Will Lord produces a flint axe in this video using a Fine but challenging piece of flint, the tools he uses are Quartzite pebbles and red deer antler hammers.
It's an amazing demonstration of years of work in about 20 min. Our ancestors were skilled beyond belief and you sir, have shown me a glimpse of that skill! Excellent video!
Totally mesmerized by the antiquity of this activity! One can imagine ancestors of old doing just the same. So skilled! How did you come to acquire your tools? Did you make them yourself? I would love to hear more details about everything you’re using and doing. Especially loved your expression, “song of the stone”! I have a thing for wind chimes and that’s one of the first things I noticed about your flint knapping: the beautiful melody it creates. PS BLOOD OFFERING AT THE END!!! Appropriate!!!!
Mister lord may be i can ask you a good question please. I have been a woodsman after my grandfather for many a year but why can't we live of our mother earth like the old ways . Awesome videos prim life all the way 👌👍✌
I wonder Will Lord is it possible to make a flint pipe as in a tobacco pipe not to endorse it or anything just could be a little challenge if it's possible
Youhave a mastery of the Hammer .. and stone and you must have a good feel for the shape.... I hope you en joy yhis video below about canadian pre historic people
Do not take this the wrong way but your voice does not match your looks, which was infact a very pleasant surprise as your voice is very calming and pleasant to the ears. Made this video 10x more educational and fun!
This may be an odd question, but would prehistoric man have made gloves? With how laborious day-to-day life would have been for them, wouldn't they have had need for some sort of hand protection (outside of naturally-forming calluses)?
I'm not an expert, but I know that Native Americans in Texas used Rawhide and leather wrapped around their hands when they were flint-knapping or foraging through mesquite trees for pods and in other situations where sharp or jagged things could possibly tear up their hands. Though I am curious about other groups using that method around the world and even in the Americas.
Hello will . I'm an instagrammer and also make videos for RU-vid too . I've been following you for ages now and love what you do my friend . I too want to learn the ancient ways and am waiting for the green light to utilise a small patch of land where I can practise as you do . Much love from south wales my friend, and I hope you dont stop making these videos.
You excellent fella. Very cool. Beautiful bit of flint. I live on the south downs and that is what we get. I've just started in the hope of making something good looking out of that stuff.
Mr. Will Lord, I find your knapping videos o be very instructive and informing. That said, I admit to having some confusion about the angle to hold the flint, the angle to strike the flint, the resulting frature's angle, and setting up striking platforms. Please, would it be possible to do a video where you diagram these important fundamentals with a marker on paper, and back the diagrams up with real world knapping demonstrations? I imagine I am not your only viewer who is confused about these questions. Thanks for bringing the ancient skill to RU-vid for us to learn, practice, and enjoy!
I enjoy the close ups very much thank you brilliant ancient skills…to quote the ancestors…those who remember the old ways will be the only ones who will see the future
