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To: wildbill

Regardless of the jokes one can see that rotary tools were used on many relics. Some are are level as modern truing tables. Such work cannot be done with stone chisels.


35 posted on 12/03/2019 1:46:44 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Seruzawa

Absolutely.


44 posted on 12/03/2019 2:15:07 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Seruzawa
"Such work cannot be done with stone chisels."

Such work can be done by pecking to near-net shape with a slightly harder stone -- then planing by abrading with a similar stone, with quartz sand as an abrasive -- to smooth and flatten the surface, while removing the micro-fractured surface from the pecking..

Native Americans made many finely-finished ground stone artifacts that way.


98 posted on 12/03/2019 8:33:24 PM PST by TXnMA (Viewing our world in all four dimensions -- reassures us that POTUS Trump will keep on winning...)
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