848 - Flintknapping Glass with Abo Tools by Request 1/3 

Thanks for using abo tools😜

surprise, you are back. i saw that thumbnail and there you go, making another copy of that one point. good stuff.

I've always liked you gun handled pressure flakers. Think I'll go make some of those.

I also find with the abo knapping a deer antler billet makes a great replacement for the percussion stone and seems to not hinge the glass as easily.

Old bottle dumps are an excelant source of bottle bottoms. And if lucky a person can sometimes find some amazing coloured glass.

If you "Knap" under water, you would drown. lol Watching you make arrowheads is so interesting and relaxing to me. You are amazing...

At 16:00, I was thinking about why you wait so long before driving flakes across the surface... and then you answered my question. 🤣 I think I am trying to thin not because I don’t want to see any of the industrial surface but because I am afraid I might lose a lot of width when I finally start thinning. (I have made more drills than I have a use for. ;) )

Very nice made four today 3 survived.

How do you stop shards going in your shoes ? And i really believe indirect percussion is the best method , i even came across a strange old video of native people using indirect percussion but with a tiny handheld punch held in the same hand as the workpiece against the platform then struck with the billet in the opposite hand ! It was incredible ! Saw a vid years ago saying ishi used just a nail and a pad , no abrasion evidence and had a systematic method of pressure flaking glass , and the guy replicated his work pretty well using this weird method , cant remember the channel edit , i found the ishi vid on youtube " how ishi knapped a slab " flintknapper jimmy" shows a very efficient method of pressure flaking glass using just a steel nail flaker , no abrasion at all and a leather pad

Awesome video, I'm just starting out with copper and iron, but would love to get good enough to use Abo tools. I've heard Garfish scales make for good notching tools, you can buy them on Fleabay for a few dollars 👍

Ha! You said you had glass in your skin, 7: 15 or so. I said out loud: It goes with the territory. Immediately you said: Ya. Thanks for all the instructions too.

Weird that people want to see you make an Ishi-style point without using indirect percussion (AKA, the Ishi stick!) lol

Is that a wooden dowel that you tapered to fit tour hand?

I use thicker flakes from my material be it rock or glass to put my notches in, haven't messed up my notching since. Don't know how many others do the same thing as I did it out of frustration a while ago.

I cant work clear glass. Cant see my platforms in it well and always end up breaking it

I can't knap glass to save my life. Not sure why.

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I love your content but lotta ads though, probly not your fault just youtube being youtube. But its like every 4 minutes.

Olive Oil Jars are Better, it's Green Glass. Who the fuck is Ishi?