How to Sharpen Scary Sharp Stone Hunting Points 

Everytime i rewatch your videos you drive a point through my thick head, you are an amazing teacher. Thank You

Your teaching gift is top-notch! Sharpening wits as you sharpen points. Keep them coming!

10/10 Ryan this video is a masterpiece. I'll be hunting with one of these for elk starting tomorrow.

Thanks for the perfect in-depth precise explanation and demonstration!!!

I just saw some super small obsidian heads in a museum in Ash fork Arizona. They have a awesome collection of points pottery ect.

This is exactly what I have been needing. Thank you for sharing! You are helping rebuild primitive hunting culture!

Ryan great video as per always. I ordered my starter kit from you and watched the basic knapping videos at the beginning of summer and now I'm making my own tools, amazing knives, arrowheads and spearpoints. Next step is building my self bow. I cant wait to start tillering my stave once it's dry enough. THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing your knowledge. Your hard work is greatly appreciated and the knowledge you share with people on here and in FB groups is invaluable.

Man.......................your vids are top notch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is incredibly generous. Hard won knowledge you are giving away. Well articulated and very clear. Thank you!

I wish you sold to Australia, checked your stuff and love it. Please consider it.

Ryan everything you say makes so much sense, I’m telling you I can and many other people are getting this !!! Primitive skills are not going to pass away anytime soon your videos are inspiring lots of people you are a fire starter

I love the flint knapping videos they're what got me into flint knapping and I'm getting my first tools after a few months of getting into flint knapping, the only problem i have is finding those massive cobbles of flint.

Another amazing video, learned a lot from all you guys and appreciate all you do for the rest of us. God bless and stay healthy.

This is possibly my 15th view on this video. Extremely helpful and thorough to the point.

Really enjoy these videos! The intro was sweet!

Good to see you...

What a comprehensive practical detailed insight into the finer points, excuse the pun, the geometry and point detail, the chainsaw hook, made sense to me, with the click back as I've absent mindedly created this effect but couldn't replicate it. The notching e method.. that's a game changer if you manage to thin your points well.. absolutely superb video and always learn much.. thankyou Ryan!

Great video!

Ryan, great video, I am stuck, I have had sucess with heat treated rock. breaking flakes, finding n developing a platform. The in between part is my stuck point. I bought points from amazon to practice notching n sharpness while I level up n get the grinding done into blank. Every time I watch knapping for begginners I pick an important piece up. like center, points from amazon have a flat side and the at the base a big hump. There’s a lot of flaking and grinding to try n get both sides beveled in the middle. I think they went to far without thinning. I was able to make a nice point with knotches but i know it’s not sharp, my flakes are sharper, In this video i learned, how to make the serated part sharp with the pressure forward n flick back n checking the piece removed. I don’t want to cheat with these smaller points that have a huge ass n use a grinder. However I am getting frustrated attempting to thin. Broke a few tips, then i heard in this video about snapping them, I think I will listen again about the breaking part. Wish we had descent rock chert or obsidian(no too sharp for me) flint, which we call lightning rocks. They light up in sweat. Even then i have to travel an hour n half to find flint. I will watch the part where you take a flake n shape it into a point again. I am missing something i think, as my instinct leaves me with broken pieces, However I will not give up. What one man can do, so can another, lol at line from movie anthony hopkins. Peace be with you and thank you for entertaining inspiring n teaching us what u have spent a lifetime learning. maybe just me but i’ll check your videos, a video taking a flake n shaping into a point or spear head before sharpening process. That’s the section I am struggling. If there is not one A five minute video prolly help me out lot. I don’t know how expensive it is to ship to canada some georgetown flint or whatever you would recommend for begginners, forgiving. Thanks Ryan, I plan on saving some money to order a few points to hunt n maybe some other stuff.

loved the opening

Ryan should make a primitive blowgun video

Hi Ryan! Great sequel to the one you made years ago. (or should I say remaster) I have a video idea for you if you're interested: maybe you can shoot an arrow at ballistic gel / piece of meat / carcass after one, two and X iteration of sharpening. Maybe that would illustrate better that which you already know from experience. Also wanna ask: what about transverse arrowheads? they literally have no tip geometry, they have no tip at all :D thank you man, for being my favorite content creator!

When it comes to primitive hunting skills of just a regular guy, I'll bet you are the one to impress the HADZA PEOPLE.

Always so much knowledge 😁 I still need to make my first point 🙃🙃 think I need to make a thinner pressure flaker🤔

Would you ever entertain the idea of slow motion camera to capture the tip penetration and subsequent slicing in a simulated hide?

Awesome, was hoping to find such a video like this yesterday. I just got a few points made I plan on taking some does and pigs with

Here is a question…. Could you use a leather man hole punch that looks like small screwdriver?

We can only speculate how the bow came into being as a weapon around 70000 years ago. But it's adoption around the world in mere decades is testimony to it's usefulness and the major advantages it brought with it. A major development for it's creation is the string and while string was made before the quality necessary for a useful hunting bow is much higher than basic stuff. The discovery would not imply more than a child playing with a bit of string and a good dry branch (or a short atlatl arrow shaft) and mistakenly shooting dad's atlatl arrow about as far as dad ever could.

You might consider showing the stretched rubber band box test to show how sharp your heads are. I know they're sharp, just saying it's a graphic test that will show the doubters. Again, I'm saying I know yours are scary sharp. I've done the same thing just to illustrate a properly sharpened steel broadhead vs a not there yet sharpening job.

hey can you do a video on primtive fishing hooks and snake hunting

I was wondering why copper instead of iron/steel... thanks for the answer! I'm from the Patagonia, and there is a lot of silex here. What point can I make with silex? Specially to hunt wild boar, hare and guanaco.

How long do your bows last

Isn’t the arrow spinning in flight? If so how long does it continue to turn after it enters Ryan? While listening to yo describe how crazy sharp and the damage it does it leaves me to how much is it turning when it penetrates inertia will tend to keep it turning after it enters if if so it will trouble if not triple the damage of even a bullet like a drill it with almost thirty edges, does that make sense

Quantas libras deve ter um arco de caça?

I love the internet, as a child I knew I was Ndn but adopted by white people so when no one was looking i’d try n make a point but break it n give up. We did not have internet. Internet can almost replace school once a child’s assign is found. Me i’m back to working with wood something that i was very adapt to as a child. Tree hank you for the free information which must be tough giving it away, when a man fasts for 6or seven days n receives a medicine, They do not tell the world or charge, because they died to receive that gift(fasting not eating or drinking the essence of life taken away). It is something that must be asked for in a proper manner and intentions. It is upsetting when i see native people sellling medicine. My medicine is bowyery, keeps me from from hanging out with the wrong crowd. My son grade 6 is sitting with me knapping too. All thanks to this channel!!! I dream of putting together an indigenous team n train them for the INDIGENOUS OLYMPICS Here IN CANADA, on this island we have reserves close together.

Did you get that Buffalo you killed with atlatl mounted? Or tan the hide? I know it would have been super expensive but I’m still amazed by that.

Great video as usual Ryan. I hesitate to sharpen my points before hafting them since I’m afraid of ruining all my hard work when test firing them. Can’t think of a target soft enough not to damage my serrations. How do you deal with this problem? Is it no big deal or do you only haft them or sharpen them right before the hunt?

What do you charge for a 3 pack?

Do you sell any of the arrowhead collages like the one in the video that’s behind you? I would like one that displays every type of arrowhead you make.

Do you have copies of your books in stock on your website?

Scratching your fingernail across a piece of flint will also produce a rather unpleasant noise especially on a piece that’s a little rough and not very waxy. My girlfriend hates it haha.

I've never seen the comment section of these kind of videos. Do you guys ever see angry vegans?

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For some one to say the Indians didn’t have copper just shows a level of ignorance, stones were traded clear across the North American continent, naturally occurring copper exists on the earths surface.

Customers?

I wouldn’t test a point right there like there. There are nerves and tendons that could end your flint knapping forever. Among other things if you lose the use of your thumb