1534 - Big Spalling with 3-1/2 lb Sledge Hammer on TN Creek Chert
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Flintknapping. Knapping rocks. Making stone tools. Arrowhead. Lithic reduction.
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WHAT IS HIGH GRADE STONE?
Anything you can run a 1/2" or more flake with a pressure flaker.
HEAT TREATING:
Heat treat a few FLAKES of everything you got except HIGH GRADE Raw Stone, Obsidian, Dacite, Basalt, Hornstone, Sonora, Fort Payne, or Rhyolite. Start with flakes and spalls less than 1" thick for 200°F for 24 hours to dry it out. Then raise the temp to 275°F and hold for 4 hours. Let cool down for 12 hours. Chip and compare. If no difference, put back I at 200°F for 1/2 hour, then raise to 275 for 1/2 hour, then raise to 325 for 4 hours.
Let cool down for 12 hours. Chip and compare. If no difference, put back in at 200°F for 1/2 hour, then raise to 275 for 1/2 hour, then raise to 325 for 1/2 hour, the raise to 375 for 4 hours.
Repeat with temp going up 50°F until you reach 600°F or nice chippable stone. Whichever comes first. If no good result, or things blow up, let us know. - Навчання та стиль
it's 02:30 o'clock in the night.
i would going out to the beach with my dogs and than it's knapp-time.
your channel is one of my favorite and you are my knapping-teacher. thank you
Keep the rocks. I want the pups.
Never even seen a flaky rock that big. you're just trying to make me jealous, huh? lmao
Man that first boulder was creamy looking. That little hammer is called a drilling hammer. I have one myself. For a different reason, but still a great lil hammer.
I wish. There is no creamy stone in this video.
That stuff is a dream for a Flint and Steel guy like me in New Zealand.😝🤘🌏🌏🌏🌿🌿🌿🥝🥝🥝 you guys are so blessed in the states.
Heat treat video.
At this time, I'm not able to heat this type of rock hot enough. It needs 600°F or more.
Patrick got a custom drilling hammer.
Yupper
Love the variety and of course the spelling
Whatcha gonna do with all that rock, all that rock, all that rock...
Awesome video. Really like the narration!
Thanks, Ken
Picturing you carrying that boulder to your van makes my hernia throb.
Yup. It's a gut buster
Dang bro your popping out the videos!! Love it
Awesome!! I've got big stuff the same...i can barely lift it. Mine are nodules straight out of the chalk face. They're much rounder and smoother,so very limited platforms to srike. I also have to try to skin them to get the high quality stuff. It's always such a conundrum on the big pieces. 🤔
I was hoping that you would put that in your lap and do a three hour giant blade video!😂
Ha! I wish
Kevin and the gang are exicted to be in the video
Oh yes
Like your audience! 😂
would have been nice to see the whole thing get done but thanks for the tease nana boo boo!😃
When it's this big, I never do the whole thing in one sitting. It usually gets messed up that way.
Looks like the stuff I find here in Dekalb Co Tn…is it porous? The stuff I find flakes easy but has “soft” edges. It heat treats to a pink color on the interior but the off white stuff doesn’t seem to change. Sometimes I find pockets of high grade material in it that gets like glass when heat treated. Anyways thank you so much for the videos!
Yes, this is from Tennessee. It's porous for sure. It has "soft" edges, but it's not easy to knap. I've tried heat treating, but it doesn't seem to improve much with the temps I'm able to achieve (below 500°F).
Die to find a piece of that.
Go to the Tennessee Classic. First full weekend in May, 2024. Chapmansboro, TN. They've got more of these.
Nice😎🤙
The dogs…
Oh yes
@@KnapperJackCrafty don’t hear them lately.
@mikemason4758 That's because the dogs are in Texas and I'm currently in Vermont.
@@KnapperJackCrafty I understand those changes. I just remember my dogs. Yapping along with them. It’s a subtle change I. Your videos. A subtle change in my experience. I put you on the 75” and sometimes I turn on the surround sound. Don’t get me wrong. Sometimes I’m okay with mine shutting up. lol. Got one that crazy for horses.
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There's them little ankle biters we have been hearing for so long. If this material is not heat treated is it not flakable or what? What does the heat treating accomplish structurally? Hope you had fun on your trip but It is always nice to get back home.
This material is very hard to knap if not heated. Structurally, heat treating increases the strength of the molecular bonds within the stone. This allows force to shear through the stone in a straight line when fracturing, instead of losing energy when the fracture is traveling in a zigzag around molecules trying to find the path of least resistance.
Did you say 1 was florida choral?
Yes
Did you get it out of the mcadoo creek?
Rush Branch
That does not look like chert...it looks like very fine grained amorphous limestone..
This stuff improves with heat. Does fine grained amorphous limestone do that?
Is that a vermont flint?
Tennessee "creek chert" of some type. It's very similar to Buffalo River chert.
@@KnapperJackCrafty I have never seen a node that big in my life
@Zane Fierro Many such nodes where this one was found. I will post results from the heat treat this week.
@@KnapperJackCrafty to me that's enough stone to last 3 years
@@Zane-It I can go through 80lb in about 2 weeks.
First! Muahahaahaaaa!
Woohoo!🎉
Wow! What incredible pieces of chert huge! 😁👊🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🪨🪨🪨
Hell of a rock wished it was mine 😅Gene Gorringe Mi 👍✌️🪨🇺🇲