1377 - Flint Knapping Odd Gravel and Other Goodies 

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Anondaga and Esopus cherts are fairly easy to get in NY. When I go back to Vermont, I'm going to stop in NY and try to get some. It's not bad. Mostly smaller chunks, though.

I find quite a few nice flint nodules randomly along mid coast Maine. They are grey/ tan/ white and about the size of large softballs to football size with green/green grey insides. Although not native, ships used to use it for ballast and dump it, many of them wash up along with similar sized cobble in the gaps between ledges. I have found them from Bath all the way to Boothbay. I find the most between Pemaquid and Friendship. Most of it knaps pretty well.

I wish rock was that good in TX. Yes, there's a lot of chert, but most of it is nasty.

Thr stone in the thumbnail is actually quite good.

Yes, my name is Patrick. Merry Christmas to you too!

Sounds good.

True.

Thanks

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Or, strike it two more times and make it symmetrical again. 😅🤣😂🤣😅

@@docv73 Easy Peasy

Yes.

You can get 30mpg if you knap glass or Obsidian. 😁

​@@KnapperJackCraftycan't afford obsidian. Knapped glass a bit; best results I got was from a big thick vase someone broke at the restaurant where I'm a dishwasher. Yeah, I can see why that would be the 30mpg, and like with my motorcycle I'm a lot more likely to get cut up if I mess up or do something stupid. Need to find more colorful glass because I don't like those ghost flakes, but I think the churches wouldn't like it if I busted up their windows for material.

@@petercoene5930 hehe... 😆

@@petercoene5930 have you seen this website or the Obsidian? www.kentuckyflintworks.com/Obsidian.html It's pretty cheap.

@@KnapperJackCrafty I had not, and will keep in mind when I've got a little bit of dough to kick around. At the moment I've gotten most of my stones from planters and stuff around gas stations and fast food places and stuff like that, but have to be really choosey because most are too small or the wrong shape or both. Or like with the glass, if something breaks at work I use that. Not a whole lot of lava flows to go to here in Louisiana.

Yeah. Probably

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Hehe 😁👌

I'll try

@@KnapperJackCrafty thank you!

On purpose?

@@KnapperJackCrafty My lame attempt at a joke. You're absolutely right about how much waste there is trying to make large blades. Here in Pa it seems that was mostly done at the quarries to make the material easily transportable.

@@KnapperJackCrafty Occasionally bouncing around in my brain is something you said about hunting being incidental to the manufacture of arrowheads. I think it was you. An idea that requires further contemplation for sure. To what extent was tribal warfare a driving force in flint projectile manufacture?.. A good question... I'm learning more from RU-vid knappers than from main stream archeology. A field that gets stagnant and likes to repeat the same common tropes all the time as you well know. Your insights into some of this stuff is amazing. Doing some thinking between the knapping and yapping?.. I'm 61 and have been doing auctions my whole life if you want to talk about that sometime. If your used to driving from the east coast to Texas there are some good $ making possibilities. Needless to say I wouldn't do it with an empty vehicle.

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@@KnapperJackCrafty If yes, Well Done!

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I know exactly what you mean.

True. The only time I've seen big blades shown in actual Native American context (stone relief carvings in Mexico) is with priests and warriors.

@@KnapperJackCrafty oh yeah I totally forgot about human sacrifice and status symbolism being another use for big knives.

There is no doing wrong. Either a really great point emerges from the stone or it doesnt. If it does, it's definitely all right.

He's showing us the wrong way so when we do it the wrong way we will know we are doing the wrong way the right way.

@@flipflopski2951 that's nonsense. When you're talking about knocking flakes off of a rock with the specific intent of making an arrowhead, the Right way is any way that makes an arrowhead. Van gogh's and Renoir were both impressionists. They did not paint alike, but they both created art. Its foolish to say a person who creates art is doing it wrong.

@@kensanity178 Yes it is nonsense but that's the way I usually respond to obvious trolls.