages. It is called TARP – you know, the thing you put on the ground to collect the debitage. HYPERLINK http://www.egroups.com/group/thetarp http://www.egroups.com/group/thetarp . Knappers-R-Us Here’s another e-group for knappers: HYPERLINK http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knappers-R-Us/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knappers-R-Us/ Flintknappers Digest Another Egroup called flintknapper’s Digest: HYPERLINK http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flintknappingdigest/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flintknappingdigest/ Lithic Casting Lab For anyone who wants to replicate certain styles of points (Flake patterns, thickness, convexity, length, and width), you can purchase castings of artifacts from Lithic Casting Lab. HYPERLINK http://www.lithiccastinglab.com/ http://www.lithiccastinglab.com/ SPALLS - Rich Urata SPALLS June 2004
Richard Urata, Joan Urata and Dave Rauschenberg are producing this issue of SPALLS with contribution from Ed Thomas. Please contact Richard Urata for questions, comments and future additions to SPALLS. SPALLS Distribution Many of the PSK knappers with only snail-mail address are not receiving SPALLS. For you that are receiving SPALLS via e-mail, please notify these snail-mail knappers to send a payment of $5.00 for 2004 to Dave Rauschenberg at 38010 272nd Ave. S.E., Enumclaw, WA 98022. Year 2004 subscription is due at this time. Please note that the subscription rate dropped to $5.00 per year. THE POLICY IS: If you send your e-mail address to Richard Urata at HYPERLINK mailto:richurata@cybernet1.com richurata@cybernet1.com there is no charge for SPALLS. If you do not have an e-mail address and want SPALLS by snail-mail, you must send $5.00 to cover the cost of printing and postage. If you have an e-mail address and did not receive SPALLS in APRIL, e-mail your address to Richard Urata. I have from 5 to 10 “not deliverable” messages at this time. I need some updates! SPAM PROTECTION: Several of our subscribers have not been getting the SPALLS issue via e-mail. Please check your SPAM protection. I think that some of your SPAM protection is eliminating the SPALLS message. One of the checks for SPAM is the number of multiple issues from the sender. If your protection checks this, the SPALLS message will be tagged as SPAM. In some cases, the message is only tagged. In others, the message is deleted. NEXT SPALLS ISSUE: The next SPALLS issue will be in December, after the Moses Lake Knap-In. Enjoy the summer! EVENTS: Bakersfield Monthly Knap-In, Bakersfield, California (This is not a PSK Event) A monthly knap-in is held on the first Sunday of every month. The one-day event goes from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at the Hart Memorial Park. The park is eight miles northeast of Bakersfield on the Alfred Harrell Highway. Knappers meet at the East end of the park. Take hwy 58 east going out of town. On the outskirts exit Camanche Dr. Go North on Camanche 7-8 miles to a stop light (hwy 178) Go Straight thru the light and Camanche changes to Alfred Harrel Hwy. Follow Alfred Harrel 6-7 miles to Hart Park. When entering the park stay to the right. We are about 100 yards from the entrance on the right hand side. Look for a big set of picnic tables, and I will have a big sign out. For more information contact Gary Pickett (661) 444-6163 or e-mail: 2004 TBW Rendevous, August 6 through 8, Cle Elum, Washington The Traditional Bowhunters of Washington (TBW) invites you to their rendevous to archery shoot, have fun and to become TBW members. The cost of membership is $10.00.. The rendevous will be at the Flying Horseshoe Ranch near Cle Elum, Washington. There is on site primitive camping and toilets. Room for RV’s and trailers (no hook-ups). Bring water, food and your camp chair. Cabins are available at the ranch. Showers and a pool are available at the ranch. Traditional Gear only: Recurves, longbows, selfbows. Wood or aluminum arrows. Broadheads on designated targets only. Pets on leash in-hand onlly on courses. Bring golf flu-flu and flight arrows. There will be Long Elk and Running Deer Shoot, Night Shoot, Raffles, Seminars, Golf Shoot, and Blanket Shoot. Shooting Fees: Members $15.00, Non-members $25. This allows you to shoot the courses for the entire weekend. Kids 17 and under shoot for free. Raffle donations kindly accepted. To get there, take Interstate 90 exit 85. Go east on Highway 970 for 3.5 miles. Go left on Masterson Road for 0.1 miles. Go right on Red Bridge Road. Go left on Weihl Road. Go left at the fork. To help us provide for your portable potty needs, a courtesy call to (253) 630-6660, or email to HYPERLINK mailto:dl_sharp@msn.com dl_sharp@msn.com with an approximate head count would be appreciated. For more information contact: Rory Linden: HYPERLINK mailto:rory@jmrk.com rory@jmrk.com , or Bill Curtindale: HYPERLINK mailto:wildbillz@msn.com wildbillz@msn.com or (253) 922-3125. Fort Knapadonia Knap-In, Whidbey Island, Washington, August 13 through 15 Since the July and August knap-ins of previous years are no more, Joe Higgins volunteered to have the Fort Knapadonia Knap-In in August to “fill the gap”. He promises to have a full schedule of events – archery target shoots, OOGA BOOGA ceremony, 2-inch Goat, 10-speed, etc, etc, and don’t forget – making arrowheads and blades. The Traditional Bowyers of Washington were invited to this knap-in. Maybe we can have a Traditional Bowyers versus PSKers sausage shoot! We can have Joe Higgins and Dave Pheling do the shooting for the PSKers. Bring your bows. To get to the knap-in go north past Seattle about 70 miles on Interstate 5. Take the 230 off-ramp to highway 20 and go west toward Anacortes. Take highway 20 turn off to Deception Pass. Go past Deception Pass about 2 miles and turn right (west) on Banta Road. Follow the signs from Banta Road to the knap-in. There are stores and restaurants/fast foods in the area. There is water available, electricity, port-a-potty, and lots of room for camping and RVing. Women are welcomed! There are plenty of garage sales and stores for shopping. If you get there before Friday, you will be asked to help in the preparation. Contact Joe Higgins at (360) 675-4943 for more information. More info about menu etc. will be available later. Moses Lake Knap-In, Moses Lake , Washington, September 4 through 6 The knap-in will be held at Ken and Adele Calvert’s place, at Moses Lake, Washington. Plenty of room for camping. Ken’s property is a lake front property. They say that the lake has all kinds of fish. There will be a pot luck on Saturday evening with pork spareribs (this year they really will be pork), two salads and dessert furnished by the hosts. Plan to bring dishes to compliment the main course. Ken is also trying to find a bluegrass band to entertain us. I hope he is successful! To get there, take interstate 90 off ramp 179 and go north on highway 17 toward Soap Lake. Stay on highway 17 until mile post 59. You will see a gravel pit on your left. Turn left after the gravel pit onto Mc Connilte Road. Stay on Mc Connilte Road for several miles and turn left onto “D 5” road. Go to end of the road and turn left. You will see a Knap-in sign about 100 yards down on the right of the road. Turn right onto Ken’s property. If you miss “D 5” road stay on Mc Connilte Road (Stay on the pavement) and it will circle around and will pass Ken’s property. Look for the Knap-in sign on your right. Ken’s address is 4535 Road 6.5 N.E. For more information, call Ken at (509) 762-2454. 9th Annual Turkey Feast Knap-In, Millersylvania, Washington. November 6 and 7 Holly and Mick Hill, the hosts, always have a potluck centered around a fantastic turkey dinner at this knap-in. Get ready for Thanksgiving by attending the Millersylvania Knap-In south of Olympia, WA. In the past Holly Hill arranged a pre-Thanksgiving pot-luck feast; I think Holly provided most of the feast. The potluck will be held approximately 1:00 pm Saturday. Millersylvania is a Washington State Park with a picnic shelter complete with fireplace and a kitchen. As usual the knapping and dinner will be around the huge covered indoor fireplace or kitchen wood stoves so we will all be warm and dry Bring a potluck item for Saturday, camp stool or lawn chair, and the usual knappers stuff, tools, displays, barters, sales, etc.! Holly will be bringing FABRIC and the TURKEY – Mick. To get to the park, take I-5 to Exit 95. Then follow signs to park entrance, Kitchen #1. A hike path is located at the first parking lot to cabin near Deep Lake. We will have wheelbarrows available again for transporting supplies from vehicles to the cabin. Thanks for your efforts to follow park rules. If necessary, there is a back road to The campground has a small overnight camping fee and there are hookups, bathrooms, and hot quarter-operated showers. The kitchen cabin has electricity for lights and wall socket use, but water has been turned off for winter weathering. Jugs of water will be available for drinking, etc. There is a bathroom a short distance from the cabin REPORTS: Third Annual Goldendale Knap-In & “TBW” Bowyer’s Jamboree, Goldendale, Washington, May 12 through 19 By Ed Thomas The knap-in was again held on Ed and Loretta’s 20-acre property, near Goldendale, WA. There was plenty of room with about 6 acres cleared for parking and camping. The rest of the 20 acres is in scrub (Garry) Oaks and Ponderosa Pine trees. This year there were more campsites available with plenty of "wire-spools" set out for campers to use as tables. Ed has a 30 by 48 shop that was used as a gathering place and kitchen. Most of our meals were eaten there (I mean breakfast, lunch and dinners). Friday evening was a potluck Lamb BBQ by "Africa" John Paulas. Saturday evening was the regular potluck Salmon BBQ by the Thomas Family. Sunday morning Ed was up, bright and early, cooking pancakes for everyone. His daughter, Sherryl, had started preparing multiple Egg Fritata dishes the night before, in preparation for the Sunday morning breakfast. This year saw a number of the Thomas adult offspring and G-kids helping in hosting this event. We feel that we should rename this event as the THOMAS HOLLOW GATHERING, due to so many of our children and their children helping out. We are open to suggestions on this. Pictures of this knap-in can be seen on: HYPERLINK http://www.ofoto.com/I.jsp?c=uesnk8f.aa66wphr&x=0&y=6ihbmz http://www.ofoto.com/I.jsp?c=uesnk8f.aa66wphr&x=0&y=6ihbmz . When the website appears, “click” the blue button “view photos”. The first arrivals were David and Linda Graves on Wednesday. They were shortly followed by Bill and Judy Thomas. We missed seeing "Arrowman", this year, with his telltale sign of arrows shot into the knap-in markers. As soon as people turned into the driveway, it was evident that a lot of preparation had been done for this year's event. There were wire spool "tables" set up at every campsite on the E. side of the property, with more on the W. side of the property. We had invited the "Weenie Wagon" out, from town, for those dudes that have trouble eating their own fried peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for all meals! We had 4 Sani-Kans set up and ready along with 2 10'X 20' shelters. Shortly after folks started arriving on Friday, another 10' x 20' shelter was set up. Saturday AM saw an additional 10' x 20' shelter set up in the bow-making area. There was also a bandsaw set up in advance for the bow-building activities. Myron Olson provided the blades for the saw. This year, we enjoyed the company of the Traditional Bowhunters of Washington (TBW), along with our regular Knappers. Steve Meyer, of Everett, was the event co-ordinater for the Bowyers. Steve did a wonderful job. We enjoyed seeing all the new faces and working together on our various techniques. This was the Bowyer's annual bow-building "WAJAM" (Washington Jamboree). The Bowyers had a number of Vendors attending with their own wares. They (TBW) also gave a "Kid's Bow-Building" class on Saturday, with donations of some Vine Maple bow staves for the kids to make their bows from. A number of the bowyers dedicated the majority of the day in helping each kid make their own bow, including furnishing bow strings. On Sunday AM, the Bowyers gave a seminar on making "self-arrows" as well. Examples of Stu Murdock's exemplary knife making skills were shown. The decorative work on the handles was truly beautiful! Dave Rauschenberg (hope I spelled it right) had a wonderful display set up at his campsite showing a lot of his skillful work. His Mayan work was truly, very nice! Don Hilderbrand of China Hollow showed up on Friday with a trailer load of his nice "picture rock". Another rock miner from Oregon, Bill Jones, was here for a short time to do a little trading but didn't get around very much. He has reopened his mine during this past week and will have some really nice material to share with us next year. He was amazed at the turnout for our event. Both he and Don will have plenty of material for next year's gathering. Stu conducted a "Goat Rock" event on Saturday, with a lot of discussions and analysis involved during the event. There were a number of new faces attending the Knapping activities this year including several of the Thomas G-Kids. Ed's son-in-law, Rick Gullickson, moved all 13 archery targets to the S. end of the property and set up an archery "target trail", for those folks wishing to "flang" a few feathered sticks at them. It turned out to be pretty popular. Due to placing campers at the W. side of the property, this was a safety measure taken. Our turnout count was in the 120 - 130 number range. There were approximately 9 or 10 Vendors in attendance as well. Vendors were a mix of both Bowyers and Knappers, with a couple of Rock Miners thrown in. This year's event was truly a memorible gathering. With the blend of the Bowyers, Knappers and Miners, things couldn't have been much better. The Thomas Family, Ed and Loretta in particular, wish to thank everyone for their participation and contributions to make this such a wonderful and successful gathering. We are looking forward to even more fun next year! We are especially thankful for the assistance everyone gave in setup and tear down. The cleanup work was exemplary. Thank you, each and every one of you!! Saturday evening, after the potluck dinner, we had an auction and raffle. Dale Sharp, President of the Bowyer group, along with Sherryl Reynolds, Ed and Loretta's "Barker" daughter, ran this activity and did a wonderful job. A special drawing was held by Duane Spangler of Whidbey Island (TBW). He went around during the day, Saturday, and collected the names of all the kids in attendance. At the start of the Auction/Raffle, Duane came up on the podium and drew one of these names to give a self-made bow to the winning name. Tana Gullikson won the bow. A special thanks to Duane for his thoughtfulness in this drawing for the kids! A large number of people donated items to the Raffle and the Auction. I will attempt to name as many as possible and offer my apologies to anyone, not mentioned, in advance. RAFFLE ITEMS; BOW, made by Strunk, donated by Steve Meyer BOW, made by Duane Spangler, donated by Duane UNFLETCHED ARROWS, donated by Mike Fletcher TRADITIONAL QUIVER, donated by Jack COMPLETED ARROWS, by the Arrow Maker PETRIFIED WOOD LIMB CAST, by Ed Thomas RED ARROWHEAD, by Lee Olson KID'S BOW, made and donated by Duane Spangler of Whidbey Island ~ SPECIAL KID'S DRAWING ~ AUCTION ITEMS; FINISHED ARROWS, by Mike Fletcher BOW, by Jim Remp ARROW, by Dave Rauschenberg SCLOOM'S MEMORIAL SKINNER KNIFE, by Ed Thomas ARROW, by Stu Murdock LOUISE BILLY MEMORIAL ARROWHEAD NECKLACE, by Ed Thomas HIP QUIVER, by Jerry Krauth VAL WALDORF ORIGINAL DRAWING, by Ed Thomas CHINA HOLLOW PICTURE ROCK (130lb. hunk), by Don Hilderbrand - China Hollow Farms SHEEP CREEK AGATE, by Ed Thomas NEXT YEAR'S EVENT- ~ MAY 2005, OVER THE WEEKEND FOLLOWING MOTHER'S DAY ~ WATCH "SPALLS" NEWSLETTER, AFTER THE 1ST OF THE YEAR, FOR UPDATES! MAYBE OF INTEREST: Website for Artifact and Archeological Books This website has Artifact and Archeological Books and Videos for sale. Go to: HYPERLINK http://www.hothemhouse.com/ http://www.hothemhouse.com/ . Public Land Access By Ed Thomas These organizations are trying to keep public lands accessible for public use. If you plan to dig rocks for knapping, help these organizations out. Get involved!! This is the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies web page. I believe this group to be the main oversight group that all rockhound/knapping organizations should be affiliated with. HYPERLINK "http://www.amfed.org/region.htm"http://www.amfed.org/region.htm This is the ALAA website that Steve Berggren was referring to. HYPERLINK "http://www.amerlands.org/"http://www.amerlands.org/ American Land Rights Association. HYPERLINK http://www.landrights.org http://www.landrights.org TARP There is a flint forum where knappers can participate by posting and reading messages and/or going into the chatroom. It may be of interest as knapping information is passed back and forth via messages. It is called TARP – you know, the thing you put on the ground to collect the debitage. HYPERLINK http://www.egroups.com/group/thetarp http://www.egroups.com/group/thetarp . Knappers-R-Us Here’s another e-group for knappers: HYPERLINK http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knappers-R-Us/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knappers-R-Us/ Flintknappers Digest Another Egroup called flintknapper’s Digest: HYPERLINK http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flintknappingdigest/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flintknappingdigest/ Lithic Casting Lab For anyone who wants to replicate certain styles of points (Flake patterns, thickness, convexity, length, and width), you can purchase castings of artifacts from Lithic Casting Lab. HYPERLINK http://www.lithiccastinglab.com/ http://www.lithiccastinglab.com/ SPALLS - Rich Urata SPALLS October 2004
Richard Urata, Joan Urata and Dave Rauschenberg are producing this issue of SPALLS. Please contact Richard Urata for questions, comments and future additions to SPALLS. SPALLS Distribution Many of the PSK knappers with only snail-mail address are not receiving SPALLS. For you that are receiving SPALLS via e-mail, please notify these snail-mail knappers to send a payment of $5.00 for 2005 to Dave Rauschenberg at 38010 272nd Ave. S.E., Enumclaw, WA 98022. Year 2005 subscription is due at this time. THE POLICY IS: If you send your e-mail address to Richard Urata at HYPERLINK mailto:richurata@cybernet1.com richurata@cybernet1.com there is no charge for SPALLS. If you do not have an e-mail address and want SPALLS by snail-mail, you must send $5.00 to cover the cost of printing and postage. If you have an e-mail address and did not receive SPALLS in OCTOBER, e-mail your address to Richard Urata. I have from 5 to 10 “not deliverable” messages at this time. I need some updates! SPAM PROTECTION: Several of our subscribers have not been getting the SPALLS issue via e-mail. Please check your SPAM protection. I think that some of your SPAM protection is eliminating the SPALLS message. One of the checks for SPAM is the number of multiple issues from the sender. If your protection checks this, the SPALLS message will be tagged as SPAM. In some cases, the message is only tagged. In others, the message is deleted. NEXT SPALLS ISSUE: The next SPALLS issue will be in April, after the Wenatchee Knap-In. Enjoy the winter! EVENTS: 9th Annual Turkey Feast Knap-In, Millersylvania, Washington. November 6 and 7 Holly and Mick Hill, the hosts, always have a potluck centered around a fantastic turkey dinner at this knap-in. Get ready for Thanksgiving by attending the Millersylvania Knap-In south of Olympia, WA. In the past Holly Hill arranged a pre-Thanksgiving pot-luck feast; I think Holly provided most of the feast. The potluck will be held approximately 1:00 pm Saturday. Millersylvania is a Washington State Park with a picnic shelter complete with fireplace and a kitchen. As usual the knapping and dinner will be around the huge covered indoor fireplace or kitchen wood stoves so we will all be warm and dry Bring a potluck item for Saturday, camp stool or lawn chair, and the usual knappers stuff, tools, displays, barters, sales, etc.! Holly will be bringing FABRIC and the TURKEY – Mick. To get to the park, take I-5 to Exit 95. Then follow signs to park entrance, Kitchen #1. A hike path is located at the first parking lot to cabin near Deep Lake. We will have wheelbarrows available again for transporting supplies from vehicles to the cabin. Thanks for your efforts to follow park rules. If necessary, there is a back road to The campground has a small overnight camping fee and there are hookups, bathrooms, and hot quarter-operated showers. The kitchen cabin has electricity for lights and wall socket use, but water has been turned off for winter weathering. Jugs of water will be available for drinking, etc. There is a bathroom a short distance from the cabin The 10th Annual Quartzsite Knap-In, January 1 through February 28 This is the longest Knap-In in the United States, maybe the world. Hosted by Nine Fingers and Mary Webster. The Knap-In will be located on the property on the west side of the bakery. Look for a two-toned aluminum and blue colored bus. For more information call Nine Fingers or Mary at (928) 899-5495, e-mail: HYPERLINK mailto:ninefingeredabo@starband.net ninefingeredabo@starband.net . Quartzsite is on Interstate 10, about 20 miles east of the California border. To get there take I-10 to Quartzsite. There are two off ramps, one on the west side and one on the east side of town. From either direction, take the first exit, and drive through town. The town is on the north side of the freeway and there is only one main street. Look for the bakery on the south side of the main street. It is approximately 0.5 miles from the east off ramp and approximately 1.5 miles from the west off ramp. There will be the general store on the north side of the street, across the bakery. There are RV parks and in-town campsites. Out-of-town, BLM runs camp sites for long term camping – like months – with dump stations, or free camp sites if you stay less than 14 days. For more information, see the Quartzsite website: HYPERLINK http://www.quartzsite.com http://www.quartzsite.com. If you prefer a hotel, there is a “Super 8” in Quartzsite. They are also available at Blythe, California, 20 miles away and at Parker, Arizona, 30 miles away. Winter Break Knap-In, Seattle, Washington, First Saturday in February, 5th A One-day Knap-In to initiate the new knapping season. Directions to go to the knap-in: Exit I-5 at 128th Street SW (Everett exit #186). Turn east and go 1/4 mile (across from the Golf Range) to the Park-and-Ride and McCollum Park. Turn into the park (right) and go to the Cooperative Extension building at the back of the park. For the exact date, e-mail Dave Pehling at HYPERLINK mailto:pehling@coopext.cahe.wsu.edu pehling@coopext.cahe.wsu.edu or call at home (360) 691-7902, or at work (425) 338-2400. Glass Butte Gathering, Glass Butte, Oregon, March 19 Through 27 (This is not a PSK event) Here in the Northwest it's the largest, longest, oldest, and coldest running knap-in. The term "hardcore" suddenly springs to mind. It's very aboriginal, very warm-hearted abo's in what can be a very COLD setting. I best repeat that in case you missed it - that's C-O-L-D!! (you have been warned....) Even at that I haven't missed one in a dozen + years. It's always been a "high energy / cabin fever breaker / icebreaker / start of the season" event. (couple hundred people or so..) A lot of things are always going on and it's always busy and it's always laid back (?). Also, if you have other interests in all the East Wenatchee Knap-In, Wenatchee, Washington, April 1 Through 3 This knap-in is at Hurst’s Landing, a park-like setting, along the Columbia River. Cole Hurst hosts this knap-in. Last year’s knap-in was fantastic! It will be better this year! There is lots of room for camping. Water and an out-house are available. To get to Hurst’s Landing go to East Wenatchee and head east on Highway 28. The turn to Hurst’s Landing is on the right near milepost 6. If you make it to Rock Island, turn around and go back a few miles. Hotels and food are only a couple of miles away. For more information call Cole Hurst at (509) 421-7705, e-mail: HYPERLINK mailto:stonewacker@aol.com stonewacker@aol.com . Cole is on the “Flintknapping 2002” calendar, for the month of May. Forth Annual Goldendale Knap-In, Goldendale, Washington, May 2005, over the weekend following Mother’s Day More information in the April Issue of SPALLS. For more information, contact Ed at (509) 773-6461, e-mail: HYPERLINK mailto:feather@gorge.net feather@gorge.net . Get Together of Davis Creek Knap-In Diehards, June 17 Through 19 No host get together of the Davis Creek Knap-In diehards. Plum Valley campground from June 17 through June 19. Bakersfield Monthly Knap-In, Bakersfield, California (This is not a PSK Event) A monthly knap-in is held on the first Sunday of every month. The one-day event goes from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at the Hart Memorial Park. The park is eight miles northeast of Bakersfield on the Alfred Harrell Highway. Knappers meet at the East end of the park. Take hwy 58 east going out of town. On the outskirts exit Camanche Dr. Go North on Camanche 7-8 miles to a stop light (hwy 178) Go Straight thru the light and Camanche changes to Alfred Harrel Hwy. Follow Alfred Harrel 6-7 miles to Hart Park. When entering the park stay to the right. We are about 100 yards from the entrance on the right hand side. Look for a big set of picnic tables, and I will have a big sign out. For more information contact Gary Pickett (661) 444-6163 or e-mail: REPORTS: Fort Knapadonia Knap-In, Whidbey Island, Washington, August 13 through 15 By Richard Urata The hosts Joe, Sunny and Jimmy Higgins promised us 70-degree weather and they came through! The weather was perfect with some early morning fog then sunshine by late morning. The temperature was a perfect 65 to 75 degrees for all three days. After passing Deception pass, Fort Knapadonia is only a few miles south. When we drove up we saw the Ameican Flag and the Fort Knapadonia Flag. What a beautiful place for a knap-in. There were plenty of parking spaces, the all-important 3 rent-a-cans, and about 10 by 20 feet of covered area for knapping. There were also lots of wild, sweet blackberries for break-time snacks. The knapping started early Friday with about 10 knappers. By Saturday there were 24 knappers. Knappers were producing points all day, and of course, talking whenever a new knapper arrived --the initial greetings then the BS starts. On Friday evening, we were treated to an “all you can eat” crab and BBQ salmon dinner courtesy of the hosts. Jimmy caught the crab and I think Joe caught the salmon. We also had salads, rolls and Joe’s homemade wine. I felt guilty eating two crab but later found out that Stu Murdock ate three crab. We also ate about half a pound of salmon each. Fantastic meal!! The wine was perfect! Everyone donated some money to Jimmy to help pay for his gas expenses incurred while catching the crab. On Saturday and Sunday, we got up to a $4.00 “all you can eat” breakfast of hickory smoked bacon, coffee or tea, scrambled eggs and pancakes. We started breaking rocks about 9.00 am and continued all day. The clinking sounds were continuous until early afternoon when we played the 2-inch goat game. Eleven knappers entered with Don Rothfuss the eventual winner. Adrenalin was flowing through all of the participants and spectators so we started the 10-speed game. There were 7 entries. Holly Hill, Bettye Hensel and Laura Kocan were recruited as judges. After the ten minutes were up, the judges picked Tom Applehaus point as the winner. The points were then auctioned off and some points went for surprisingly high prices. Dave Rauschenberg’s point??? (Didn’t look like a point) went through furious bidding and finally sold for $20.00. Of course it was bought by the producer! We were still excited so we started a second game of 2-inch goat with 8 participants. This game lasted a long time. There were three flakes taken with only a smigget over 2 inches on the rock. Rich Urata was the last to try to produce a 2-inch flake of the rock but failed. Stu Murdock was the winner. We had fun on all of the games with lots of teasing going on in the 2-inch goat games. Half of the kitty of all of the games was donated to the host to help pay for the rent-a-cans and for part of the food. After the games were over, we were ready for the “Western Chuckwagon Dinner” with BBQ beef ribs, beans, homemade trail rolls, salad, and more homemade wine. Dinner and talking went late into the evening. On Sunday we woke up to another great breakfast. We mingled around the food area where some of the knappers shot arrows with their self-bows and threw atl atl darts for a few hours. We then went back to knapping until mid afternoon. There were some new knappers from the local rock club and some regulars. Joe is gathering quite a group of knappers in the Widbey Island area. We started the cleanup and disassembled the covering for the knapping area. Most of us left late Sunday afternoon with great memories of the First Annual Fort Knapadonia Knap-In. Thanks to Joe, Sunny, and Jimmy Higgins for the Super Knap-In!!! Moses Lake Knap-In, Moses Lake , Washington, September 4 through 6 By Richard Urata We arrived on Saturday morning and the knap-in was already going strong. Many knappers arrived on Friday and started knapping and BSing. There were about 18 knappers busy making points. There were several new knappers including two young brothers, guessing their ages at 14 and 10 years old, that already make bows, arrows, and knap their own points. Eagle Beak told me that the brothers frequently go out and spend a week or two by themselves on survival trips, with no food, just living off the land. How many of us adults can do this?? I joined in and started knapping around 9:00 am and before I knew it, it was 1:30 pm and it was time for the great BBQ pork dinner that Eagle Beak and Adele provided. As soon as the knappers were notified, they dropped their tools and headed for the food. No one was there trying to finish their last couple of hits on their points. Their son’s girlfriend, “TJ” cooked the most fantastic BBQ pork for all to eat. She also made potato, macaroni, and vegetable salads, and deserts. It was great!! The setting was perfect as we ate by the lakeshore. Eagle Beak finally got what he wanted – BBQ Pork Ribs! He ordered BBQ Pork Ribs on the previous two knap-ins and the caterer brought beef ribs. After dinner, I visited with the other knappers and noticed the great improvement in their knapping abilities. There were points from 1-inch pressure flaked arrowheads to 15-inch bifaces made. Martin Schemp and Lee Olsen had their usual friendly competition in making large bifaces. There was usually more talk and harassment in this competition then actual knapping. I think they didn’t finish their points. Then there was Bill Thomas, quiet but busy pressure flaking producing many of his points. Bill and Dick Kocan were the two who finished the most points during the knap-in. Ralph Groom made some beautifully pressure flaked points. Dan Stevenson made some great precussion points. And, oh, Mick Hill made some 7 to 9 inch bifaces out of “sugared” premium obsidian. I guess he likes the challenge of using this quality obsidian. He must have thousands of these bifaces at home! The time flew by and before we knew it, it was time to say our good byes and leave for home. We didn’t have time to plan for the friendly competition of the 2-inch goat and the 10 speed games. Next year we will surely have these games. The weather was great this year – nice and cool. I would like to say thanks to Adele and “Eagle Beak Two Chicken” Calvert for putting on this knap-in. Not only that they furnish the great setting for knapping but also provide the fantastic food for all who attended. This was another super Moses Lake Knap-In. MAYBE OF INTEREST: Website for Artifact and Archeological Books This website has Artifact and Archeological Books and Videos for sale. Go to: HYPERLINK http://www.hothemhouse.com/ http://www.hothemhouse.com/ . Public Land Access By Ed Thomas These organizations are trying to keep public lands accessible for public use. If you plan to dig rocks for knapping, help these organizations out. Get involved!! This is the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies web page. I believe this group to be the main oversight group that all rockhound/knapping organizations should be affiliated with. HYPERLINK "http://www.amfed.org/region.htm"http://www.amfed.org/region.htm This is the ALAA website that Steve Berggren was referring to. HYPERLINK "http://www.amerlands.org/"http://www.amerlands.org/ American Land Rights Association. HYPERLINK http://www.landrights.org http://www.landrights.org TARP There is a flint forum where knappers can participate by posting and reading messages and/or going into the chatroom. It may be of interest as knapping information is passed back and forth via messages. It is called TARP – you know, the thing you put on the ground to collect the debitage. HYPERLINK http://www.egroups.com/group/thetarp http://www.egroups.com/group/thetarp . Knappers-R-Us Here’s another e-group for knappers: HYPERLINK http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knappers-R-Us/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knappers-R-Us/ Flintknappers Digest Another Egroup called flintknapper’s Digest: HYPERLINK http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flintknappingdigest/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flintknappingdigest/ Lithic Casting Lab For anyone who wants to replicate certain styles of points (Flake patterns, thickness, convexity, length, and width), you can purchase castings of artifacts from Lithic Casting Lab. HYPERLINK http://www.lithiccastinglab.com/ http://www.lithiccastinglab.com/ SPALLS - Rich Urata |
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