So cool that you are using only organic tools to make your Bifaces & points. Stay with that approach & you will learn all the secrets that copper boppers will never learn. An insight into the temperaments of several different organic materials. They eventually will give up their shuttle differences in bone, stone, antler, wood ivory, horn etc. Great job ! Keep on explaining what you find. You will be the man with the wisdom. If stuck out in the wilderness you will have tools. Carry on!
Flintknapping for Beginners is an amazingly helpful video! We definitely don’t get “bored” Ryan. I’m trying to watch exactly how you get your points. From how your creating platforms and the way you study the rock and get around obstacles. Your a great teacher! I truly love seeing you work through a piece I always learn something new from watching your videos. Even if it’s something your doing and not talking about it particularly. There are several things I’ve seen you do to make progress in a point while talking about something else or telling us about one of your memories. Your videos are “long”because they are detailed and we can see the progression of a point from start to finish. Your videos honestly fly by for me your 1hr video feels like they are over in half of that time. I’m truly appreciative of what you do Ryan and how you do it!! Thanks!
Flintknapping for beginners helped me move from whack and pray to achieving my goal of making a good stone blade. It's a learning process one day I will be able to make a good hunting point
Can we just take a moment to thank thos man for all the courses he gives out for FREE on this beutiful platform that whould cost us hundereds of dollars if we whent to a place to learn
That beginners video helped like no other. A good friend gave me a bunch of rock to knap and ive been able to make a few decent points thanks to your videos. Not only that your videos in general have been real inspiring for me to start doing more primitive stuff. Cheers
The series of videos beginning with the Flint Knapping for Beginners has really been a great information source. The Advanced videos which follow the first one are just as valuable, and I am saying this from the perspective of a raw beginner in this interesting craft. Anyone who has never knapped should include this into their program. Appreciate what you do!
Take your time man. I'm new to your channel. While I drive for a living, I find the long videos entertaining while relaxing. Should be noted I'm more listening to what your doing whole spot watching
Ryan it helped me a lot flint knaping for beginners I’m going to purchase an advanced tool kit so that I can make the things I need I’m not so young however I can start my journey with the modern look at a return to primitive crafting my own tools I’m excited about it
Did my first arrowhead out of obsidian with your video help. Seriously the best teacher I've seen on here. Your video angles and descriptions of what you do and why really make the difference. Still need to work on thinning a bit but really enjoy the process more than anything
I'm getting back into flint knapping, dabbled in it years ago, your video for beginners was absolutely great.... Just ordered some tools from you, I have primative tool and I'm not to bad with them if I don't say so myself 🤣 looking forward to trying your tools. Thanks. Nick.
I really like watching you use the copper tools. Who’s to say that the primitive craftsman wasn’t using copper a lot sooner than history implies. History is always developing as new discoveries are un covered,look at the pyramids
Awesome work! I love them purple tabs! I prefer it raw tho. Its less crunchy. Funny thing about that purple color is it turns brown after a few days or so. Im making the same point now and ran across your video. Thanks for posting.
Nice point man. You should try some tallahatta sometime. Next to obsidian, it is the sharpest stone i have work. It has microserations where flakes fracture off and all it has to do is barely touch you to cut you. I killed a hog with a tallahatta point and there was so much blood that it even scared me lol !!
@@huntprimitive9918 It was something I'd wondered about for quite a while after seeing you use it because it seemed a little elaborate in concept to me. I remember you talking about when you learned it from another knapper and maybe you answered it in that video, but I didn't recall it.
Doesnt this guy know he can just get the rock really hot then drip water on it? I joke i went into a rock shop the other day and a nice lady gave me her knapping kit and 20 lbs of obsidian and chert getting the hang of it made some nice points today. Thanks for all the videos the beginner series is great!
I lived in Dothan AL for 27 years so I recognize the area you are hunting in I also hunted and fished Florida a lot. Where do you live I now live in West Virgina I am 80 now and very feeble I really enjoy your videos, Thanks
I was bad about trying to force a flake but after quite a few nothings and mishaps, it’s actually me not doing something right. That’s me now. If it doesn’t want to go I study it a bit more. “Then I CIRCLE BACK AROUND TO IT!!! 😁
hey buddy what book is that ? and awesome point I am 30 min from Comanche TX awesome also me and my buddy got our knives awesome man such a pleasure to have these to show.
I have been trying to research on this flint I have all over and couldn't find anything (I honestly didn't know where to look). Now I know it's pedernales (thought it was spelled perdenales lol). Only difference is mine is round and seems to be hard as a diamond!
I like that. I'm still trying to learn . But I'm a bone head I guess. But I can make little ones out of nature stone I pop off. U know one side is already sharp. Operntonst yes . It works not good. Nice point and blessings
As someone who is staying up way later than I should be, I most certainly did not read "Advanced Knapping Lesson" and instead read "Advanced Kidnapping Lesson." Suffice it to say I was thoroughly confused for a solid 3 seconds.
Makes a better point than I can make with all copper. Then says I'm going to cheat and use this little steel microflaker haha you did not cheat great point man awesome work as always love your content
Great work Ryan. This is actually pretty hard and you make it look easy. I’d like to subtitle your videos in Spanish speaking viewers. Would that be okay?
I see that you are using the 12th edition of the Arrowheads book. I have read reviews about the current 15th edition saying it sucks with bad quality photos. What should I buy? Thanks.
You start with such a large rock. Does it take that big of rock to make a small point. I start with a lot smaller pieces and end up with the same sized points.
So I'm a beginner I collected my first pieces of Flint to try to work this past week so please bear with my greenness I have a question when u are working a piece the size that you begin with in this video I noticed you kept a few flakes and threw them in front of you where is the other ones are just getting dumped to the side is it possible that some of the flakes that you're making are usable for making points I recently took my first couple of shots with the Hammerstone and got a piece that's really good looking on top but the bottom is flat is that something that can be worked around or is that a trash flake any info would sure be appreciated
I saw a guy who was Knapping and he had a leather pouch on the front of his chair for tools when they slid off his lap, and there was a set of saddle bags that also draped over his chair tha was loaded with various tools
Do you heat treat all the stone you use? Here in the UK flint is all I've really heard of being used and I've never heard of anyone here heat treating it either. What could I expect from heat treated flint?
Most of the stone I heat treat. It makes it break cleaner and sharper. It basically just makes good stone even better. Here in America, people have been heat treating it for roughly 8-9 thousand years. I am not sure about the history of heat treating in the UK though.
Hey I live in north Carolina and almost all the points I find are quartz and I order all my knapping material from you maybe you could try to make a quartz point on your next video
Books are Pretty tough to learn knapping from. My video flintknapping for beginners is a great place to start. watching the mechanics typically helps a lot more that reading about them in most cases
All that knapping oil makes ya bleed like a stuk hog. Lol ... but the oil is definitely a necessity no one runs good with rusty gears ...jk on a more serious note keep coming with the amazing content you have definitely helped sharpen my skills as I habitually watch your videos.🙏
I'm curious: did you do this video a little bit tipsy? :D you seemed a little bit more outgoing than usual.. maybe i'm tripping :D it did not affect your performance even if you were, nice video as always :D
Ryan I’m willing to bet that the women that did most of the tool making had really nice tool pouches that the used while working ,think about it if they had to get up and run and grab a child the wouldn’t have to leave there tools laying around they put what ever they were using in the pouch that was around their waist and go
