Flintknapping: How to Conserve Material for Beginners
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- This video is for beginners learning how to conserve material. Flintknapping stone can be expensive, and so it’s nice to learn how to stretch out your precious pennies while knapping.
That obsidian is as black as a butcher's heart...
Simply beautiful
G'day thank for the video. Yours is one of the first channels to talk about hammer stone hardness. Nice info. I am a retired stonemason and stone carver now days so been looking into the whole primitive hunting thing. My bad back puts wearing chainmail and armour out of the question now days, so sold off most of my HEMA fighting gear. some light weight atlatl throwing on the other hand is nice and easy.
Another fantastic video Zach !!! I was wondering if we might get an ep 2 on beginners/intermediate flintknapping. Specifically how to build a body and or convexity into a point. As a beginner you start getting thin and then chase it till you just end up flat. I’d also just like to see some local artifact replication talk. Like the flake pattens and signatures of Southern California artifacts. Sorry I know that’s a lot lmao Once again thanks and have a great day !!
Nice little spalling video Zack! TY
Also it will give you better flake scars. But i love watching how other people use their talents .. gj and good video
Nicely done Zack!
Hey man. Dig your videos. I’m a knapper as well. Just wanted to though out that I live in the Eastern Sierra near Mammoth and I have access to tons of great quality obsidian if you ever need any.
I live in wv mountains we have a lot of round sand stone in are trout streams
A house on Glass Butte? That'd be sweet!
i live up in yuba co...great information
Make flintlock flints, you have good material for it.
Where can one find good material to practice with I wonder in my area, you know growing up my friend taught me how to look for artifacts like spear points, arrowheads, after it rains is when you go, and we lived in Virginia the western side in the mountains, so we would look for river bottoms that in the river bends there was a flat area next to it, and watched the fields, especially if they were tilled up ready to plant corn or whatever so they turned the ground over, and rains would cause the artifacts to show on surface. So anyways there must be material around here to work with because the natives did it. I just don't know if they heat treated stones, or went to special places to get the material, and I've seen all kinds of different colors, from dark to light grey, to both, to crystal looking
If you are in Virginia there is not very much good stuff like out west. The natives used quartz and quartzite most of the time however there are some chert deposits but majority are protected by archaeologists. Your best bet is to look at the types of cherts are available on a map and see if you can pin point a location. That’s at least what I have done
@@seanarthur2001 that makes the finds we found even more intriguing, I didn't know this growing up, I thought that the rock was just found locally then knapped into points, but now looking back at all the points we found, it's really incredible how they look like chert and flint from thousands of miles away. Makes you think of the trading going on thousands of years ago, or that they had secret quarries we never found, that they used to source them out of. But your right there's not much around here but chert, and only a few types of the tops of mountains that are weeks trip on horseback back then. Most looking plain mud greyish tints of red. But I've seen all types pulled out of the ground here, so it goes to show the vast trading system, plus the vast amount of time the natives were here, layers upon layers of stuff. Mind blowing
From alot of experience if you want a long point or blade ..you would have to attack only from the sides create steep platforms over center to take alot of mass quickly. Always attack middle last..
Oh and never attack the back , after thinning you will snap it 9 out of 10 times
I worked with the world's best knappers and my advice is sound.
Indirect percussion is over looked and will give you a bigger advantage on larger points and blades..
What the neck is an ergonomic flint knapper?
I suspect he meant economical, lol.
So after watching the whole video only thing i can make better is you need to start thinning and thinking of thinning from the start.. this would have give you a larger point or knife
Get a tile saw and slab your knapping material
I was thinking the same thing.