Fascinating! I grew up in the Texas Hill County. Finding arrowheads was always a nice surprise when exploring pastures as a kid. Thanks for sharing. I am pretty much addicted to any video you produce now. RU-vid does not appreciate the treasures you produce.
nice work!another good source of glass is from old TV tubes, the screen part, its thick and often a purplish color... And a very good knapping tool is the common railroad spike its very durable, the right size, and the head makes a good hammer. and the narrow side of the point angle is excellent for notches and general flaking... you can also strike with the edge of the head. and they can be resharpened. G
You do a really good job on that glass , thanks for the video, I'm partial to the noxema bottles ,old Mason jar glass , rail light glass and cobalt blue beer bottles, they all work great
I'd love to learn how to do this. I've always wanted to make a yew or some other native wood hunting bow. (straight, un-knotted yew is hard to find) Even if bow hunting is illegal in the UK. There is was an ancient stone age, fling axe & arrow head factory (Langdale Pike) not too far from where I live in Cumbria. I've often meant to go there & collect some flint & have a go at this. Thanx for uploading.
Awesome! I live in New Mexico and I have many specimens of obsidian that I would like to work with! I will practice using this method with glass! Thanks for the awesome video.
very good though flip broken peace glasses into grasses. should save it in trash can or potto chip can with lid. you never know you may find way melt down make more arrow heads. or recycle small bits
My grandma has gotten them. How? Idk but she always tells me about the ones she gets and shows me how to remove them. We have an unhealthy relationship.
Hey Shawn! Thank you for taking the time to make these very informative and helpful videos, they were the catalyst for me learning primitive skills. Question about this video: it seems like glass breaks down into smaller(and consequently super sharp) little pieces, it seems like there are inherent dangers in getting pieces cut in your fingers and just generally catching ricochets all over your clothes!
i dont think you'll find copper boppers in a junkyard or laying around anywhere else for that matter. Yoppy is inquiring about practical/little-to-no cost materials that would most closely substitute for that antler, following this series junkyard/free/cheap material theme.
What about Stanley Phillips head screwdrivers. The older ones have a ball at the end that should work well and the nose can be used for pressure flaking. Just an idea.
Very pretty mason jar. Blue , u have a different technique tan some of the others u us the anter alot for flacking chips makes it look not so hard like the horse shoe nail, its veryy nice ,if i found a whole vintage manson jar i would definitely keep it ,but broken bottom makes awsome arrow heads ,a new. Hobby to try on thhhe founnd vintage glass bule is beautiful 🏜
Just found your channel and I have to say I am in love, got a bit of catching up to do! All your videos are really well put together from filming to editing and are really easy to follow. I guess what I'm trying to say is thanks so much for sharing your knowledge! Right off to watch the ice man pack video! Trail
I have tried this. . . It's really hard, in fact I still have all the tools I made. I tried using old television screens. Any tips, hints and tricks you share are super welcome👍
William West i saw microscopic pictures of a standard surgical scalpel cut on human skin compared to the obsidian. its just remarkable the difference. i had hand surgery on my fingers. and the incision scars are hideous, thick, and though it was microscope surgery the guy couldn't realign my prints perfectly after suture. a year later they are still looking awful. the reports i read of the obsidian blades say the healing and scaring is so minimal that you rarely even need ointments and secondary procedures to aid in the removal of scaring
Bo Huggabee obsidian can be a great blade material because it keeps it strength while being very thin so it won't cut in between cells but can cut through leather easily
This may be a big project, but it would be interesting to see an attempted recreation of an Aztec Macuahuitl, or the large, flat, rectangular clubs lined with small obsidian blades on the edges used by Aztec warriors. I believe you have necessary flintknapping skills to make it happen.
Hoch Funf Pretty much any choncoidally fracturing material can be used. This means glass, flint, chert, porcelain, and many other things. The antler is used because it has a little "grip" on the flake, and thus drives it farther than a harder material would.
Good video. I actually want to start flint knapping, I thought of making an entire arrow. I don't have access to sinew , is there any other material I can use? (I don't hunt, nor I have access to any animal tissue except the stuff I can buy in the supermarket)
Love Shawn Woods videos. Cool guy doing cool stuff. Done being vegetarian. Want to learn to hunt but maybe it's too late for me. Anyway keep up the great work!
shawn i just saw a netflix doc called "great human odyssey" and they showed a knapped arrowhead, what was unusual was it had longitudinal flutes on the back where it would be "slide fitted" into a corsponding shaped wood arrow. never seen that its was like 1 hour 20 mins or so the doc. I do not understand how you could get a flute 2/3 of the way down the spine of the arrow head i get knapping but how would they have fluted without modern tools? anyways great work, keep it up!
Can you comment on the performance of your own knapped glass and porcelain heads vs your Obsidian heads of similar size? Does one material out perform another by a noticeable margin when shot into similar media? I can't imagine why there would be any difference in glass bottle and obsidian, but the porcelain may have subtle differences.
