Root Beer Chert Part 3/9, Antler Direct Percussion

Here I move away from the hammerstone to take large flakes and start using antler direct percussion instead. This allows me to better preserve the width of the piece while taking off nice long, wide thinning flakes that help balance the whole piece overall. Now I'm starting to think about the final shape of the piece, and perhaps what to make out of it. Any suggestions?
Thanks for watching. Cheers.
Here are the links to the other parts in the series:
Root Beer Chert Part 1/9, Initial Reduction with Hammerstone Direct Percussion - • Root Beer Chert Part 1...
Root Beer Chert Part 2/9, More Hammerstone Work - • Root Beer Chert Part 2...
Root Beer Chert Part 3/9, Antler Direct Percussion - • Root Beer Chert Part 3...
Root Beer Chert Part 4/9, Thinning With Antler Direct Percussion - • Root Beer Chert Part 4...
Root Beer Chert Part 5/9, More Thinning With Antler - • Root Beer Chert Part 5...
Root Beer Chert Part 6/9, Antler Indirect Percussion - • Root Beer Chert Part 6...
Root Beer Chert Part 7/9, More Indirect Thinning - • Root Beer Chert Part 7...
Root Beer Chert Part 8/9, Shaping the Pedernales Base - • Root Beer Chert Part 8...
Root Beer Chert Part 9/9, Breaking the Piece, And My Heart - • Root Beer Chert Part 9...
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Here are the links to the videos from the Silver Sheen Obsidian series:
Auction #2, Silver Sheen Obsidian (Lot of 4 Points) - Live until October 9th 2022 at 11:59pm EST - • Auction #2, Silver She...
Silver Sheen Obsidian Part 1, Initial Reduction with Hammerstone Direct Percussion - • Silver Sheen Obsidian ...
Silver Sheen Obsidian Part 2, Antler Direct Percussion - • Silver Sheen Obsidian ...
Silver Sheen Obsidian Part 3, Breaking the Biface but Salvaging the Pieces - • Silver Sheen Obsidian ...
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Below are the links to all the videos from the making of the Daysite Dalton I made previously:
SOLD for $60 - Auction #1 - Daysite Dalton - September 17 2022 - • SOLD for $60 - Auction...
20 Minute Daysite Biface - Part 1, Hammerstone Direct Percussion - • 20 Minute Daysite Bifa...
Daysite Dalton Part 2, Antler Direct Percussion - • Daysite Dalton Part 2,...
Daysite Dalton Part 3, Antler Indirect Percussion - • Daysite Dalton Part 3,...
Daysite Dalton Part 4, Knapping in Algonquin Park - • Daysite Dalton Part 4,...
Daysite Dalton Part 5, More Knapping in Algonquin Park - • Daysite Dalton Part 5,...
Daysite Dalton Part 6, Indirect Percussion and Pressure Work - • Daysite Dalton Part 6,...
Daysite Dalton Part 7, More Indirect and Pressure - • Daysite Dalton Part 7,...
Daysite Dalton Part 8, Even More Indirect and Pressure - • Daysite Dalton Part 8,...
Daysite Dalton Part 9, All Pressure Work - • Daysite Dalton Part 9,...
Daysite Dalton Part 10, More Pressure Flaking - • Daysite Dalton Part 10...
Daysite Dalton Part 11, Finishing the Point - • Daysite Dalton Part 11...
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And a link to some other videos I did in Algonquin Park back in May:
Algonquin Trip #1, May 2022 - • Algonquin Trip #1, May...
Algonquin Trip #2, May 2022 - • Algonquin Trip #2, May...
Roast Chicken Over the Campfire in Algonquin Park - Intentional ASMR - • Roast Chicken Over the...
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Here are the links to the videos from my giveaway series:
Stone on Stone Bifacing - 500 Subscriber Giveaway Part 1 of 14 - • Stone on Stone Bifacin...
Biface Thinning with Stone and Antler - 500 Subscriber Giveaway Part 2 of 14 - • Biface Thinning with S...
Making a New Antler Pressure Flaker and Using It - 500 Subscriber Giveaway Part 5 of 14 - • Making a New Antler Pr...
Picking a New Giveaway Winner, Celebrating 600 Subscribers! - • Picking a New Giveaway...
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And here are the links for the Acheulean series I did last:
Acheulean Handaxe from Raw Nodule - Part 1: Zigzagging the Edges - • Acheulean Handaxe from...
Acheulean Handaxe from Raw Nodule - Part 2: Thinning and Shaping - • Acheulean Handaxe from...
Acheulean Handaxe from Raw Nodule - Part 3: Finishing - • Acheulean Handaxe from...
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Here are the links to the videos in the Knapping at Çatalhöyük series:
Knapping at Çatalhöyük - Biface from Raw Cappadocian Obsidian Nodule (Turkey) - • Knapping at Çatalhöy...
Roughing out an Obsidian Conical Blade Core at Çatalhöyük - • Roughing out an Obsidi...
Removing Blades From an Obsidian Conical Core With Indirect Percussion - • Removing Blades From a...
Bidirectional (Naviform) Percussion Blade Core 1/2 - Initial Shaping - Knapping at Çatalhöyük - • Bidirectional (Navifor...

[@zoltanvonsomogyi7272]

Allot of work getting there, and it's looking good!
I can only find small pieces of Chert here. It's what the native Apache used, and I can only make small points so far.
That stuff is tough!

[@prehistoricliving]

Thank you Zoltan! What kind of chert do you find, where are you located? I buy almost all of my material, don't have a lot of good stuff close to me either.

[@zoltanvonsomogyi7272]

@@prehistoricliving the chert I find is white to light grey. I live in the Rim Country of Arizona, and I believe the Chert forms in the local Limestone in nodules. I only find small pieces when I'm out hiking.
I've found a couple of points over the years, and they have all been the same white material.
It's great for use with flint and steel for fire making as well!

[@prehistoricliving]

Interesting! Thanks for the reply. I have a similar situation, local chert that forms as nodules in limestone, it's hard to find a big piece that isn't all freeze cracked and messed up!