Another great video! I have been wondering about manyof the points you covered in this video! Thanks for sharing and explaining why you do things in the order you did! VERY Helpful to learn!
There's a certain groups of martial arts schools that send you in a forest after teaching this art and you have to survive, make weapons, shoes & everything else.
Thanks Rob! Yep, the glass dust will get yah... I just read a bit about lens grinders (when it was still done by hand) back in the day and how some died from lung disease from the glass dust.
Nifty. If you can claim, arrow heads and so on, made from volcanic glass you should reasonably be able to claim the same for beer bottle glass --- as far as technique is involved. Indeed I've heard that now and then there have been found batches of volcanic glass that apparently had been passed through a trading network of some sort many hundreds or thousands of years back.
trying this out on a couple brown beer bottle bottoms. still figuring out how to make my snapping tools but have found some pretty awesome success with a leathermen
That thing turned out nice. The Indian museum here in Sacramento has a few of Ishi's points on display. Some were made of brown glass and others were made of clear. The clear ones were about 2 1/4 inches long by 3/4 in wide and had a very long narrow tip. He made those like the Wintun Indians did here in Ca. He would use a side of the glass bottle as a knife and the neck of the bottle as a handle. I will have to do a quick vid of it when no one is looking. Very interesting.
I think the clear glass ones were made from pain glass as these mostly had very fine flaking on the sides and the top was mostly smooth from the manufacturer. These were attached to arrow shafts.
When dressing the edge, you can avoid crushing by using a very sharp pressure flaker. Or you can just push straight down, perpendicular to the edge, and try to take off only tiny flakes.
The only thing I can tell you is that if you are getting steps on the face, then you're biting off more than you can chew, so to speak. Try making the platforms stronger and the flakes shorter. Once you are getting flakes that don't end in steps, then you can try more force and a more aggressive angle to get longer flakes.
Good video.. It's nice that you volunteer such good information.. I guess maybe I missed the boat though.. You made mention of a side view so we could see your angle of percussion when using indirect.. Well I wasn't able to see the side view recording and that is a real important missing puzzle piece in my technique. Do you have any side view videos..? Thanks in advance and thank you for taking time out of your day to help us.. It is much appreciated..!!
I have been following your channel for a couple weeks now. I wasn't having good success with pressure flaking, my flakes were short and I started using your method and it was super hard at first, but I have gotten more used to it. Now I hardly get steps, I guess because I am overly cautious lol. I have one problem tho. When I go to dress the edge, I have the edges so thin that they crush, even after I abrade them. Any advice? PS I am knapping glass.
The baton is a rod of UHMW plastic. I thought it was 1-1/4" diameter but it's probably more like 2 inches in diameter. I can't remember... I bought it a long while ago. I'll measure it. It's the same stuff that the flaker is made from. It's NOT delrin.
