I love knapping tile....but man is it easy to step fracture and hinge, you have to have very well established platforms and hit it hard at the right angle. Some tile will be made of great high grade porcelain but the veneer (shiny side) permiates very deeply making it difficult to knap. I found some tile that is paper thin, the grain is very fine but the veneer side is verly impossible to run long flakes on, the non veneered side knapps just fine. Using indirect as well
If the side is 90° to the top and bottom flats, and you take flakes from both sides to make an edge on the centerline, then the angles would be close to 45° or 90° inclusive. 😁
That Georgetown you sent me is very different than my native local obcidian. First pice came out pretty good but I couldn't get the flakes to run far. This stuff I grew up on is much easier to Knapp, however much easier to break. I think part of the problem I was having is I need steel tools to hit much harder. I was using wood/copper flakers and honey locust percussion. Still awesome none the less.
Looking forward to part 2. Usually when I find tile in creeks it’s too small for me to mess with. (But tile is in creeks too!) maybe if creek crawling in an area with old factories 🏭. 🤔 strangely enough I often find it on the shoreline oceanfronts
My wife said why are you smiling looking at the video your watching. Well, it is because the CRAFTSMAN is giving us a masters course in knapping. With a little humiliation thrown in. Nope it isn’t the best rock, not the best tools. Nope it is a whole lot of practice. Look back at Patrick’s earliest videos 8 or so years ago. Between 8 years and today, practice. Hours and hours of practice. We get 90% of what he 8 years ago communicated pretty quick, but the last 10% that changes the end result to something amazing is “experience. “ Look back at Patrick’s earlier TILE knapping video to see what experience does. Yes Patrick, all that is left is for you to knap a point with a Swiss Army Knife, or a Dinner Fork. Ha! Ha!
Like the mic, i like the other veiw better , i think i like metal tools better, i can see that you change the amount you drive the point into the material from the other veiw aswell but as always thanks for the effort and talking about it too Also when it comes to mics i prefer wires over wireless and i have real life experience with both
@@KnapperJackCrafty the reasons behind not liking wireless mics, first your phone has to work harder ie the bluetooth is a rf connection so your running a minitransmitter and reciever then once recieved it (the phone) has to think about the audio received to write it down. That thinking about time can cause a delay think old kungfu movie lipsinc. The second point would be rf interferences that can occur, microwave ovens, other bluetooth users, ham radio and cb radios lots of things could yet into that bluetooth linc. Then the final reason would be the battery on the wireless mic runs out of juice in the middle of your recording. So yeah wires are better for recording audio unless your worried about yanking them out of the mic or recorder.
ahhh cool. usually when i cant sleep i do truly enjoy watchin ur vids, lits like hanging out with a bud i dont have here. i know i am tryin to be in controlled blur mode but...... my concavity is crunchy munchhie with freeze cracked dippleations ohhhh damn this thing is becoming mc escher with step fractures, musta been the dank on my antler thangey.....cereal though, i actually pressure flaked a flake tonight, more than i done forever in this hellish heat n draught. gettin better. just need to rock through thar 500 pound of rock.....and damn, got so drunk i lost my fearher....oh welll find it tommorrow.....also..... good to see u back with metal tool. u rock it that way bud. so much to say but i would be ramblin....
That white layer IS glass. Porcelain enamel. You can see the conchoidal fracture when you chip it.
Yeah, makes sense
I love knapping tile....but man is it easy to step fracture and hinge, you have to have very well established platforms and hit it hard at the right angle. Some tile will be made of great high grade porcelain but the veneer (shiny side) permiates very deeply making it difficult to knap. I found some tile that is paper thin, the grain is very fine but the veneer side is verly impossible to run long flakes on, the non veneered side knapps just fine. Using indirect as well
Interesting. And I thought I'd never hear anyone say that they "love" knapping tile. 😁
So is this video backwards, or are all the normal videos backwards? It's weird seeing you left-handed.
Yup. This one's backwards. But not the normal videos
That was really helpful. I do apreciate the time given to us learners. Thank you very much.
You're very welcome
If the side is 90° to the top and bottom flats, and you take flakes from both sides to make an edge on the centerline, then the angles would be close to 45° or 90° inclusive. 😁
That Georgetown you sent me is very different than my native local obcidian. First pice came out pretty good but I couldn't get the flakes to run far. This stuff I grew up on is much easier to Knapp, however much easier to break.
I think part of the problem I was having is I need steel tools to hit much harder. I was using wood/copper flakers and honey locust percussion.
Still awesome none the less.
Great vid. Just wondering, i cant easily get flint etc, but I have some tiles. Would tiles be good to learn on?
Tiles are ok. It's probably the best free stuff there is, other than glass.
Really good letting us see from another angle really helped me 👍
Glad it helped
That tile looks thick
Yes. It's the thickest I could find. I'm sure there is a thicket variety. I only looked for 5 minutes.
Tanks and bowls are made with the same thing in the same place with different molds. my buddy used to work in a place that made toilets
Learn something new every day
Looking forward to part 2. Usually when I find tile in creeks it’s too small for me to mess with. (But tile is in creeks too!) maybe if creek crawling in an area with old factories 🏭. 🤔 strangely enough I often find it on the shoreline oceanfronts
Hmmm. I find lots of bricks but no tile... yet.
Thank you!!!!!!
Yay!!!!! Are we done with "antler guy" stuff now, and back to working with good tools?
Some times...
My wife said why are you smiling looking at the video your watching. Well, it is because the CRAFTSMAN is giving us a masters course in knapping. With a little humiliation thrown in. Nope it isn’t the best rock, not the best tools. Nope it is a whole lot of practice.
Look back at Patrick’s earliest videos 8 or so years ago.
Between 8 years and today, practice. Hours and hours of practice. We get 90% of what he 8 years ago communicated pretty quick, but the last 10% that changes the end result to something amazing is “experience. “ Look back at Patrick’s earlier TILE knapping video to see what experience does.
Yes Patrick, all that is left is for you to knap a point with a Swiss Army Knife, or a Dinner Fork. Ha! Ha!
Like the mic, i like the other veiw better , i think i like metal tools better, i can see that you change the amount you drive the point into the material from the other veiw aswell but as always thanks for the effort and talking about it too
Also when it comes to mics i prefer wires over wireless and i have real life experience with both
Good to know
@@KnapperJackCrafty the reasons behind not liking wireless mics, first your phone has to work harder ie the bluetooth is a rf connection so your running a minitransmitter and reciever then once recieved it (the phone) has to think about the audio received to write it down. That thinking about time can cause a delay think old kungfu movie lipsinc. The second point would be rf interferences that can occur, microwave ovens, other bluetooth users, ham radio and cb radios lots of things could yet into that bluetooth linc. Then the final reason would be the battery on the wireless mic runs out of juice in the middle of your recording. So yeah wires are better for recording audio unless your worried about yanking them out of the mic or recorder.
Glaze is what it is called
Just got some really nice points in the mail today, thanks 👍
My pleasure
I’ve got some old tube tv glass. It’s about half an inch thick. I’d love to send you some to see what you think of it.
Got some already but thanks!
I am ruined. I see adz blades every time I see an end snapped point
Oh yes
Glaze
hey man it's not natural natural is better man you know it is steel sucks man lol there you go they have said it
It ain't in nay-cher. Looks odd. For cereals.
ahhh cool. usually when i cant sleep i do truly enjoy watchin ur vids, lits like hanging out with a bud i dont have here. i know i am tryin to be in controlled blur mode but...... my concavity is crunchy munchhie with freeze cracked dippleations ohhhh damn this thing is becoming mc escher with step fractures, musta been the dank on my antler thangey.....cereal though, i actually pressure flaked a flake tonight, more than i done forever in this hellish heat n draught. gettin better. just need to rock through thar 500 pound of rock.....and damn, got so drunk i lost my fearher....oh welll find it tommorrow.....also..... good to see u back with metal tool. u rock it that way bud. so much to say but i would be ramblin....
Haha... haha 😆