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Wonderful and inspiring! Can't wait to make some tools and get started on something I've wanted to learn since I was a kid in the 60's! Thanks for taking the time to create and share this.
Glass flak in the eye would be really painful and cost an emergency trip to the hospital. And some sleepless nights. Eye protection is very important I like the blue 🔵 color nice work. Thanks for showing this craft.
@@American-Plague Oh yeah, Coupled with the CRT and the Flyback in them. They are great for electronics projects too, or as a dust collector, by simply turning them on 🤣
Ahhh, one of my favorite materials to work with when I started knapping. It's really neat to look at finished arrowheads made from blue, green, brown and red glass bottle bottoms. I've read that Native Americans broke the red glass out of railroad lanterns to get material to make arrowheads. Nice video :)
Australian Aborigines also used to climb the poles of telegraph lines and steal the glass insulators causing the lines to suddenly go dead. The repairmen eventually solved this problem by simply leaving a couple extra glass insulators at the bottom of the poles. 😎
Very helpful, I am fairly new to knapping and love seeing all of the different techniques people use. Forming a rectangle is very smart for starting with a thicker glass bottom, I will try that next time I use thicker glass.
i know i still have a whole lot to learn ,but it allways did take me just a little longer to get the hang of some things.but i am persistant .thanks again for the videos
I tell you what would be awesome. If someone could film this with a dead on horizontal shot at super high speed then show the flaking at different angles to show what is happening with the knapp/percussion. It would look awesome and maybe demonstrate what's happening when the tap occurs.
Crushing the edge is when the tool makes sort of a "crackling" sound when trying to remove flakes instead of a snapping sound. Crushing creates only very small flakes and fragments and leaves the edge looking crushed and powdery instead of smooth, clean, and sharp.
Because flaking across the concave side in the beginning means that you will have to try to run long flakes in a concave surface, which doesn't make sense and doesn't yield good results. I get better results when I run flakes on the concave side during the last stage if thinning the point.
Watch some of my other vids... it's not pressure flaker. I made it out of a 3/4" diameter UHMW plastic rod, drilled a hole in the end, and inserted a piece of copper wire. Pretty easy. You can buy the rods at Harbor Freight or ebay and the wire is available at Home Depot.
glad I didn't have good and big enough pieces yet im afraid I would have wasted some good stone,but now if I come across some good stone im sure it wont be wasted ,thank you so much for youre videos,it is truly satisfying to be able too know I could make a small arrow head,givin the chance.you are a cool dude hobbit.
I showed a kid one summer how to do this with just a pebble and a beer bottle bottom using an antler tip for pressuring. I shared mine during the lesson telling him that he could buy his own from a Petco or Bass Pro for five bucks. :)
Sure. If you have the equipment and the know-how to melt glass the go for it. Large bubbles and interior stress cracks will mess up your knapping, of course, but those are the only things that may be a problem.
well I finally got it lmao,i finally slowed down enough to see what I was doing wrong ,why I couldn't get the small pieces of flint to spall and flake,yep I was watching you but I wasn't puttinto practice what you were saying.i still don't really have any flint or chert worthy of making an arrowhead but I can make it spall and flake im so happy I cant stand it .
Yes, you can use wood but the plastic is a lot like antler and has a bit of "bounce" to it and it works better than wood. The bounce helps to transfer energy into the material, I think.
I bought 18 slabs of obsidian, thinking that it would be good to start learning on, it probably is but I still can't seem to figure out how to start a piece. My slabs range from 1/4 to 3/8 thick and 5 to 7 inches long. I would love to see a video about this please.
Excellent video. Have you ever worked with glass insulators? I know that Ishi used them back in the day, I've recently acquired some from an old antique store, but I'm not exactly sure how to go about knapping it. Any thoughts?
About cleaning up all that glass? I lay a 12x12 sheet of plastic down on my car put or if I'm working on tile floors, I sweep it all up then I mop the floor 5 times using mop & glow to bring back the shineyness. But, it takes several coats of mop & glow or insta-shine.
Little helpers... heheh. Actually, I'm holding the percussion tool behind my knee. I show this more clearly in one of my videos about "How I make a Video".
Beautiful! this would make an excellent necklace! I want to know, are they usable for hunting purposes? How well do they penetrate hide? From my point of view they look pretty effective.
No, no :D I meant that it's nothing new that I've enjoyed it ^^ It's awesome as always :) I've collected some bottles to make arrowheads, but don't have such a nice blue glass. Only green, brown and white. Maybe I'll find somewhere if I really try :P
Is that a copper or brass tip on that tool ? It also looks like it is loose, is it supposed to be loose ? And the handle is long, do you hold it between your legs, then whack it lightly ?
"A stack, a step, a hinge, its all the same to me" Well, it's not the same to me! I thought this was instructional? If you are gonna teach, then teach! Loved the video til that point. I learned a lot! Just wish you would have elaborated a bit more. Anyhow, I still enjoyed it, and keep it up! Thank you!
A step is a broken-off flake before it terminates . A hinge has a scooped out termination. A stack is more than one step or hinge in a series (or on top of each other) that creates a raised spot or island. Whichever is the case, the solution is to remove flakes big enough to clean off the mess.
Hey mate Ive herd of an ishi stick but it doesn't seem to be like the tool you have Could you please tell me the name of the tool with the rounded point that you put against the rock then hit with the other thing Thanks
Nice. Very nice :) I really enjoyed this video (but it's nothing new) and I love that glass color. Need to search somewhere for nice bottles to knap. I hope that this glass shard was not pain in the a*s :P Best regards, Greg
Also, you can leave the original surface showing on the concave side and not even worry about flaking it. The concave surface is already in the shape of a flute and will aid in hafting... so why mess with it if you don't have to? :-)
There are some knappable stones in NY, one of them being onondaga chert. There's also esopus chert, and normanskill chert. You may want to google "New York Lithics and Cherts". It's a business that sells chert to flintknappers.
I can utilize glass bottle bottoms but can never fully remove the curve , my points always end up being bent .. Any chance of a small series on curved flakes and bottle glass ? Being bad at spalling I often end up with thick and fairly curved chunks or twisted ,curved thin flakes .. There must be a point in them but I struggle with the curves
All the glass ones go to my kids. They especially like the blue ones but I've made all sorts. I need to put up a video with a green arrowhead next, I think.
17:39 is where you changed your approach to the same way I pressure flake mine the whole way. When you hold it in the palm of your hand to flake - I find I can't get the knack of doing it like that. Is this frowned on then to do it in the manner which you changed to after 17:39 ? Does it really matter that much ? I find that I can hold the point at such an angle and put pressure on it to make the flakes travel better and not create such a steep bevel edge.
+Daniel Patrick There is nothing wrong with using pressure the way you do. In fact, that's how most people remove flakes from glass. I'm the exception. :-)
