The corner notches are wide, expanding, and deeply cut at a diagonal and are usually well-rounded. The notches result in the formation of broad, bold and flaring barbs when in the new, unreworked condition. The shoulders project downward. The stem is expanding, having a convex basal edge and concave side edges and appears to be short in relation to the overall length of the point.
Some specimens exhibit only a slightly convex basal edge and others have a straight basal edge.
Blade edges are excurvate when the point is not reworked and then become straight to incurvate as the blade was resharpened several times. The classic holotype has tiny barbs on the basal corners. Grinding may or may not be present on the basal edge. It is believed that the preform for the Snyders point is the called the North blade. The Snyders is a Middle Woodland Hopewellian culture artifact .