1384 - Flintknapping Small Dacite Flakes

Flintknapping. Knapping rocks. Making stone tools. Arrowhead. Lithic reduction.
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Abo Technique (Natural Materials Only) My Horizontal Punch Style of Knapping:
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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.

[@KnapperJackCrafty]

My current tools:

[@williamclight4219]

You are not just a really good Knapper, your patter lines are the most informative and thought-provoking, and humorous on UA-cam. Hope you are around for a long time.

[@sticksstonesandalittlemeta3517]

A hunting point appears long before the beautiful even flake pattern with thin deep notches if you stop at the hunting point your success rate will be a lot higher. Now if your knapping for art you have to go way past the usible point stage

[@sticksstonesandalittlemeta3517]

I prefer your smaller stuff as I see no use for the big stuff no mammoth or elephant hunting where I live.

[@josephshaneferguson6561]

i know what you mean about the wrist ,i have two screws in left elbow ,it puts a strain on my arms but knapping is a lost art

[@bennybenitez3731]

This man Knapps so much I bet his last name is Flintstone🤔🤔😁

[@sticksstonesandalittlemeta3517]

JJ has 2 original videos that are edited to new videos every other day, so with your 1300 real videos you have infinite edits available

[@kenwintin3014]

Success may be a little wonky, but on the end of a river cane shaft it would kill a deer plumb dead.

[@jimgoodman1845]

Thanx4sharing.

[@kaibilbalam7151]

Progress not perfection)., half measures avail us nothing….🙏🏽👏🏽, point of the story

[@abadodo8468]

If you can't make one of these pads... and you want to flintknap... lol

[@theabhorrentchef7226]

I don’t have a shop or any real room for one where I live now. I knap in my kitchen on a 6x8 tarp when it’s dark or nasty outside. Sweep and dust after every session, but I still don’t walk in my kitchen barefoot lol

[@livinglife4309]

"We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents."

[@marycomeau9364]

1:22:52

[@johnalmager4252]

Thanks! Kinda newbie here. Already have a section of my patio full of flakes and many fails. After watching this , gonna be more conservative with flakes i keep. Amazing skill in your work.

[@arvilmogensen1945]

I am knapping Dacite. Using an exact replica of your Aluminum bopper and getting good results. If I made a video, mine would look like a surgical operating room. Blood everywhere. I knapped without a glove. Stupid me! Knocking off big flakes from Dacite spalls has my hands cut up with Band Aids on deep cuts.

[@bowens8903]

Should put the broke with it as a pair for the auction. Good work on the two of them. 👍 It's always painful to see breaks happen at the end of things, but it's reality. Keepin' it real.

[@crossroadsvideo7923]

Vermont!! Yes!!

[@billtr9317]

Thanks Jack I wondered if people used small flakes .

[@jeffggin4548]

I agree with Sticks, stone and a little metal too. You go beyond what would be asked already when you arrive a really beautiful triangular stage, and going that little bit further (putting notches in for example) and wind up breaking the piece. The craftsman in you gets you to a certain point where many would be happy with the results.... the artist in you pushes you a little further or sometimes too far and winds up in a broke. Don't get me wrong it's not a bad thing, but sometimes there's a point when you say "good enough: Stop!" Lol...ignore me I'm just ranting. Great video as always!