Making a flint spear 

I never thought it was possible to have the equal of watching a man perform human history from 10,000+ years ago, right in front of our eyes. Thank you. The sound of the flint shavings falling down and clinking and clanging is so soothing. Almost as good as nice crackling fire.

Anyone who doesn't learn something watching your channel it because they just don't want to learn. Another amazing job. Thanks for taking us along 👍.

Great video Will. Went to a craft festival recently with my daughter and had a chat with you. It was very inspiring to hear someone so dedicated and enthusiatic to share knowledge of what you do. Thanks again.

Happy New Year for those who are alreadybin 2024 and beyond, and for those who are about to arrive! 13:23 on December 31 here.

I really appreciate how this channel honors the ancestors, and has fun videos. May the new year bless us all with unlimited abundance in all good things :)

Hi Will. Love this and all the videos you produce. Flint napping looks really interesting, would love to try it myself sometime. You have a wonderful relaxing way of putting things across which is really nice. All the best and keep up your great work, LB.

2:34 "And that is exactly what I could have hoped for." A nearly complete arrowhead in one blow. WOW! That is next level impressive.

We almost have control. It looked to me that you had control from the moment you picked up the whole piece of flint. Great job. Thanks for taking us along 👍.

Will, this video type is absolutely the best style. Up close and narrating your work/thought process. Learning from someone who has a strong knowledge base of the subject matter is such a pleasure to watch! 10/10

Thoroughly enjoyed your commentary - thanks for the video.

Thank you for sharing Will. I’m always amazed by your skills. Cheers

This is awesome. I could watch it all day.

Cracking craftsmanship as usual Will , happy new year mate (all hail Will our tribe leader)

Love from Central Coast California. My own fascination with ancient man turned me on to flint knapping, and I appreciate you talking about the peoples who's lives depended on the craft. You a one interesting dude. Cheers!

You make it look so easy when you decide to take those chance wacks on the blank!!!

I'm lucky enough to live very close to an Iron Age Hill Fort and regularly meet tourists, particularly from America, who are often stunned to comprehend the age of some of our monuments in Europe. A thousand year old church or castle or a Roman Villa is not unusual - we are so fortunate. But your work takes us back so far into prehistory that it completely boggles the mind :-)

You were amazing Will.....learned very much watching you knapp

I suggest using eye protection and appropriate mask to keep small dust flakes out of lungs. Guy is a great flintnapper

As always Will, you are the master knapper and I love watching your videos.

This is like watching Tony Hart or Bob Ross; it’s really relaxing but compulsive viewing. Happy New Year to all us cavemen!

That's an interesting identification note at 27:50 about pressure flaking refinements dating found points. I have what seems to be the three and a half inches of the pointed end of a longer spear point, made roughly chunky and quickly from non-flint fine-grained stone, that I found on our old farm when I was a kid. I'd be interested in seeing a few videos like you mentioned people made tools '"for use at the moment, they weren't trying to make show pieces", like building a simple survival kit from "what you can find rocks" not necessarily the best flint available. Another would be: what tool making tools do you pack in your "prepper kit go bag" because you can't take everything?

I'm fascinated by prehistory so watching you work and explain your process

You're quite the Knapper, sir. 4:30 ...Cortex... flint skin... hm... I had to look up, "skinflint", after ruminating about that, lol! Interesting. I love how language develops, although I would see a "skinflint" as someone who is very resourceful, able to create what they need from limited resources, not very cheap, like what the word means today.

Thank you Will for this. Fascinating to see the whole process in real time which helps me understand the decision making. I will be on a ferry to Brittany in late March and will keep an eye out in case you are on the same one and I can thank you in person.

I admire your skill & appreciate that you share your knowledge.

In less than an hour You have taken a piece of something old beyond old applied your experience of the craft to it with a positive attitude and the ability of your hands to create what you expressed you wanted at the start. All the while being able to explain without flaw how it is happening and why. Will you are a man worthy of respect and Im glad for you doing what you do. Happiest of New Years to you.

Always love watching your videos

I'm always cleaning and sharpening my tools. Very cool

Tremendous stuff. Loved this. All that hard work, and such a beautiful artefact at the end!

Great video today. Not only in content, but also in the color and lighting of the video. Really nice.

I hope than one day, you have time to come in my area. I would be very happy to show you some flint fields. Here in Perigord, whe found some amazing colors, from the black to the red, pink, etc etc.

Lovely to watch a Craftsman in action. Not many Craftsmen around these day's. People consider myself a bit of a Dinosaur. Nice to know I'm not the only practical person around. Have been intending to produce a blade of some sought. A Wonderful piece of Flint you had to work with. Most instructive demonstration of your technique. Has armed me with the necessary knowledge to produce the desired item,though of course like all skill's you make it look achievable. Shall continue to watch your video's. A Much Appreciative Raptor Rob 👌

I can't believe that you manufactured that from the lump! I've still got the arrow head that John made for me in Kilmartin when I was experimenting using nettle cordage on bows, 25 years ago :-)

Looking forward to the course in may. Maybe we can make a spear head or dagger.

Thank you Will. Incredibly inspiring. Thank you for sharing this window into our ancient past. It touches me in a place that is hard to describe. God bless you in this coming year.

First time of watching. Great video! What skill !!! I would've called it a finished product 3/4 of the way through. I've always marvelled at the knowledge and skill of people from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic in terms of tool making and also gathering of food and medicinal plants and herbs. How marvellous you keep their skill and memory alive in our ultra easy and modern existence. I shall be subscribing soon as this video finishes

I really enjoy watching you create. It is definite a art , I've collected Spare point add arrowheads Decades. I enjoy you you're creativity of the videos keep up the good work.

What a beautiful piece you made there. Educating, entertaining and suspenseful as always, your videos are a pleasure to watch. I am looking forward to discovering Carnac with you. Thank you so much for giving people the opportunity to see places which they can’t visit for themselves. Keep up the good work, mate.

Hey Will love watching you make stone tools from start to finish. It gives me that extra encouragement I need to start practicing with the chunk of flint I dug up when they put a road in over buy my house. I just don't have the tools or rather u should say do i know the tools best for making a knife or a spear point. I would love to take a course and learn it all but I'm in the States, and can't really afford a trip. But possibly a neat video idea teaching all the different tools that can be used and which are best at what times. You may have already made a video like that but I'd love to see something like that. Keep up the great work Lord. 👍

Thank you for your fine presentation. I get the feeling that every piece you work is an education for you as well as those who watch. I live in Nova Scotia not far from chalcedony quarry sites that have been used by native craftsmen for thousands of years. I fear local knowledge of how this work was done has been lost so what you are doing is desperately needed.

What a unique human being... Love you Mr Will.. Great stuff!

Loving your videos, and looking forward to seeing you at your earth lodge in February

~ Dear Will - I had the good fortune to watch an exhibition put on by your father and your late mother, and I was captivated. I enjoy your videos just as much: the way you tell the story of each flake is magical.

Hey there. My greetings from Central America and from a fellow knapper that plays the hand I get dealt with each stone. Agate has been my favorite by far to work with. Can’t go anywhere without having an eye spying for material to work with. Happy new year!! Keep up the majestic work my friend, our ancestors would be proud.

Thank you, Will. Watching you work is a great joy and somehow makes me feel tied to our ancient ancestors. As I watch I wonder if there were specialists within tribes who produced most of the tools, or was this a general skill everyone learned?

Thank you for sharing your process Will, appreciate you.

Always a pleasure

Great skills 😄 i awlays enjoy your style of knapping with natural tools and good piece of flint

I have watched two of your shows , whao great skill . I'm going to try and do some . I live near a chert mine , native Americans used to make tools . On my land I have found a arrowhead , chips , possible camp area . I live offgrid and am a bit of a servivalist. And i want to make a bow and some arrows , and a knife . I reall think I can .

Well-done mate, that's beautiful.

I live in east Texas we We find arrowheads every now then my best freind found a lance head it was almost 2 feet long

Nice work Will. Always appreciate these videos. Glad this stone turned out for you. All the best in the New Year! May your flint be clear, your tools strike true, and your bandaid/plaster box never run out!

Awesome job, looked beautiful at the end

Gracias por tu sabiduría y arte. Desde España, un abrazo.

cheers will me and tom made a wounderfull blow pipe for the fire circle in the roundhouse in holts feild had a go at flintwork a bit myself but nowhere near ur level its amzing you know ur a ledge man merry christmas and happy new year dude from me and the jagwar :)

One thing I would be worried about on your behalf is silicosis and smoke inhalation. I see the puffs of fine rock dust and campfire smoke while you work your craft in your lodge. When you cough, I can hear phlegm in your lungs. It is not healthy to be breathing that stuff. Both can lead to scarring of lung tissues, granulomas, and cancerous lesions. If possible, I would advise Will, and anyone else, to try to work upwind so that they are not breathing the materials from their knappings and try to ensure that their lodges are well-ventilated whenever possible and to use fuel with low levels of volatiles (like charcoal) to reduce exposure to persistent environmental pollutants in the air. Perhaps a charcoal oven would be a good project for you to build, Will.

such a joy to watch you work, i will always have time to watch a master at his craft generously giving us incredible insights into our ancestors with techniques that could easily one day be lost. massive appreciation for you mr lord :) happy new year!

Great Video.

We could learn so much from you

well done Will! looks great, the oil really brings it up nice.

I really really love and appreciate your energy and knowledge. I never would have thought that I would be so captivated by your videos and now I look forward to each and every one. Please keep up the great work and never stop being you. You are an amazing human being, I wish I could meet you and spend some time learning from you. Stay safe, stay genuine, stay you. Happy New Year from Maine, USA.

Your like the bob Ross of primitive tool art. You’re an amazing craftsman!

I look forward to these Saturday morning lessons and the insight you bring to the art & craft of working the stone. I'll have to get myself over to the UK for a workshop and get my hands busy.

Thanks will great job love your work my name is Richard I live in Alabama I wish you could make me a couple of thin by faces

Great idea for a spear, I never see anyone making spears and idk why bc they are pretty awesome. Thanks for being you by the way I hope you have a great new year

New to the channel I’m loving the vids so far, keep up the good work!

thanks for all you do great job

Great stuff Will! Your videos really captured my imagination. Just finished my third arrowhead and having a lot of fun.

Wow. You got lucky on that first whack ! Interesting stuff and useful . Thanks for the share . My ancestors used this idea daily in their lifetimes . :O)

Lovely! I didn't know that flint was porous. That oil treatment really brought out the beautiful surface finish. Watching these two-dimensional knapping videos, I can usually guess which bit the knapper will remove next or will be working toward removing. I would estimate that I am correct about 80% of the time. I can also predict the way that the material will fracture about 75% of the time. Of course, visualizing what needs to be done, and actually doing it are two different things. I'd like to try my hand at knapping. I think that I would be able to become quite good at it.

would love to see a video of it going on a shaft and in general various videos where after the flint knapping there is the creation of the tool

Nice! It's always a good time watching your whole process. Turning a stone into a timeless piece.

Yeah you definitely know how to do that interesting watching how you do that cuz being a city Folk you don't see much of what you're doing😂 but it's always good to have a video on hand because of what does world is coming to you'll probably be the only Survivor😂🎉❤

Love these videos. Thank you for sharing your skills/art.

Thank you for the running commentary as you are knapping, it really helps me understand the process and enriches my experience. Thanks again and happy new year!

Excellent video Will, this is now one of my favorite channels. Wish I could find flint here on Ontario CND. I do have a question regarding your outfit. I am a leather worker and I find your clothing/jacket fascinating. Did you make these your self? if so would you do a video on your clothing and how you made them? Cheers and Happy New Year Sir!

Outstanding, Will! I'd like to get hold of a rock or two or three. I'm in Pennsylvania. I have a couple friends who are avid arrowhead hunters, and there are quite a few collections throughout the county that come up for auction, but finding whole flintstones is, as far as I know, is difficult. It is almost as if, where you are, that the whole bloomin' Island is one giant flintstone.🤔🤥

It's amazing to me how you make the things you make. Thank you for sharing your talents and skills. Have a great day/ night. P. S. Still hoping to hear the rest of your story of the Ice Age. Hugs from Indiana USA 😊 💜💜☮️

Always amazed at your skill; very nice. I wonder what age ancient people started to craft usable stone items. Have a great 2024.

What’s up will! Always a pleasure watching the vids! Keep up the good work!

Sounds like a beautiful journey.....much appreciated you sharing your skills time and experience in your adventures....enjoy your day

I love your videos

Will Lord king of stone

It would be interesting to see all the tools that you can make from that one stone.

Yay! Almost started going through withdrawal, it has been a few days (Hi, my name is George, and I'm a Flint junkie)!

Hi Will, fascinating as always. Would it be interesting to see two axes being made at the same time. One with only hammer stones and one with soft hammer. To show the differences in technique.

Marvellous. Might I enquire about the small "nibbler" you finished it off with.

Hi Will! I was wondering, have you done much knapping with quartzite? There's no natural source of flint in my home province, so a lot of the points found are made of quartzite. The local peoples did trade for flint but it's not quite as common. Cheers!

Infinite love and gratitude .:. 🌀🙏✨

Love the video keep it up hope to make it over someday cheers

amazing work

Great video bud really enjoyed it and learn something too 👍

Primitive master!

Good health and prosperity to you for this year.

Fun and educational

dang, i so want to be able to make such one day! really need to find an affordable source of flint.

Thanks Will! Beautiful work, quite the cliff hanger!

From Cleburne Texas that cool man .

Bonne et heureuse année 2024.

Very nice always great work! Very interesting! Have a wonderful New Year's!!!