jasper scrapers

larson1951 · Feb 3, 2013

a new member (ward) sent me a PM and was asking about jasper scrapers
here's a few
i hope someone else has a few
i bet old digger man from montana has some colorful ones he would be so kind to post
also i know that TWitco has some good ones.......right kelly?

wardcheney · Feb 5, 2013

Yah, but what if you're allergic to nuts, like I am? (Referring to larson1951's funny photo of the peanut butter cache.)

wardcheney · Feb 5, 2013

The 15 photos of the endscrapers, point, sidescrapers, thumbscraper are great, Steve. Really nice pieces. Beautiful stone. I can't figure out which one is Rainy Butte . . . don't know what I'm looking for.

theviking · Feb 5, 2013

How about some translucent Jasper.

larson1951 · Feb 5, 2013

wardcheney said:
The 15 photos of the endscrapers, point, sidescrapers, thumbscraper are great, Steve. Really nice pieces. Beautiful stone. I can't figure out which one is Rainy Butte . . . don't know what I'm looking for.

theviking said:
How about some translucent Jasper.

the RBSW is the piece in the center

i did not know that you have translucent jasper in your area it reminds me of KRF in a way really cool

steve

SouthernGirl · Feb 6, 2013

larson1951 said:
another frame with a few jasper, but also agate, KRF, pet wood, chert etc for your perusal View attachment 735822
hope you like

So many beautiful colors!

Charl · Feb 6, 2013

Ward, thought you might like to see these. A big chunk of jasper we collected years ago in NE Rhode Island, and also the only glacial beach pebble/small cobble of RI jasper we've found, on Narragansett Bay. If there were a lot of it, I'd give you a shout to collect some, but there isn't much at all found on our beaches. I just learned it is very easy to find jasper pebbles/cobbles at beaches at Cape May, NJ.

Steve, hope you don't mind, couple photos of points made of jasper, personal finds. The veins in the last one are chalcedony, I'm told. Love the pretty little point you found.

larson1951 · Feb 6, 2013

Charl said:
Ward, thought you might like to see these. A big chunk of jasper we collected years ago in NE Rhode Island, and also the only glacial beach pebble/small cobble of RI jasper we've found, on Narragansett Bay. If there were a lot of it, I'd give you a shout to collect some, but there isn't much at all found on our beaches. I just learned it is very easy to find jasper pebbles/cobbles at beaches at Cape May, NJ.

Steve, hope you don't mind, couple photos of points made of jasper, personal finds. The veins in the last one are chalcedony, I'm told. Love the pretty little point you found.

i like charl

that color jasper still reminds me of peanut brittle?

steve
larson1951

Charl · Feb 6, 2013

larson1951 said:
i like charl

that color jasper still reminds me of peanut brittle?

steve
larson1951

It does indeed. Sure would make a body's teeth pretty darn brittle. :laughing7:

larson1951 · Feb 7, 2013

her is a scraper with a spoke shave on the left side
it is the KRF piece in the middle

flintdigger · Feb 7, 2013

Beautiful artifact's eveeybody.

larson1951 · Feb 9, 2013

i had no idea that jasper is found almost everywhere
seems like the orange kind of color is the most common

GatorBoy · Feb 9, 2013

Unless I'm mistaken... Jasper is just chert that gets its color from iron oxide... or apparently several other minerals since so many colors are being called Jasper.