Your way of explanation is amazing! So simple and easy, down to earth and quick too! I have recently taken up the skill of knapping also. I have successfully knapped 1 arrow head and 2 bird points using the bottom of glass bottles. Have not tried stone, obsidian, chert, or flint yet. Looking forward to do so!
I'm from Louisiana, New Orleans. .. but now I'm in Green Co. Missouri and trying to find rocks for knapping. I'm used to living in the swamps living with nature and do primitive living. I like all these videos
Hi. I just wanted to say thanks for a previous vid on basic cordage weaving. (yes, I am a slacker for making accounts) I watched several vids on the topic, but yours made it click. Several blisters later, and I can make rope, that is strong enough for a bow-drill, from the long grass in eastern Colorado. Thank you.
I highly enjoyed this education. I think im going to give it a try soon. I always thought it looked hard but some how you made it look simple. thanks for sharing
I have to say, even though every other video I have watched and subbed to, this one has clicked the easiest with me. Felt alot like you were teaching hands on. Thanks for the vid and I subbed!
Joshua, That's some good stuff I been flint knapping for 25 yrs. Myself I dropped out for awhile but I get into making some nice stuff. I consider myself an outdoorsman. Later I'll send you one of my fancy mushroom walking sticks. these are really good looking sticks! I make mine from Hickory saplings I dig up the whole tree carve the roots into shrooms heads. But anyway I like your vids.. keep up the great work.
In a survival situation, you can make safety glasses from tree bark. Basically they are like the Alaskan snow glasses, but for protecting the eyes. You can make shoes out of tree bark as well, but I have no idea if you could make mitts for the hands out of tree bark.
I'm learning a lot from your videos. I plan on learning as many primitive outdoor survival skills. All these guys getting into the bug out bags. The SHTF bags! But most of those those people are counting on being able to get to their bags. I wonder how many of those guys even know how to use their gear. What if they didn't have all that gear. I don't want to be dependent on gear. I want to know how to adapt with primitive life skills. Thanks for the cool videos and sharing your knowledge!
What I find the most amazing about this, is that you only need time and rocks. If you make a bad flake, fuck it, pick up another rock lol. You'll never run out of materials, like EVER. And getting new materials is as easy as pick them off the ground.
love the really primitive stuff, it's knowledge like that should never have been neglected. They literally teach lies in schools instead of something truly life-useful like this. Great vid like always Josh, thanks for sharing man, good stuff
definitely, this is called heat treating. most chert can be heat treated to a very high temperature anywhere from 500, to 3,000 degrees. this makes it knap better because it allows the molecules bind together and makes it more glass-like.
I'm a beginner that wants to go out and practice. What sorts of places do you go to do your videos? And will you/have you made a video talking about your 2 year stay?
hey man, are you the same guy who's story i read on the sigma3 survival website? found God up there and came down for a Bible? I really enjoyed that story man. shared it with several of my friends.
I finished it years ago but there is some tech problem on sigma 3...ill have to get robert to work on it. That is an edited version of my original writing that can be read on my facebook typos and all. You can add me on FB my name is Joshua G. Hamlin on there. the story is in my notes
you can read "alone in the wilderness parts 1-3" on their website. go to about us at the top. then click on the staff page. the josh hamlin. the links to all three parts of his story are there on his page.
who the hell steals flint knapping tools? also, the flake at 7:00 would have made a amazing spearpoint with some work unless it has some fractures in it.
