Flint Knapping Quartz Arrowheads
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Quickly Flint Knapping A Quartz Arrowhead (Spearpoint)
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Next time soak it in water for about a hour what I was taught and what was passed down to me is that my ancestors used to soak quartz and flint before knapping it won’t crumble and is sharp as hell don’t do sandstone this way I learned the hard way.
I’ll give it a try!
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It absolutely works. It's great for obsidian. And it helps with step fracture reduction.
Is quartz heat treated first?
I tried knapping quartz a fer years ago, ended up with piles of crumbs. I m impressed you made something useful. Cheers
A few years ago
Sometimes you luck out with this stuff
As always enjoyed watching thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks dude
Absolutely beautiful man🔥
Thank you :)
Yes. That's what I'm talking about. I have a few pieces I have found. I've been liking working local material lately. It's just a bit more satisfying.
Good stuff
Truly a beautiful point Jay! I'm not at that stage at all yet, but plan on it one day. I started to learn how to knap, just to make gun flints for now. When I master that, then I'll try my hand at making points. Thanks again for the vid.
Thanks John
Nice work
So awsome. Hope someday i can make one. Thanks for all your videos.
In north / central SC quartz is the dominate #7 hardstone - it's everywhere and is the dominate point material of the artifacts found here. But the attachment base is not the notched type, but almost always tapers to an elongated, oval or blunt end. Clearly, knapping with quartz can break your heart - to say nothing of the piece you've worked so hard on.
you don't have to hit it that hard 😂 I make quartz arrowheads daily. Alabama here!
Heheheh.
South of the fall line in South Carolina most of what we have is amber or rose quartz of varying hues in different locations. The more white stuff is further west, yellow in the midlands and south and rose in the upper midlands and further north. There are some deposits of agate very close to the Savannah River along the central Savannah River area and throughout history I imagine defending that resource was done often. There is some banded purple and grey chert near Barnwell and Allendale (Topper Site). Points from the banded chert has been found far away because quartz just sucks to work with but it's all we had in most locations. The thing is that quartz is hard to deal with but you *can* work with quartz. If it was totally unworkable I'm sure you'd see much more banded chert and agate from other places all over the state. I think it sucked but not bad enough for the trouble of trading for better stuff.
Also, we used a lot of bone and antler points here, as well as gar scale points but those
Thanks for the tips, north and South Carolina are on the list for this year!
The type of quartz u are looking for knapping is very particular. White is a good indicator but most instances like what you are working it is vein quartz which did not form correctly for knapping. In Virginia there many varieties but all the nice artifacts made from quartz are extremely glossy I would say it is inbetween crystal and vein. From what I have discovered is that the quartz that the native Americans were after was stuff that is in boulders or are eroded boulder material. I have spalled giant boulders I found out of creeks that the center material inside is really good. Keep in mind quartz was not a preferred material it was used out of desperation so most artifacts made of it are shabby but the few that were made with extreme care I believe were for showing off.
Amazing arrowhead, it looked like you had to hit that stone really really hard!
I think you might have a big chunk of vein quartz. That stuff usually looks nice but it's terrible for knapping. basically quartzite but with bigger crystals. I've hurt my feelings a few times trying to knap that stuff lol.
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To be honest i gave up on quartz. I just brake it down and let it decide what it wants to be. I mostly use it to start fires well camping because its everywhere
Break
It's called sugar quartz's all sugar quartz's does the same.
I am in the upstate of SC.. in the dark corners area north of table rock.. quartz is everywhere. Tips on what I’m looking for?
What are you using to hit it with? Sorry I’m new to this
A copper billet and a moose antler