Those daggers are so cool , Ed Mosher is a knapping machine ha as soon as he is finished the dagger that took nearly two days to make when he handed you the dagger at the end he was banging away on some more rock ha awesome job by Ed , and thanks for the video really enjoyed it .
The stitches on the old school daggers had a lot of passes on them. The broken ones tell the story. Ed does great work, I hope he does more passes over them and make them look as good and perfect as Mr. Nunns.and the real ones.
Awesome skills mate. Very nice knife making. Well done. Thank you for showing me and the entire world your skills. Your knowledge and skills are appreciated. Again, thank you.
Thats gorgeous man! Thats the whole reason I got into flint knapping. Ive made lots of trifacial stuff but have yet to make a dagger. Soon I will try the IVa. Was hoping to see you at the new Caddo Ridge KI a few months ago. Someone told me you might be there. Until then im going to keep adding to my pile of Georgetown nodules! Great work and thanks for posting.
Living in a material world. Actually an ironic song to start off with as these daggers were probably made as final middle finger from the stone age. As bronze came around, the old masters showed they could make fancy stitched pommels in stone too.
TheDanishFinthead l enjoyed watching as well as learning from your video, my question is about the song that u played twice, once somewhat in the beginning then at the end, the 1 that's all piano. I'd appreciate it if u could tell me name of that song. Thank u so much, and again l really enjoyed your video
Thank you! The song should be a free download somewhere. It came as a free tune on my old laptop, which i no longer have. I am afraid i can't be of more help to you, sorry!
TEACH ME!!! please haha ive been flint knapping for about a year or two now and i still have trouble im mostly self taught but i would love to learn how to do that.
Yes he is close to the original, still missing the neat stetch, the original dagger can be seen here: i118.photobucket.com/albums/o88/Tomho1248/5e3d9b5b.jpg concerning stitch on type IV daggers, Ed Mosher has still much to learn compairing to D.C. Waldorf. Thanks -Tom
Haha! Didnt expect you, the owner of this piece to reply :-) I own the dagger made in this video, and have seen the original photo and many real daggers, and i must say that sitting with the piece in hand, the stitching is not too awful far from the originals. There are improvements to be made, but considering that Ed Mosher only uses antler for percussion instead of copper billets, and only lightly grinds only the blade instead of multiple grinding places, it is a nice result. DC has more experience and very possibly a better stitching, he uses alternative tools like copper billets and such. Enough justifying, both are master knappers and i really appreciate your comment! -Sofus
Agree both knappers are skilled and make nice daggers. It was not meant to talk Ed Down. Ed could properly improve if he saw more Pictures of ancient daggers. Sofus in the video Ed use metal nail to the stitch, no antler, but I think that is OK. The stitch in the originals are often made with metal tools as well. Another area to be improved is the thickness of the blade close to the handle. This is made when the daggers are almost done. It takes a lot of courage to finally thin the dagger properly. We estimate that at least 15-20 % of the daggers broke in this last finishing. Almost all modern daggers are far too thick in this area, and the flaking is to "weak" ending up doing the problem worse, when the dagger gets narrow. Then it is impossible to get enough length and the right angel in the flaking. Keep up the god work Sofus Thanks -Tom i118.photobucket.com/albums/o88/Tomho1248/084b_zpsdc1111d5.jpg
Very nice Tom! Yes, Ed used a copper nail to do pressure and stitch, but yet again there is controversy whether or not they used copper. I believe they did! I will talk to Ed about these things and i am sure he will think about it! NICE DAGGER! -Sofus
