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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1420223, member: 37498&quot;]I hear ya!&nbsp; I usually bring home a rock or two whenever I go out hiking or backpacking.&nbsp; I have a lot of &quot;interesting&quot; rocks, but I don&#039;t really have any &quot;valuable&quot; rocks.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have an uncle who is a bigtime rockhound.&nbsp; He hits the road for weeks on end and comes back with thousands of pounds of rocks that he uses to make arrowheads and spearheads.&nbsp; He uses authentic tools and methods and the stuff he makes is virtually indistinguishable from real arrowheads, except that they&#039;re shiny new and he doesn&#039;t try to pass them off as authentic.&nbsp; He just appreciates the skill it took to do what they did back then and he takes pride in carrying on the craft.&nbsp; Anyone else who knows their stuff knows the amount of effort and skill that goes into making a 8&quot; spearhead, and the heartbreak that comes when you accidentally break it in half after investing 40+ hours into it, and have the cuts on your hand to prove it.</p><p><br /></p><p>One day another one of my uncles bought a few of those arrowheads you can buy at tourist traps and tossed them on the ground for his wife to find.&nbsp; She was sooooo excited that she found a couple of arrowheads.&nbsp; The next time she ran into my rockhound uncle, she showed them to him.&nbsp; It took him all of five seconds to say &quot;Where&#039;d you buy these?&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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