Jim tried to teach me how to do that but I had no machines at the time. Sure miss the guy! He was a good friend! I recently picked it up again and am slowly recalling some of his instructions. Everything your doing seems very similar to his style of knapping. I have another friend teaching me now but he dont do the crunching style. He flakes a flat preform then grinds it completely over and then does a second final pass. Jim used to just whack off anything he didnt want with a trim saw then grind it to shape then one pass flake to finish in the same way you are doing. Im trying to learn exactly the way my teacher tells me then if I ever get proficient then ill adjust accordingly. Sure is fun tho! Thx for the video! Brought back some memories!
New sub here, have been getting more into flint/obsidian working videos; have found them to be very ASMR-esque. Found your working technique to be quite interesting. Hoping your channel grows like a weed. Best wishes.
Tim this is Norm. I can learn more from you in 10 mins of personal instruction, then I can by watching RU-vid knappers for a year. Thank you for all your time spent on me to make my work a 100 percent better over these last several years!!
In Australia the aboriginal people's sometimes knapped glass telegraph wire insulators. The linemen got tired of the lines being cut and insulators taken that spare insulators were left on ground. There is an example of an aqua blue Ishi point he knapped from an insulator I saw online. The insulator must have been split down middle and point made from the sidewall? I attempted once to chip a vintage blue-green insulator with poor results. The glass is very brittle! If you cut an insulator down middle with tile saw into two halves you could demonstrate an Ishi point. Wonder if indigenous people's scored the rounded top of insulators and struck indirect percussion to split for at least one usable half? Thank you and enjoying your videos. :)
There is evidence of the telegraph company doing the same thing here out west... It's not that difficult to split an insulator into large spalls with direct percussion so as to have several large workable pieces. 👍😉
Pre-dynastic Egyptian Gertzian ceremonial blades and Danish "Hindsgavl" flint dagger style blanks were ground and polished smooth before rippled flaked. The Egyptian blades were only flaked on one side. Also modern recreation of the Gertzian blades its thought a wood vise and lever pressure flaker might have been used. The parallel flakes are driven all the way across blade.
Yes they were and I have made them. They are some of the youngest examples of historical fog out there. The Danish daggers go back to the bronze age and the Turkish snake knives go back 8500 years from the best estimate. It is very easy to drive a 4" long flake on a gerzean blade without a jig or lever and keep them very clean.
