How to Flint Knap an Obsidian Arrowhead
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2016
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I've been knapping a lot of arrowheads lately and started making arrow pendants, so today we'll be knapping an arrowhead out of a piece of mahogany obsidian from Central Oregon. I ended up getting two similar points out of the same piece plus a bunch of flakes for smaller points and blades.
Thanks for watching and enjoy!
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I was holding my breath as I watched you apply the finishing touches to the arrow head. The possibility that after all that work it might break was almost too much to bear. Glad it turned out as well as it did. Cheers, b.
Me too! Haha!
Nick, you are not only extremely talented, but a great teacher!
I'm wanting to try my hand at flint knapping and I'm doing a lot of research before I make my first attempt. I found this video very helpful. Thank you.
Beautiful work wow...! My grandfather was from Maine and was native Indian he made wicker baskets and birch canoes..
Budy you are an artist! I'm not at all into knives or bowes and the like, however I am fascinated with your videos, you are an awsome teacher and make it look so fun! Keep up the great work.
Thanks for watching!
Hey Nick. I have done a few of your builds from your instructions. Your videos are always easy to follow and understand. I am rewatching all your knapping material now as I have decided to get into knapping. I have built my own tool set and am practicing. Thanks again for your no nonsense approach to instructions as well as inspiration.
Man, Nick, you have some amazing skills! Very nice work!
Thank you!
Hey BackyardBowyer, you are my favorite UA-camr because your videos are so easy to follow along to. I made my own 40 pound bow based on you gull wing bow video. Thank you soooooo much, you are a great inspiration to me
Nice! I'm glad my videos have helped. Good job on the bow.
Dude you are crazy talented and hard-working. I don't even like making bows and arrows and I've never even held a bow. Keep doing what you do, I love it.
Love your channel and books. Thank you for your knowledge on flint napping and pvc as well as your traditional bows. Keep up the awesome work
Your skills never cease to amaze me. I think you will survive the apocalypse.
Dude that's so cool, I've never seen anyone do that before. You make it look pretty easy, good job bro:)
I never knew that was how arrow heard where made, thanks for enlightening me
This is among the very best introductory videos on flintknapping I've seen so far.
+BackyardBowyer Hi Nick, i just wanted to say that you could use your stone more efficiently by shaping smaller flakes rather than big chunks. This way you can make more point per nodule.
Very nice Nick - I just finished several glass arrowheads for my penetration test and I know what your talking about, very sharp! I was not aware of your knapping skills, very impressive!
Outstanding Nick! Nicely done.
Nice job Nick. You make it look easy.
Wow, this is simply amazing. Very well done.
Fantastic video. Always enjoy them
I think you explain everything that's going on here better than every other video I've watched from other people.
That's a beautiful piece of stone. Came out looking fantastic!
Very nice work Nick. Turned out beautiful.
That clarified a lot of stuff including flint knapping terms. Just broke out a kit that i got for christmas 2 years ago... ive alwwys been concerned about durability of the arrowheads though
This video is so relaxing to watch that I had to watch it 2 times.
Looks really cool.
You make it seem so easy man. Apreciate your experience!
Very informative, great video!
What a beautiful piece! You made this look so deceptively easy. I am sure when I start attempting this with bottoms from bottles I will break many before I would risk a great piece of obsidian like that. Wonderful work.
Nick, your videos are fantastic. I always look forward to seeing a new video from yourself ! keep up the great work bud !
Absolutely mad skills....
the material is beautiful. !!@ it's colors blew me away !!
Thanks! It's amazing how many different colors, patterns, and effects obsidian can have.
That's a beautiful piece of obsidian and very nice work, Nick...
Beautiful job looks perfect I like that arrowhead well done.
You are a true master!
this is actually so sick!!! i wanna make one now
Fascinating! Thanks for doing this!
Excellent work!
That's awesome! thanks for sharing.
liking this video . and would love the glass idea too
Thank you, clear,great detail.
This was awesome! Thank you so much.
that is a beautiful piece.
beautiful ! i love where this channel is going .. keep it up !
woww! it's fantastic, congratulations!
wow you really have grown in your knowledge.it seems you have a wonderful teacher or elder.any the case you have surprised me in all of your vidios I've watched them all and thank you for showing the world your craft .I'm amazed.
I love all your vids.
Great work nick your an inspiration ! you've got my kids off their xbox's an into making bows ect thankyou.
You make it look easy my friend
Beautiful work
Amazing Nick! I have a long way to go but this helps. Simple and easy to understand directions. Keep up the great work!!
Thanks,
John
+John Kiryanoff Awesome! I'm glad the video has been a help. Thanks for watching!
It looks like you know exactly what you're doing. Great work! Greetings Manfred
great job🏹
Fascinating ! You really have a talent. Thanks.
Thank you sir!
another great vid Thanks Nick!
that was excellent flintknapping can be tedious work but the outcome is fantastic , that was a beautiful stone , who knew a arrowhead was hiding inside .
absolutely love it!
Nice work!
That is really awesome! Thank you for the tips!😃👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
This was awesome! I'm currently writing a sci-fi fantasy novel that involves a culture of people who evolved using obsidian tools, knives, spears and arrowheads. I had no idea how this work could be accomplished with simpler hand tools as opposed to cutting with diamond saws. This really helped fill in some blanks for me. Thank you.
That is very cool! Im glad it could help!
As a archaeologist that can't knap a single flake I'm impressed with your abillity
Thank you!
Fantastic job..
Wow that was badass you have some real talent , im still learning how to do this hopefully one day ill be as good as you are👍👍👍💎
truly an art requiring lotta patience and skill.
Good demo vid Nick, Native American Indians used Obsidian for arrow heads, nice one, atb, Paul.
So rad.
Great video as usual! Keep it up!
Thanks!
pretty cool stuff, enjoyed this vid a lot.
really nice piece man
Thank you!
Very nice simple point!
I have always loved points made from mahogany obsidian! They are beautiful in the colors hey produce as well as being very sharp as all obsidian points are!
When I was a little boy in the 60s, our family and one or two of the other families in the small town I grew up in would go out onto the Red Desert and hunt for arrowheads, often finding Clovis as well as Solutrean style points and also, many of the super refined points from real scientists in their field!
Much of what we did then would be a crime, nowadays but, back then, we were just being amateur Archaeologists as many of us got into studying the different types of points we found!
We found a few of what, at that time, were known as Eden Points!
Whether that terminology still exists, I don't know but, they were some of the most refined and well made points we ever found! Beautiful, long and extremely well crafted! Not to mention some of the sharpest of the points!
When I was 9, my mother and I visited relatives in North Carolina and we checked out one of our cousin's tobacco patches after a rain! WOW! We found over 300 points in about 45 minutes!
They ranged, in degree of workmanship/craftsmanship, from almost unrecognizable as an arrowhead to points that weren't quite as good as those from our area of Wyoming, but their technology was getting very close to that!
Thanks for posting this video!
I an always interested in the different techniques used by the many different knappers!
One of our good friends is Tom Lucas, who has made a study of Native crafts for the last 50 years of his life! He is the first of several who figured out how to make the Big Horn Sheep horn bows that were used by the Sheep Eater Indians of the Wind River and Big Horn Mountain ranges in Wyoming!
He also has been knapping chert and flint and obsidian for around 40 years and is a master that can easily equal the Eden Points! I have watched him make beautiful hunting points, spear points and knives, for almost 30 years and I have learned a lot!
That said, I learn a bit more from each of you, when I watch your videos!
Thanks, again and best wishes!
Kim Curtis Thank you for watching and for sharing! That is awesome!
Looks nice.
Cool demo dude.
You're a pretty talented guy!
that is some impressive work, I had no idea there was a whole new vernacular for knapping
Oh Wow ,, great job,,,
keep up the good work. ..
Great vid & skills 👍🏼😃
Thank you!
Danm ... you are a man with a lot of talent's and skills ...
many many thanks for showing ...
and keep up the good works ;-))
Great video.
great stuff that nick.I've gotta try knapping sometime.
That looks like mahogany obsidian, nice.
Very good.
this is amazing
Great video! :)
Sabía para que se usaba la Obsidiana pero nunca había visto como se trabaja en ella. Gracias.
Wau, sieht echt gut aus 👏🏻👍🏻
Very nice
Really nice work! And I envy your materials. In the Northeast, the best we have locally are cherts. Not to undersell cryptocrystalline quartz, but it's not obsidian....
All I have is Quartz and I have found flint once but I had to dig for it but it was real flint and if had a fossil in it
its hard for people that live in the eastern united states beyond the appalachian mountains because we ain't got any knappable stone,with the exception of quartzite
Hi Nicholas I really like your videos and they are awesome. I have started to get into flintknapping but I have no idea where to get the supplies for it. I would really appreciate if you could tell what to get and where to get it and where to get obsidian. Thank you and as always, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! (And flintknapping!)
I use a dremel with diamond bit pieces to thin out my flint, chert, and everything that I can use
very nice job
Thanks!
beautiful
I mostly make myself steel arrowheads but I always like a refresher on flintknapping incase SHTF and I can't make anymore arrows with steel heads
Good job. Sadly most of my knapping involves a couch or a bed, but on a nice day I wouldn't turn down a lounge chair outside. You should do a knife and hand axe video or two.
Haha! Thanks for the suggestion.
Maybe try to make an obsidian knife! That be something worth seeing!
He made an obsidian knife blade last year. Search it on his channel.
+Matt Damon no
amazing
Thanks for watching!
great job! you've learned a lot in very little time, from what I can tell on your channel
gregpryorhomestead Thank you!
Major informative and what a cool think to do. What advise can you give a total amateur regarding acquiring knapping tools.?
thanks this qas a good tutorial
You make it look so easy, i would have ruined it on the first wack lol.
I want one.!