Decided to try a cool challenge today! I make a complete arrowhead from start to finish in just 10 MINUTES! Hope you enjoy, feel free to leave your comments down below.
@@GulfCoastKnapping I've never been down to that one, but Jake Webster usually has a 10 speed at his knap in in Brown County, Indiana. Though, we usually don't finish points in 10 minutes, we just end up grabbing a point from our stash and everyone votes on the nicest one, then all those points go into our auction at the end of the night. Plus we do a community point where we all chip in(pun intended) on finishing a point from a spall. Just gets passed around the circle
I live near the flint river. I used to knap but it has been 13yrs. The past 10yrs I've seen a boom in modern knapping debitage on the banks of the river in Albany. I love that area. Most artifact dense region in the southeast
You did in ten minutes what I couldnt do in an hour 😂 its been a number of years since I did any flintknapping but watching these videos is really nostalgic! I always had trouble thinning pieces without them snapping 🤥 But great job!
after the past couple of days of binge watching knapping videos and seeing varying times it takes to complete them this was an awesome video to watch, i'd love to try this when i eventually I start knapping and get to a competent level, even try it periodically to see how i've improved over time
THAT. WAS. AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!! I wouldn’t have believed a Neolithic jewel could be done in so little time if I hadn’t seen it done in so little time with my own eyes. Awesome!
I randomly felt the urge to watch flint knapping today. It's truly so satisfying to watch and listen to rock against rock and copper on rock. Half of the time I don't understand the terms and phrases being used, but that doesn't bother me! I almost want to try out flint knapping myself, but I'm so anxious about all the health concerns and shards in lungs, so I'll leave it to the professionals! The ASMR is amazing! I've subbed for sure! 🥰
i recommend wearing gloves for new people and if your scared of getting stuff in your lungs keep your mouth closed when making big hits and by a good kit its gonna take a little bit to understand but its really fun i go hunting with them and they always work!
10 speed challenges are done at the Flint Ridge Ohio knap ins also. Memorial weekend, and Labor Day weekends. I don’t know how it’s done elsewhere, but at Flint Ridge all the participants put a rock in the center of the seating circle, then when the timer starts you grab any rock that’s not your own. Great fun to watch.
@@GulfCoastKnapping I am quite old, and was a kid in a time and a place where sex education was nonexistent. There were boys beginning puberty who used to think the most macho thung ever would be to “come” fastest in competitive w@&king. Really. Yes, you can do it but…why?
Impressive when I tried I kept Breaking the whole Piece in half very easy to do. You made it look easy. Truth I was knocking Crap stones against worst ones lol. Great job. Your honoury Cave man PFC
Had a professor tell me at a show that, if you find an artifact that Is absolutely excellent, the clan was doing very well. They had the time to dedicate to making it. You can imagine the need for tools was quite extensive and always in demand due to loss and breakage. I have found far more crudely (quickly made) points than I have "smokers" . I can guess that a certain skill level should also be accounted for as well.
That’s a fair point, if food and materials were plentiful, they could absolutely enjoy the process and take their time. But I find lots of crude points as well.
Good job I’m just a learner and I only work with Obsideian right now but man that’s good work you did, and I think you had like two minutes left you undercut yourself.
Ya got a bunch of arrowhead starting chips out of it. Lotsa cutting edges. I think you made an excellent Spear-Head ! If you stuck that into something, I'm SURE they'd get the point!
Just came across your channel. Buying my first flintlock rifle and I will need to learn how to sharpen my flints. Hoping your videos will help me. Enjoyed watching this video and I subscribed.
WOW!!!! That's perfect dude! It doesn't need to be paper thin.... i wish i could be that good!! The chemotherapy & radiation treatments made my hands sjake SO bad, it takes me 2 to 4 hrs to make one & then its not half as good as yours. I Really Really like your video! You leave me speechless!!!! Please make some video's on creating & setting up platforms. Thanks again Sir.
I know this is going to be a stupid question but what is the rock abrasion you do scratching the rock against your piece for? Does it help with keeping the flakes pop off in smaller more predictable pieces? Thank you for taking the time to show us the steps to create fine points.
Sure! Basically it helps remove a solid flake. If I don’t abraid the edge, it will just crush the edge when I strike it. But making the edge dull and strong will produce more force in the stone and break a clean flake👍🏼
I would love to see you do a Folsom point . I have several in my collection from a CENTURIES OLD Bison Jump Cliff from the mud bank just down stream and from the sand bar below the jump. Every spring after a big and I mean BIG FLOODING RAIN THAT BAR BELOW THE JUMP AND DOWNSTREAM IS LITERALLY LOADED WITH EVERY TYPE POINT KNOWN TO EXIST FOR THAT AREA. Sure lots are broken or discards but every season I come onto a hand full of real treasures. Amongst my prize finds are a full half dozen intact complete Folsom style arrow points (not as big as the spear type point but none the less deadly. I have 2 complete Folsom style spear points, and last spring I came onto the holy Grail for this area a obsidian knife still hafted in its antler handle ! The sinew binding was of course rotted and gone but the blade was completely intact and the (what looks like Deer of some sort ) Antler handle was still holding on to the blade. The Antler looks burned or maybe just blackened from all those years above water line where it was completely in cased in this hard clay like rock....it's not sandstone or just clay....it's hard but if your careful and have the patience you can remove it with water, dental picks and some brushes....I had it aged at the local State University and of course they tried and tried to get me to donate it to them and give up the location of this spot but if I do....the land owner (whom I have known since his father owned the land and we were classmates in school) will never let me on his property again ever....We have seen what happens when a fossil is discovered on your property and you donate it to the State University Museum of NATURAL History....so we're not going there. I have always been fascinated by Flint Knapping and how skilled these early indigenous people became at using what they had to make tools and weapons out of. See the funny thing about this Knife is sure it's Obsidian but the closest place you could find obsidian is in Wyoming....a long ways off from there so how that got turned into a beautiful actual knife shaped knife and wound up there is one of histories great stories that are best left to ones imagination. Another cool note is many years ago when the opposite bank downstream from the jump got grazed off badly by hungry cattle left in there too long and we had little to no rain that year.....you could plainly see dozens of big circles in the ground from above the jump.....you couldn't see them another time because of tall grass but that one year you could plainly see where the Indians would put up their Tents year after year as they moved through and hunted Bison by driving them off that jump....they could get enough meat there in the summer to last them through the longest of winter months. I've collected axes, 2 headed clubs with the grove in the middle where they would place a Ash handle and wrap it with sinew and hide soaked then hung to dry and it made a very formidable weapon....spear heads if it was flint and had anything to do with skinning or cutting it's in that area somewhere....just takes mother nature to bring it out once or so a year.
Great question! That scraping stone is called an abraider. It dulls the edge of the rock, makes it more blunt, less fragile. It allows me to draw a good flake instead of crush what I hit
I suspect the speed and constant progress in this video is much, much closer to the reality of knapping in the paleo period. Paleo Americans didn't have video cameras, so they didn't take a half hour between strikes like Jack Crafty does.
I'm getting better at it but I keep knapping it down to where I have the one side pretty flat but there is always a big piece of rock on the other side and when I do try to by it winds up being it off anyone have any suggestions Yet
Great question! The stone I use to dull the edges is call an abraider (abraiding the edge). The edges are naturally pretty sharp, and are too fragile to produce a good sized flake, so by rubbing the rocks together, I can dull the edge and produce more force into the stone, removing a larger flake. You can also you a grinding wheel to abraid, or just any old rock or sandstone. Hope this helps!
I use nearly every flake I draw off most of the time👍🏼 and yes I believe they did frequently. That’s why you find flakes littered across fields and streams
Nice you know the flakes are more sharper then the points makes you wonder if they did points for to impress and for show cause u can’t get no sharper then a flake I have often heard that the women made must of the tools and knifes and stuff because they had more time while the men hunted and gathered food but very well done I been trying to to it for a year now I have to order my rock I mess up a bunch trying to get better turn big rock into Little Rock I believe I should work on a chain gang lol about three more years I have it down I ain’t got patience and scared to mess up what Little Rock I can get
@@GulfCoastKnapping thank you. I definitely will. I can make decent points but my larger stuff breaks which i think ill have to use my thigh for the bigger pieces
Bravo ! : i was..on edge ..i suspect quick and dirty is often the way... You wasted 2-3 minutes yammering to the unwashed masses. , thanks ! - ... Is it normal to be hunting deer with a 5-6 inch point ? ...is that intended for bear ? Or ceremonial? And if it ceremonial would they refine the sharp edge ? Or dull it down for safety and osha an stuff...?
....knap shaming ? ...is that a thing ? Due to escanaba Michigan , the Indians around here , had all the copper they wanted , ...let's see , your clinging to your stone aged technology - it must be lonely at the top !?! Huh? ... btw I was looking for metiorites - but I found a hammer stone - hard hammer , with lite use an no chips ,,,its tsn to brown - my eye suspected the reds of rusty iron ; it's round to egg shaped slightly small for my hand , and struck 200-400 times...say 3-4 arrowheads worth...let me know if your interested..
