From Flake to Projectile - Flintknapping 101 

Donny this was AWESOME thank you! You're a gifted teacher.

I like to remove the shine as well, but in a different manner, I remove it one small glass at a time 😅, great tutorial.

Cool

Thanks for showing the process! Ever since Shawn Woods stopped flintknapping and turned to mouse traps, there has been a void on youtube waiting to be filled. And it seems like you are just doing that! Awesome videos! Easy to understand, no fancy editing, no music, no rushed and fast cuts. Thank you very much again!

I am the beginner and struggling with a pressure flaking but this is the best explanation yet, what I saw... Thank you Donny. Greetings from Norway. 🤙

New subscriber here. How did you turn into a modern day flintknapper ? Have you ever worked in the field of Paleontology, specifically Paleolithic's ? I ask because as we speak there are many, sometimes virulent "fights" amongst the various Ph.D. Personalities concerning certain lithic artifacts, but none of these Personalities can actually knap stone, or obsidian. One of the biggest "fights" concerns the Solutrean lithic tools from ~20,000 years ago, in Spain and France, and some similar types found along the Atlantic Coast here in the U.S.A. Dr. Stanford from the Smithsonian sees a direct connection, others do not see the connection. I wonder what would be your opinion, not from seeing pictures of the tools, but from actually holding them so you can see and feel the manufacturing process ? Another big "fight" concerns lithic "tools" from the pre-Clovis layer at the Topper Site there on the Savannah River in South Carolina, which Dr. Albert Goodyear has been excavating for at least 20 years now.... I could go on.....Meadowcroft Rockshelter, Hell Gap....and more. I'd like to see you make a Solutrean blade, like one from Europe, and one from the State of Virginia. You would know if the manufacturing process was at least similar, if not exactly the same. In pictures both do look the same, but was the technique the same ? Anyway, your lessons brighten my day.

I have been knapping for six years. I have watched probably every video on this topic. I still watch everything I can find on knapping. This video is the best how to flint Knapp video I have ever seen. I will be sharing this to anyone that ask me how to flint knapp from here on. Excellent job.

Thanks for this video. Huge help with understanding the process better. Really love your videos.

being able to teach someone else how to do something is the highest form of mastery

Man I really need to learn all these skills, hunting, making my own tools, growing vegetables, with the third world war approaching it becomes essential

Thanks donny I just started just what I needed

Donny how do you find/obtain rocks like this? Or what types should I look for?

Such thorough explanation 👊🏼

A great video for someone jst starting out. You explain things well. Thanx

This video is so good. I’ve always grown up searching for arrowheads and resharpening the edges with other rocks. I’ve finally become strong enough to actually make one of my own. Thanks Donny 👍

Please continue to make these longer videos. Incredibly informative and very important knowledge.

Great instructional video. I have thought about starting to knap arrow heads, but in my local area here in Finland there are not much good stone. Quartz might be viable, and to my understanding quartz arrow heads are found here. Very cool looking hobby, and i have moose antler i can maybe turn in to tools for this

I can't tell if this man is 25 or 65. Hope I age that well. Must be something in the rocks.

Awesome video, thanks for taking the time to show us

Can you show how to make the arrows? Wood selection & processing it? Or have I missed it in the list

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Just started my flint knapping journey and your videos are some of the best.

I love these videos where you’re talking and walking us through the process. Thanks!

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Safety glasses aren't nearly as cool as an eye patch and a dust mask might not be a bad idea either for the silica.

Great video now I want a peanut butter sandwich 🥪 and the skill too process stone into useful tools

Really appreciate watching your thumbs up video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.

Excellent teaching....Thanks.....I am your newest subscriber

Awesome semper fi donny 🦅🌎⚓️

This is a Huge help. Learned a ton, thank you.

So I want to get into flintknapping but I've no idea how to find and identify the type of stone needed. Do you have a video on identifying what is needed or can you make a detailed video on the subject? In my immediate environment I don't have any stone sources so I will have to go searching.

Just started experimenting with Knapping today. I have yet to be able to figure out how to get those thin flakes consistently. Hopefully this video will be of help.

Thank you so much! This helped me understand and I was able to make my first decent point from a flake of georgetown. You have definitely gained a fan.

That's the best way that I have ever been shown to Knapp stone excellent video great content thank you for sharing five stars brother

Thank you for the valuable information sir. Have a good day :)

Love the video! Thank you for making something that seems so complicated and inaccessible to a step by step Science. Your videos and tik toks are always great to see! Also your editing style is perfect for the educational style videos you're trying to output! I really hope to see your channel grow! Can't wait to see whats in store for the future!

Wow! I've never understood the fundamentals of knapping so well dude. Such a dude as always D! Such a good teacher bro. 🙏🏼💜🤙🏽👊🏼😎

Solid video! Extremely helpful for me as an archaeologist trying to learn knapping

I underestimated how much pressure flaking is used for making a point. Something I've never tried but I want to start this summer. Thanks for these videos!

I've been watching this channel for a long time but just recently subscribed. I feel I'm ready to go back to Stone Age. 🤔

YES donny, thank you so much for faming a lost art- Could you show people how to make eroded style stone tools, like chisels, sandstone axes, and such. in a landscape without basalt, or chert- its hard to understand how tools can be made. if you have the knowledge, please demonstrate it in your demonstrative, and cool manner. PS: a neat thing for you to look into would be Shredded Wheat+ Straight arrow. Straight arrow is a promotional card, like baseball cards. but they teach you stoneworking, flintknapping, whittling, firestarting and all sorts of other neat things.

I’m really happy, so today I watched your video and proceeded to make my first ever arrowhead! I’m very glad I clicked on your channel

anyone ever told you that you look like Rick Grimes from the Walking Dead?

#arrowhead how u make that two little hole on the left and right side.. somewhat u skipped that part..

Tried my first one that I didn't preform on the cabbing machine yesterday with surprising results. I think it is Dacite but it might be a heat treated basalt, not sure.

Wtf did I just see? I’d be dead before I found the right kind of rock.

Gotta say the hardest part for me has been foraging for chert, as there’s essentially none naturally occurring where I live, only whatever could’ve been brought into the area by the aboriginal peoples

Instructions unclear: now I have a crushed peanut butter sandwich

Man, I wish there were chunks of flint like that around here. Always wanted to learn. No flint.

I’ve always wondered what you could do with a handful of the small pieces and a sling.

Hey there. I was wondering what type of material is the best/easiest to start learning to knapp with? Thanks.

You’re the only one I can learn from! Thanks!

I’d like to see more detail on platform preparation required to straitened out a curve and then the actual straightening process. Great video.

If you find an arrowhead, can you tell if it was made 10 years ago or 1000 years ago

Thanks for the video you inspired me to give it a try thanks to watching ur TikToks 🤠

Is there any chance that you do a video on how to make a neolithic bow and arrow. From harvest to finished product?

I teach people to use the heavy bottoms of glass bottles to make points, working from processed glass, to obsidian, chert, quartzite etc, but plain ol' glass, even extra thick sheet glass, makes it easy to se how one's strikes affect the material. It's way sharper, but, I taught my self knapping this way.

What kind of rock are you using for hammering the bread?

What is the name you have for the little peices leftover,

Really enjoyed the video. Helped me a lot. Thanks Terry

Thanks for this content! I got into flintknapping because of your videos, and I have been enjoying teaching and being taught it! Thanks for the video, keep on rockin!

Hey sir would really like to know what you would use to make cutting tools in a Southern state where rocks are not as common.

I've started acquiring all the resources I need to start flint knapping. Thank you for all the tips and know how Donny! I can't wait to get started and learn a rare craft.

What's your favorite thing to make?

What can we use in a survival situation when we dont have antler or copper?

Thank You Donnie !

Now I want to be a cave man

Can you make kapala shard form far cry primal?

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May donny dust have prosperity, happiness, and fulfillment for the rest of his days.

Whoooo it's here!

More importantly: Flint- "napping" !?? Not, "Flintmaping"? What's a "napp"? Just Saying 🦊🚬

Can you do something with amber ?

Phenomenal instructions.

Two minutes in and I was ready to eat that rock lol

Fascinating. Great video mate

Incredible work. 🏆🏆🏆

This is like genuinely the most interesting thing I can find atm

Love your shorts they are like ASMR

excellent...I started knapping 40 years ago when there was hardly anyone into it, and almost no information accessible - and I was laughed at....LOL...now it's like a smorgasbord....love it

Gunpowder and Chinese hand cannon

Will a flake in a hand plane crumble?

You are the Santa of flintknapping

Making flake is like gatcha it seems

thanks for this video ! i love it !

Can you make Karambit?

pefect teaching tank you

For Christmas I wish a PS5

Do u find that stone or buy it?

Please Mr Dust more Content like this and the buffalo cid . Your long content vids are fantastic shorts too and Sir I’d love to buy your tools .

Was the spawl heat treated?

U look like Aquaman

Awesome work Donny.

I enjoy watching your videos but man they are way to relaxing especially when your in the stone room just the sound of pressure flaking is so relaxing I almost fall asleep and end up watching your video multiple times some times

tatoos yay or nay?

Can you make a bola

Mesmerizing

Could you please show us how to make a primitive quiver

Go abo!

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