How to knap a flint

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  • Опубліковано 5 січ 2025

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  • @shannonludwick5738
    @shannonludwick5738 2 роки тому +2

    Perfect just got 9 new flints two of them I got to do already thank you very much awesome presentation

  • @harrycombs2724
    @harrycombs2724 Рік тому +1

    Thanks for the tip. I use a different technique and this is another new one I can use! Great video!

  • @brutalbob3982
    @brutalbob3982 3 роки тому +1

    Interesting take on refacing a flint. I'm lazy, I use a small belt sander we use to make fuel/nitrous lines for our engines. Put the Flint in a vise-grip and hold at the proper angle, viola all finished. The first six to eight sparks light everything up! I dress about every twenty-five shots. Thanks for the video.

    • @murphyfirearmstraining3630
      @murphyfirearmstraining3630  3 роки тому

      Never tried a sander. I was taught to do it with a flint knapping hammer and found this to be easier and more precise. I will have to try the sander with the saw cut flints, as they don't chip like this.

    • @brutalbob3982
      @brutalbob3982 3 роки тому

      Mr. Murphy, You are more well versed in this process than I am. I learned the process you demonstrated about sixty years ago. I only own two Flint rifles and shoot maybe three hundred rounds a year. Some of my friends have me sharpen their flints on the cheapie HFT one inch belt sander we use in the shop. Thanks again for the video.

  • @rcgray1957
    @rcgray1957 16 днів тому

    I'm glad I saw this, thank you

  • @TheModernDayMountainMan
    @TheModernDayMountainMan 11 місяців тому +1

    Longtime flintknapper here. Interesting method. I would recommend you use a copper flaking tool, and changing your angle of attack. Flintknapping is a game of angles and platforms. Hard steel makes it really difficult to reliably detach flakes. Copper is soft enough to grip the platform to detach the flake with control. Steel just bounces off of it, and you can create fractures in the flint which can cause your flint to prematurely self-destruct on impact with the frizzen. Also, if you spend a little time prepping, beveling, and abrading that edge into a continuous platform, and using a pressure flaker, you'll get a much more controllable and reliable result with a finer, sharper edge, and no crushing. Plus, if you keep control over that edge without crushing it, it makes it much easier to resharpen when you need to. You can also use this method on saw-cut flints, you just have to take some micro flakes off the edge to create a beveled platform to chip. That aside, I'm always impressed to see the methods folks come up with to knapp flint.

    • @murphyfirearmstraining3630
      @murphyfirearmstraining3630  11 місяців тому +2

      The fellow I learned this from specifically told me to use a common nail because ot was soft, for the same reasons you stated. May try to find a piece of copper and try what you describe.

    • @TheModernDayMountainMan
      @TheModernDayMountainMan 11 місяців тому +1

      @@murphyfirearmstraining3630 cool. Nails aren’t nearly as soft or grippy as copper, and you’ll notice a lot more control over your flake releases.

  • @howarddeheer8295
    @howarddeheer8295 Рік тому

    I had rifle flint go bad on two rifles at the same time so I got my box of flint it out ended up the new Flint went bad to. So I got some new flint last weekend

  • @peterisaacs1344
    @peterisaacs1344 9 місяців тому

    An excellent tutorial. Well done sir

  • @missionpreparedness1533
    @missionpreparedness1533 7 місяців тому

    Excellent instruction...well done.

  • @johnhoward7298
    @johnhoward7298 10 місяців тому

    Which throws a better spark ; a flint, or a fire steel ?
    The answer is obvious , it's the fire steel . So , how hard would it be to shape a fire steel to the profile of a flint
    ( and what would the result be, hint , which runs out in a bic lighter first , the fluid,or the flint )

  • @earlwheelock7844
    @earlwheelock7844 Рік тому

    Try to use a cement nail ( VERY hard steel and a dremle tool with cut off wheel to angle and sharpen nail) !!.

  • @kirkethridge2500
    @kirkethridge2500 Рік тому

    once when you said it was "taking a big bite off" you did 3 taps,, your tool was on the vice, not on the flint.. good video!

    • @murphyfirearmstraining3630
      @murphyfirearmstraining3630  Рік тому

      Kirk, good eyes. It is a lot easier when I put my head where the camera was LOL. I appreciate the support.

    • @kirkethridge2500
      @kirkethridge2500 Рік тому

      @@murphyfirearmstraining3630 i like your method better than doing it "on the lock".

  • @fernandocolio284
    @fernandocolio284 Рік тому

    why don't you use a sharpening stone or a file on the flint? you all doing too much work with that nail

    • @murphyfirearmstraining3630
      @murphyfirearmstraining3630  Рік тому +1

      flint is hard enough that a sharpening stone or file will not take off any of the flint........ That is why traditionally you chip off little pieces to sharpen it.