I started to say the view from the camera is great but you already know lol. I noticed that this video was uploaded 4 freaking years ago! I got to catch up and I’m not sure how to teleport 4 years into the future. Like always Pat beautiful work and very very educational for me. Thankyou.
Great video, thanks for showing that even in Texas the stone is not all ways top quality. I am in Jefferson Co. MO. and the chert around here usually works in the same manner. Lots of cracks, small and chunky. A friend of mine was in Kerrville visiting family for the holidays and brought me some nice looking tabular nodules from the Pedernalest river. I am sure they are going to be a whole lot of fun to crack today. Happy New Year
Happy New Year! Yeah, the "tabs" of chert are a lot of fun. They are excellent if they come from quarries below the frost line. That's less than 12" here but it makes a big difference.
Happy new year! Great timing on these videos. I just picked up some Onondaga from the beach, and that stuff has so many freeze cracks it's insane. I'm trying to film the spalling process but it's tough, Canadian winters have not been kind to those rocks. I need to wade out into the water to find some bigger intact blocks.
@@KnapperJackCrafty I can't say I blame you! You're right though I'd do just about anything to find good rock. I need to invest in some warm hip-waders to reach the good stuff here without getting hypothermia, though that would probably still be worth it ;)
Great video!!!!…just out of curiosity, where’d you find that piece of flint??…anything near that size around here we’re finding in the fields…and not much of that…
Do you think that the ancients may have started with a tool that was used as a razor sharp knife and as it dulled and was resharpened was eventually reshaped into arrow and spear points. The earliest form of recycling.
Olá boa tarde! Excelente vídeo👋👋👋.Você vende lascas de silix? Aqui no Brasil especialmente na minha região, não encontro pedras se silix. Preciso de umas lasca pra mim usar no meu kit de flint and steel.
i dont have large pieces of rock like that yet to work with. ive been practicing with landscape cobbles. most of which turn out to be flawed and cracked on the inside. and mostly rough and grainy texture inside. i did manage two bird points that I'm fairly proud of for my first two successful efforts.
in lapadary , you take a fresh slab and spank it pretty hard , to test fir hidden flaws ,as in do youwant to know now or when it goes flying apart under stress ...good works c yaz!
I started to say the view from the camera is great but you already know lol. I noticed that this video was uploaded 4 freaking years ago! I got to catch up and I’m not sure how to teleport 4 years into the future. Like always Pat beautiful work and very very educational for me. Thankyou.
Time flies
Great video, thanks for showing that even in Texas the stone is not all ways top quality. I am in Jefferson Co. MO. and the chert around here usually works in the same manner. Lots of cracks, small and chunky. A friend of mine was in Kerrville visiting family for the holidays and brought me some nice looking tabular nodules from the Pedernalest river. I am sure they are going to be a whole lot of fun to crack today. Happy New Year
Happy New Year! Yeah, the "tabs" of chert are a lot of fun. They are excellent if they come from quarries below the frost line. That's less than 12" here but it makes a big difference.
Happy new year! Great timing on these videos. I just picked up some Onondaga from the beach, and that stuff has so many freeze cracks it's insane. I'm trying to film the spalling process but it's tough, Canadian winters have not been kind to those rocks. I need to wade out into the water to find some bigger intact blocks.
I don't envy looking for rocks in cold northern waters but I fully understand. Nothing stands between a knapper and the quest for good material. Haha
@@KnapperJackCrafty I can't say I blame you! You're right though I'd do just about anything to find good rock. I need to invest in some warm hip-waders to reach the good stuff here without getting hypothermia, though that would probably still be worth it ;)
Another great video.
One day we need to sit down and break some stone again
Thanks. And yes.
Great video!!!!…just out of curiosity, where’d you find that piece of flint??…anything near that size around here we’re finding in the fields…and not much of that…
It was a gift, so I don't know where it was found. Central Texas near College Station, I would imagine.
Do you think that the ancients may have started with a tool that was used as a razor sharp knife and as it dulled and was resharpened was eventually reshaped into arrow and spear points. The earliest form of recycling.
No. All the cutting tools I've seen tend to re-sharpened down to nubs.
Olá boa tarde! Excelente vídeo👋👋👋.Você vende lascas de silix? Aqui no Brasil especialmente na minha região, não encontro pedras se silix.
Preciso de umas lasca pra mim usar no meu kit de flint and steel.
i dont have large pieces of rock like that yet to work with. ive been practicing with landscape cobbles. most of which turn out to be flawed and cracked on the inside. and mostly rough and grainy texture inside. i did manage two bird points that I'm fairly proud of for my first two successful efforts.
Awesome. That's a good way to start. I'll do more videos on this and make some weapons from small flakes.
Any material for sale? Medium or large flat rate of flakes? DM me if so
You'll have to send me an email first. jackcrafty2@gmail.com
There are no DM's here on UA-cam.
Why do mine have more cracks and internal flaws? lol
Just lucky, I guess. : ^)
@@KnapperJackCrafty yup I guess i would have no luck doom despair and agony on me
in lapadary , you take a fresh slab and spank it pretty hard , to test fir hidden flaws ,as in do youwant to know now or when it goes flying apart under stress ...good works c yaz!
I'd like to spank this rock for a bunch of other reasons but testing it to see if it will fly apart is a good one.... hehe
Your kids are looking at you seemling to say the nut is at it again breaking rock that we pee on LMBO
Yes.