i personally havent seen too many vids where someone literally walks around their backyard, finds everything he needs in the wild and just builds something...they usually have some type of tool already....good job
You make it look so much more simple and approachable. Just walking around your backyard and finding tools and materials. Nothing fancy. It's not the remote wilderness or anything. It's great.
This is true skill. To be able to make something from natural materials with tools found in nature is so refreshing to watch. I'd like to see more of this in the future.
Great job on this video! It was inspiring to see how much you could accomplish with what you found in nature. Really makes one think about how our prehistoric ancestors gradually discovered all these techniques over thousands of years, handing them down from one generation to the next!
***** Thanks! I'm really spoiled out here. I think this may have been a trading route before as we've found nice black jasper, agate, obsidian, and fine basalt in this field. The only bad thing is pretty much everything big has been ripped open by a brush mower, including the nice large jasper, agate, and obsidian I've found. Plus if I want obsidian, I can always head over to Glass Buttes. Coming from Hawaii where nothing is knappable, I'm really spoiled up here.
Hi Nick, Been subscribed for a while, but this is yr best yet... Definitively more like this. I particularly liked the stone tools, I live in a flint area and one of the sharpest blades I have is a knap that I found in my garden... Cheers Steve (Sussex, England)
This is a great video! Very good idea, so accurately in the spirit of what an atlatl is. How did you identify that rock? I only find rocks that are not useable for splitting like that.
Hey Nick! I enjoy your videos a lot and hope you keep up the good work! I was wondering if you could make a video tutorial on sights for a pvc bow or if you had any tips for doing so. I was also wondering if you had any tips on accuracy. Thanks and keep up the good work!
This guy has some great books on making your own bows as well. Anyone interested in making your own bows from wood or even PVC should check the books out.
very jealous of the knappable material you've got laying around in your back yard lol what id do to be able to find knappable stone in my location!!! I do find some really nice arrow heads and spear points in my yard though but mostly are made from what looks like a pink quartzite and the makers skills were incredible for the material they were working with!!! it makes me wonder if they were offerings of some sort because theyre perfect and at times more than one nxt to the other ive got over 50 in my collection since ive moved in about 7 years ago!!! I have found obsidian as well but in small pieces so im not sure if im along a trade route or something as well as obsidian is not natural to my location!!! I took a trip to ohio earlier this year and brought back a few hundred lbs of chert that ive been working with over the summer im fairly new to the hobby so my skill level is not that great as of yet!!! I love your videos man keep em up!!! I hope to make a trip to glass butes az this fall to hopefully bring back a nice haul of obsidian to keep me busy over the winter lol!!! if anyone on here has any knappable material theyre selling please drop me a line as I buy up all I can get my hands on!!!
L.D. Johnson It did. The jasper was nice and I could have been able to do everything with just that, but it was nice having something easily chippable and large enough for chopping. Just the jasper alone would probably have doubled the working time.It's neat stuff and I wonder where it originally came from or if it's from this area. I have some Dacite from the Burns area that looks pretty similar to this stuff, but it's just a touch grainier and looks a little different. I think it's probably between basanite and dacite, not quite glassy enough to be obsidian and not quite tough enough to be basalt (though technically these are all volcanic glasses/rocks).
Could u make a video on how to color/ spray paint and gloss bows because I'm having trouble with trying to find a way to seal my bow , I keep reading that u can put a clear spray paint on it because it can chip off.
David Gomez If it isn't too whippy, that's fine. If the dart flexes too much, it could break in flight. If it is really flexible, you could make it shorter.
Omnifelix Thanks! I can make other tools as well. I've been making a lot of knapped tomahawk blades recently. If people are interested, I might do some more videos like this.
Iron Mongoose I've heard some say atul-atul, but I think the proper pronunciation is at-latul. I've heard both at-latul and at-ladl (or ad-ladl), with the second almost sounding like at-lal (the d sound sort of rolls and is barely heard).
Iron Mongoose Thanks for bringing it up, though! I feel it's good to try and pronounce things properly, especially words from other cultures. I try to say it at-latl. It's kind of like the Hawaiian work Ikaika. You could say eeka-eeka, but I would say eek-eyeka is more correct.
true im always trying to improve my own pronunciation and had an interesting one where a school was calling a guy eandres when it was enders ... and that was how it was supposed to be said but they whent with the spanish pronunciation when it was the german one
BackyardBowyer Do you've Hawaiian blood? I've known some people who lived in Hawaii but they never taught me that Hawaiian word, so I don't know what it means.
At 1:22 I thought he had turned into a demon or something, because just as he said "blackberry vines" some parts of his face turned red... I REALLY need to get some sleep :/
i personally havent seen too many vids where someone literally walks around their backyard, finds everything he needs in the wild and just builds something...they usually have some type of tool already....good job
You make it look so much more simple and approachable. Just walking around your backyard and finding tools and materials. Nothing fancy. It's not the remote wilderness or anything. It's great.
This is true skill. To be able to make something from natural materials with tools found in nature is so refreshing to watch. I'd like to see more of this in the future.
Great job on this video! It was inspiring to see how much you could accomplish with what you found in nature. Really makes one think about how our prehistoric ancestors gradually discovered all these techniques over thousands of years, handing them down from one generation to the next!
If our friend here, did all that in an afternoon, do you really believe it took "our ancestors" thousands of years to come up with it on their own?
I know what I will be tinkering with this weekend. Great video..
Wow. how brilliant is that. Thanks for showing us that.
Very nice, Nick! Really like your cordage...Love the fact that you can just walk around and find such good quality stone! Fun stuff!.....Ben
***** Thanks! I'm really spoiled out here. I think this may have been a trading route before as we've found nice black jasper, agate, obsidian, and fine basalt in this field. The only bad thing is pretty much everything big has been ripped open by a brush mower, including the nice large jasper, agate, and obsidian I've found.
Plus if I want obsidian, I can always head over to Glass Buttes. Coming from Hawaii where nothing is knappable, I'm really spoiled up here.
Excellent videos. Thank you!
One kick ass dude
George Cruz Na but he looks EXACTLY like me.. Like EXACTLY LIKE ME .. it's so crazy
Very cool. You're a badass wealth of knowledge, dude.
neonshoji Thanks for the kind words!
Holy crap!! So many likes and 0 dislikes! Well, I don't think it can be HATERS in here! You are awesome!
Great job. This is true survival!
You are my hero!!!!
Great video from Australia...
So cool! I would also love to see you make a knapped tomahawk! Keep up the great work.
Hope they are survival slippers! :)
WillEyedOney Of course! Complete with no-grip-slip.
This is some really interesting stuff. I hope you'll continue making more of these. Greetings from Finland!
Give it a rest Finland Mr T is ours! Lol just playing :P
Nice going... i need to give that a try too.
That was pretty awesome! Well done :)
Hi Nick,
Been subscribed for a while, but this is yr best yet... Definitively more like this. I particularly liked the stone tools, I live in a flint area and one of the sharpest blades I have is a knap that I found in my garden...
Cheers Steve (Sussex, England)
stevebrighton42 Thanks for the support! I think I might start doing more videos like this.
This is a great video! Very good idea, so accurately in the spirit of what an atlatl is. How did you identify that rock? I only find rocks that are not useable for splitting like that.
Impressive !
This is a very excellent atlat ; congratulations Nick :)
Enjoyed your efforts
Thank you for watching!
large dark stone looks and acts like like ramah chert, which is very commonly used for stone tooling. ( love the video btw)
hey mate keep up the good videos. from down under.
That was pretty dope
I love the more primitive style of video
Tyler Ferrell Thanks!
very very cool..
Very cool man.
God damn you are amazing man, keep doing these videos!!!
Dacite is a wonderful material to knap. Wish I had some.
You are so good.
Lukáš Benda Thanks!
Hey Nick! I enjoy your videos a lot and hope you keep up the good work! I was wondering if you could make a video tutorial on sights for a pvc bow or if you had any tips for doing so. I was also wondering if you had any tips on accuracy. Thanks and keep up the good work!
Love all the atlatl videos always wondered about them do you do flint napping as well if so can you do a how to video
This guy has some great books on making your own bows as well. Anyone interested in making your own bows from wood or even PVC should check the books out.
very jealous of the knappable material you've got laying around in your back yard lol what id do to be able to find knappable stone in my location!!! I do find some really nice arrow heads and spear points in my yard though but mostly are made from what looks like a pink quartzite and the makers skills were incredible for the material they were working with!!! it makes me wonder if they were offerings of some sort because theyre perfect and at times more than one nxt to the other ive got over 50 in my collection since ive moved in about 7 years ago!!! I have found obsidian as well but in small pieces so im not sure if im along a trade route or something as well as obsidian is not natural to my location!!! I took a trip to ohio earlier this year and brought back a few hundred lbs of chert that ive been working with over the summer im fairly new to the hobby so my skill level is not that great as of yet!!! I love your videos man keep em up!!! I hope to make a trip to glass butes az this fall to hopefully bring back a nice haul of obsidian to keep me busy over the winter lol!!! if anyone on here has any knappable material theyre selling please drop me a line as I buy up all I can get my hands on!!!
Finnaly you make something from wood.Very nice man continiue
CrazyWeapons Thanks! The funny thing is I started this channel in the first place for wooden bows.
You are great man i love primitive pows and arrows, and every king of weapon from primitiv to miedival time
Pretty cool man. Enjoyed watching this. New sub.
Awesome!
Great video is there any weapon you can't build...every video is full of great info..
Awesome
The first slab of stone you found was Dacite I think
That was a beautiful huge chunk of obsidian you found in that field. Must've made everything else that much easier once you had that, eh?
L.D. Johnson It did. The jasper was nice and I could have been able to do everything with just that, but it was nice having something easily chippable and large enough for chopping. Just the jasper alone would probably have doubled the working time.It's neat stuff and I wonder where it originally came from or if it's from this area. I have some Dacite from the Burns area that looks pretty similar to this stuff, but it's just a touch grainier and looks a little different. I think it's probably between basanite and dacite, not quite glassy enough to be obsidian and not quite tough enough to be basalt (though technically these are all volcanic glasses/rocks).
Nice job doing it with no manufactured tools!
damn, well made!
Could u make a video on how to color/ spray paint and gloss bows because I'm having trouble with trying to find a way to seal my bow , I keep reading that u can put a clear spray paint on it because it can chip off.
Hey backyard bowyer! Have you seen Lars andersons video on archery? I want to see you try his technique
great i love your videos
manuel silerio Thanks for watching!
nice. in a survival situation, i can now make an atlatl and dart...and i won't be able to hit anything with it!
The black rock you had it is a type of obsidian call dacite
How does the arrow sit on the handle? I feel Like I missed something.
How long is the dart?.
Did miss something? 🤔
its so hard to find knappable rocks in Ireland!
the large black stone is flint the light brown looked like chert
where did you learn all this? :)
Awesome vid nick just one question
-can I use a dart that is 5/16 ?
David Gomez If it isn't too whippy, that's fine. If the dart flexes too much, it could break in flight. If it is really flexible, you could make it shorter.
Okay thanks Nick !
Any chance of you putting out some knapping videos?
TheRealKingOfTigers I might, that sounds good!
1:43 i dont know why but i listened to you saying "sweet" about 10 times
I think that gray rock was dacite.
Impressive. Can you make a stone ax and other tools?
Omnifelix Thanks! I can make other tools as well. I've been making a lot of knapped tomahawk blades recently. If people are interested, I might do some more videos like this.
BackyardBowyer that's a grate idea. Can't wait to see this vids :D
I tried making on, and maybe the back is to heavy idk but it still flips over
Tetsubo57 sent me!
At 1:10, I thought it was a potato hahaa
You can make that one big black rock into like twenty million things .
i think the technical term for the atlatl is spoke "atlal"
Iron Mongoose I've heard some say atul-atul, but I think the proper pronunciation is at-latul. I've heard both at-latul and at-ladl (or ad-ladl), with the second almost sounding like at-lal (the d sound sort of rolls and is barely heard).
hum true ive heard it a few ways just sounded wierd to me when you said it atlatl
Iron Mongoose Thanks for bringing it up, though! I feel it's good to try and pronounce things properly, especially words from other cultures. I try to say it at-latl. It's kind of like the Hawaiian work Ikaika. You could say eeka-eeka, but I would say eek-eyeka is more correct.
true im always trying to improve my own pronunciation and had an interesting one where a school was calling a guy eandres when it was enders ... and that was how it was supposed to be said but they whent with the spanish pronunciation when it was the german one
BackyardBowyer Do you've Hawaiian blood? I've known some people who lived in Hawaii but they never taught me that Hawaiian word, so I don't know what it means.
Put this guy in hunger games and he would kill everybody
Put Him In With Joerg, And You Know What'll Happen.
+Raven John Borja joerg won't have any theraband gold.
thoughts....my thought is when the world finally goes sideways, I'm gonna find you and hang out!
It’s not an “addle” at the end of atlatl. This is a click “tl” not addle
Why dont you kill some spiders, break some leaves and put 3 sticks and 3 string in a crafting table? much easier.
At 1:22 I thought he had turned into a demon or something, because just as he said "blackberry vines" some parts of his face turned red... I REALLY need to get some sleep :/
oh, and that was an amazing video, as always. Great to see the improvised materials and tools!!
Very interesting plans for something like that I have found on the Stodoys website.
Looks like minecraft hahaha