1507 - Flintknapping a Spall Artifact
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 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.
I really enjoyed watching this video and I am very glad that you did use my gift of stones. Thanks for your friendship
I agree some artifacts are begging to be finished or restored. I love to see old cars bright back to life by restoring and I like to see old cars that are all original and still functional. I don’t believe this man would ever mess with an artifact that is a well preserved representation of what the knapper intended it to be. He has too much respect for the art and I have nothing but respect for JC!
One of those looked like a broken folsom or fluted point of some sort.
Some would say blasphemy but I Diggit! Look forward to watching you knap this ancient spall. Hopefully a couple of the others or all. 😎🏹
Great knapping towards the end! Knowing when stop is a sin of maturity. That was a good piece of flint.
Roberto is happy as a lark!😁You made his day!!👍👍
Yeah, he was happy for sure. 😁
I find it plausible that practice, failed or damaged work would make a huge portion of surface finds. Good tools would be used and repurposed until they stopped being good for anything, more often than lost. And if lost they may be found and picked up at some point. Garbage tends to be thrown away and left there.
Enjoyed the commentary
Thanks Richard
They got little tiny arrow heads out here in Kansas, I think people used too tie rocks too the viny parts on Osage Orange Trees and that make the spindly little branches srtaight and very thin , so you go in museum and see very small arrow heads, like thumb nail size and very well made, lots of small game at the creek beds ❤
The tiny arrowheads spark up lots of interesting conversations. I need to make more of them on video.
Beautiful perform. Thanks for another quality video!
That belongs in a museum! Just kidding haha nice work!
We're you at the Brady knap-in? I've got your spall sitting there ready to knap.
I’m somewhat sure there were those guys back when saying “just grind it! Why not make uniform flakes in nice patterns?” And other guys ignoring/ mocking them all the while making wide bold flakes. I imagine there’s been some form of that conversation as long as people have been chipping stone.
Probably
Great video, Mr. Crafty!
Thanks, Ken
Very nice work. Those artifacts look cool. But it does look like a practice session for someone. 🤔 Non the less very interesting and nice to observe. Regardless.
I had a guy just about to go to blows because i knapped some rock i collected from a site that i was hunting artifacts in. It was gravel with only a checker flake on one corner. I took him to my stash and told him to find the stuff that was abo sourced and if he was right, id let him have it....he failed miserably and blamed me for not admitting it when he selected one. I don't rework anything i find that is certainly an artifact
what do I sound cranky nah! just an old vet in pain
I know how you feel .
Still watching the vid. But, man! I likey!
I have limited access to a huge Indian camp just North of where that rock came from.
From what I've seen, abraiding can be subjective. But certainly more prevailant in later stages.
The debitage I find is heavily ground. I think a lot may have to do with the material.
I did find an errent spall between the normal spalling area and the camp.
As though someone carried it, by-passing the other work areas and dropped, or curated it in camp. It was abraided all around the edges. Likely to protect the hands during transport.
Anyway... Normally, I won't knap an artifact. But being the type of knapper I am, and being of a curious nature, I want to know more about the lithics they actually used. So, I saved some spalls for knapping. And studying.
The amount of debitage and unused/discarded spalls and quarry blanks out there is mind blowing.
For over eight years, I saved every peice if debitage I produced while flintknapping.
I have a densly packed/settled pile that is over three feet deep and 10 feet or more in diameter.
Now, imagine a lifetime of knapping, over thousands of years. Multiply that by how many knappers...
Even the old ones raided debitage piles for tool stone. I know I do with mine.
Well, getting back to the video. TTYL.
Interesting observations there, Ken. I'd like to see that abraded artifact.
Well. I can't attach photos here. I'll send it to you.
That looks like rootbeer chert
Almost. Rootbeer is darker.
What about the hammerstone with groves worn in them? Almost every one I find here has the groves in it
If you've got pictures or videos, I'd like to see them.😁
If the location was a place where the young where being taught why woul it be exceptional for the wonky bifaces to be left behind. Wouldn't the good ones have been taken with them to be used later?
If the stonebis eating aluminum's lunch what would it do to antler?
I'm not sure I understand the first question. In the second question, anter gets eaten up really quick when I knap. I go through tools monthly where others wear through them yearly.
Maybe how much you need to abrade it depends on how good your striking technique and they had better technique than we do with more experience and cultural objectives like whacking away valuing the skill building more than individual piece ?
Tools that require a lot of skill to produce have to compete directly with sharp flakes that require very little skill to produce.
I have knapped pretty points from old waste flakes of local materials, Material that was moved way out of context by modern excavations and modern
man created flooding
Why would you not use it ?
I think it should be used. How else are we going to learn about the quality of the old boys' stone unless we knap it?
Exactly ! ... and how to use the tools
1:15 looks like a good start probly waiting on thinning advice? Im less than noob still looky loo
My favorite spalling video ever:
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Thanks!
Artifacts are to be preserved not desyroyed
I'm finishing what someone else started.
Why not make something great out of something that was meant to be great? It's an artifact that laid broken and forgotten in the dirt for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. Fix it, make it beautiful, Injun Joe would be proud to know someone finished something that he once held in his hand. But I'm the dumbass that thinks the nose on the Sphinx should be restored, the pile of stone rubble at the base of Rushmore should be removed, and trees planted.
Thinness is over rated.