Thanks. Culture is a complex subject. I didn't even talk about memes. Not all technology that begins in one culture stays in that culture, for example.
You are a pretty cool Guy , and it would be my pleasure to meet you someday .... Have a great 2019 , looking forward to future videos .. Happy Knapping !! :)
i have been meaning to ask you about a quest i have. my wife mentioned she has not seen the Mississippi River. i want some chert to try and knapp. can you give me some directions or city names to look around at? i see you mentioned Randy. i plan to send an email after writing you. the trip would be in a couple of weeks or so, maybe a couple of nights. it will be on our anniversary and we are in SC. remember i had the covid? i am still under the weather. anything is a burden. i am hoping to be able to go and walk around picking up rock or even find a place to buy some. is it possible to walk around the River and find rock? i would love to come find some in Texas too, ahhhh someday.
I don't know where to look on the the Mississippi river. I always tell people to check out the landscape supply yards that sell landscape stone. They sometimes have knappable rock and it only costs maybe $15 for an 80lb bucket full.
I found some interesting oil chert on Dauphin Island (off the Alabama coast, near Mobile) being used as rip rap. Big boulders of it. It was black and flaked easily, and smelled like oil after it was flaked. Not basalt, but similar. Obviously, came from somewhere else, hauled in.
Black "Fort Payne" chert (from Tennessee) smells like oil when you knap it. I think there are a few other dark cherts smell the same way. It's good stuff.
Most knappers use a turkey toaster oven for best treating rock, but you can use a regular oven. I've got a video on heat treating if you go back into my videos...
Yes. Many stones change color or are not easily knapped until after they are heated. Many artifacts fall into this category when we compare the raw known material to the material of the finished points.
@@KnapperJackCrafty Much appreciated the reply. Since revealing my ignorance I got online and researched it. Being Cherokee/Choctaw with some scotch-irish I missed a lot of education at the hands of my elders who did not like to talk about native things.
@@KnapperJackCrafty I have been studying all utube knappers for few months, started making my tools and have some abo tools already now just looking for some stone but have some obsidian pieces. Doing all crafts of my people groups, now on selfbows. Really appreciate your channel.
thanks jack i live in most eastern part of iowa south of cedar rapids and i love flint knapping cuz its like a window to what my Cherokee ansesters dd. im just wondering where i can find chert i found a good 15 lbs once and i need more to make a knife blade and ax head and a few arrowheads for deer season. thanks your videos are always fascinating to me keep up the good work
I don't give out locations of chert or flint because it only takes one guy to remove 2000 pounds of flint from a location in a few days. My advice would be to go to a knap-in and get some flint from other knappers. I know there are many knappers in Iowa.
Haha... RU-vid and my email are the two places I respond quickly. Everywhere else, it takes me forever. So yeah, I'm guilty of that. Which reminds me, I need to check FB... or not.
Probably, but I don't think it's a pretty thing to watch (hahah). I'm going to receive a raw batch soon. I'll try to remember to make a video on the raw stuff.
Yes, it's a good one but it's 1/2 of the definition. It ignors things that are learned but not shared and things that are shared but are not able to be absorbed, both of which are motivations to create, mantain, and/ or change culture.
Flint is a special kind of stone that forms in beds of natural chalk. Chert forms in beds of limestone. That's the difference. Flint also knaps better than chert in most cases. This Mississippi gravel is a type of low-quality chert.
