How to Make Knapping Tools 

Great information, very helpful. Please make more knapping videos!

I cant believe i just found your vids but im glad i did you are a gifted teacher sir and we look forward to binging on your vids and living our knapping dreams vicariously through you. I have to ask and waste your time sir but we are recovering from a total loss uninsured fire and most all materials and tools are a loss. My 14 year old girl has been knapping with me for 5 years now. Is there a classifieds type market on materials and maybe used tools? Every penny is being pinched right now but i dont want my girls interest to be lost due to me. She loves the materials and tools you use ss do i. Where can i find those and how costly are they. Weve got a few hammerstones one crappy flaker and an antique soldering iron bopper but materials and tools are lean now and for a while so any direction you can point me is soooo appreciated sir. Keep doing your thing man we love you

Aa a flacking pad I use a piece of tire thread, works very good for me, it's free and abundant.

A different approach on getting the copper ground solid wire to its work hardened state is grip a run of it about a foot long in a sturdy vice and ckuck the other with a drill motor equipped with a Jacob's chuck and turn the drill at a low speed. As the wire twists it heats up and one end or the other snaps off at roughly the optimal hardness. Then saw it as to the length you need and drive it into handle with predrilled hole undersized . This will last many moons. Have not been back to buy more in several years and I'm past three hundred points made.

Wow! You have a "flint knapping" stamp shirt on. Cool beans 😊🤙

More good instruction. Thank you.

Hey... A grouting floating tool would work well for pressure flacking... And they have different types of them.

How well would bronze brazing rod work in a flaker?

Have you tried modeling glass? If so, have you tried firing it in the microwave kiln. Theoretically it should work...since you can fire small amounts of silver clay in it...right? Isn't it the same principle...fusing the material...be it metal or glass...while burning off the binder? I'm interested in fusing glass, but I'm also interested in modeling glass, but there's not a whole lot of info out there on it...especially the firing/burnout part. Here are the only two videos I've seen on the subject. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IYV02-gT7Dg.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TvXCE9k12q8.html