Primitive Survival Tips with a Caveman: Flint Knapping skills 

As an anthropologist who deals with much the same information, I am very impressed with Mr. Lord's exemplary collection of artifacts, taxonomic identification, and even the reproductions utilizing retroengineering, including his knowledge of lithic technologies and skillsets and knowledge of climatic affects on geologically produced clevage points and strata. I'll be looking at Mr. Lord's channel more frequently. Thank you for an introduction to him as well a your well-produced videos of building ancient dwellings. Cheers!

Will Lord is incredible, he’s a true master craftsman, I’ve watched him live streaming when he makes flint knives and so on, and it’s absolutely fascinating each time.

I met Will quite a few years ago and was so impressed by his skills and enthusiasm. A real Diamond in the Bushcrafting community. Great collaboration Mike.

I could watch this for hours, what a nice relaxing video Mike, you should definitely do this again.

What a genuine nice wholesome guy Will Lord is ,and his enthusiasm to share knowledge 👍

I could hang with this guy, making arrow heads, listening to him explain everything in detail all day. This was fantastic.

Will Lord is just awesome to watch and listen to very impressed.

Will Lord is probably the most Grnuine bloke known to man. His knowledge is astounding. Love the bloke.

This should be paid viewing! - He is a great teacher!

I really like this guy! Would love to learn all I could from him. I love history and learning about all the old civilizations. You should definitely come back out with Will and make more videos. Thank you for letting everyone know about him. Fascinating materials here.

This is the coolest dude I’ve ever seen in my life!!!! I love his hand made clothes.

Thoroughly enjoyed that. What a nice man Will is. Mike’s enthusiasm rounding off the best hour I’ve spent on RU-vid in a long time.

Love the British landscape, so inviting and cozy :)

This was amazing! Thanks so much for bringing this to us!

Brings back memories of a day spent with Will and friends learning flint knapping. I'd love to go back and do the bronze sword casting. I highly recomend his courses. I'm currently working on a ring (my own little hobby) made with a bronze inner, an outer face of red deer antler and set with a flint cabochon. I'm thinking of calling it, 'The ring of the Lords'. 😂🤣😂

Really interesting guy and video about his skill crafting the flint into an arrow head, that was amazing.

Brilliant! Thanks for this wonderful video. I must show this to my pupils. Thank you so much!

I used to build fences in greater London. Found loads of flint and always kept a flint blade to cut open bags of blast and cement. Wickedly sharp for ages

What a skilled person your caveman mate is!!!, awesomely helpful video, many Thanx 🔩💬💖

6:25 'Forest' Survival Gump: "Life is like a flint stone. You never know what you're gonna get."

Worlds collide, and now i have more than an hour to enjoy of two of my favorite British RU-vidrs. Add Lindybeige and it’s complete wahahaha!

Loved watching will walk through the forest sharing knowledge

What a great guy and superior knowledge base, if we still lived like that, we would have far fewer problems!

One of life genuine good guys , a super wisdom rich natural story teller , master craftsman and brilliant teacher 🙏☺️ Great to see gents 🎉

That narly birch was amazing 😍😍

Absolutely enjoyed this video!

amazing thank you for introducing us to will

Wow that's cool you did a video with Will Lord

Epic brother. Thanks for sharing Much respect!!

What an awesome video! Great guy. Would love to watch you guys colab more for sure.

Making a long bow was an incredibly satisfying experience. Mine is made of ash and took a couple of days hard work. And it works (toy amazement). Yew would be the dream.

Wow Mike, that has to be one of the best you tube video's i have ever watched. I love following Will, he is quite simply a hive of stone age knowledge. I had the pleasure of meeting him and Maud at TBS this year, and what a great guy he is. Look forward to the butchery video dude. Laters 🔥👍🏻

Both Will and his father are alike in the positive reinforcement, even when things go wrong. always looking for that positive, reassuring the student and passing the knowledge on. but it doesn't feel like they are, it feels like magic, bashing rocks and making something functional and pleasing to the eye, but then something clicks and you start to understand it. And then you think about it for a bit and you lose your track and feel as ignorant as you did at the start, but then the reinforcement of knowledge comes back and you understand a little more. Both are possibly the best teachers I've ever had the pleasure to study under, if only for a short time, get on a course if you get the opportunity. who knows, you may end up making a bow sat next to Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden, he went on a bow making course with Will! I still have a spear head that Will's father Jon made for me when I went on a course. a treasured item. Still waiting for the polished axe head off Will tho! lol

Imagine if cavemens where exactly like Will. The way he talk sounds really dignified and regal and intelligent. 😅.

I bet the Will Lord and Phil Harding from the Time Team would get along very well together...who knows, they might be best buds.

Amazing and knowledgeable individual. Thanks for sharing. :) :)

I was watching Will’s channel the other day and thought that it would be a wonderful video if y’all got together lol

The collaboration from heavens

This was an amazing video. Thank you for this.

I never watch these kind of videos but that was for some reason facetating

That Birch tree at 47:09 is a very rare and special tree.

Well, that was absolutely amazing, what an interesting man.😊

Will's Earth Lodge is about 25 minutes south of me, & I'm hoping to book one of his courses in the near future. Breckland is a great region for wildcamping & other outdoors activities. My local forest is only about a 15 min bike ride away. Also, if you ever get over to Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, you'll find Will acting in the presentation that is projected on to the cave walls inside Cox's cave.

A bit of trivia for y'all the smallest & sharpest scalpels in the surgeon's tool kit use obsidian blades. They are sharp down the single molecule edge.

All hail Will our tribe chieftain

Will's skills are a university grade education. We should make this mandatory teaching for adolescents. ONLY these skillsets will insure survival of our species after the next worldwide cataclysm.

Great video, love the info.

Great video and yours are very informative as well TA. Is that his land? Cheers Alex

More please 🙏

Thought this was going to be with John Plant from Primitive Technology. Shame, though I was wondering who that was in the thumbnail and when this was filmed.

Great video !!!

😮😮😮😮😮😮👍👍👍👍👍👍

Wow, I've never watched this guy before, now I have to.

Thank you for making this video and a sincere thank you to Will for sharing with us his knowledge. Incredibly interesting and made even more so because of his great way of teaching. Thanks again guys!

The guy is amazing

Couldn't see a link to the using of that flint knife on the dear

He is the most articulate caveman I've ever seen. But what an odd accent! 😊

TA Man - one thing you need to try with your ration pack puddings is heat they up. They have a lot of fat or lard in them, which when heated makes the dessert really soft and fluffy. Infinitely better than having them cold as bricks. It took me a while to learn!

We never get tired of rocks

좋은

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I hate that this was only an hour. You tease! lol

Isn't it illegal to live in the wilderness in the UK unless you own the land?

He made an excellent point about this sort of experience helping with mental health. Living in cities and working in offices has left us disconnected from nature, depriving us of the primal satisfaction you get from creating something with your own hands and accomplishing something tangible. Impressive as it may be, writing an awesome piece of code can't scratch the itch that digging a hole or chopping a tree does.

Will Lord is one of my favorite accidental discoveries on youtube. Happy I found him and even happier you are sharing this gem of a man with your audience!

Will Lord is superb. Taken his course. I was very impressed. Recommend him thoroughly.

Oh my, what a beautiful, soft-spoken, kind and interesting human being. Thank you for bringing him to your channel and sharing this all too brief insight into another time. This is what the internet should be for and I am glad you're doing your bit to make it happen.

this guy is out of this world, he has mastered all this lost knowledge

All my days! What an amazing treat. An absolutely fantastic must watch video. Well done, Mike, and thank you so much, Will! A true education. Loved it. ❤

So much respect for Will. He's living what he is teaching and he's so excited about sharing with others. We need more people like him. Oh, and you're in that category my friend. Please let him know how many people appreciate what he is doing. Respect from your friends in Florida USA 🌴

Absolutely Interested in Bow making! Any traditional skill that can be passed on is so important. All these old skills are being lost to time. Please keep on this theme and get as much of it recorded as possible!

What a genuine down to earth man.All the feelings he has,for what he's doing. A lot to teach,a lot to learn, good medicine.

I've just got to squee! Two of my favorite channels in a collaboration is just awesome!🥰

Great episode! Will is doing what he enjoys. He does not keep his knowledge to himself but teaches others. excellent!

will is an absolute reservoir of knowledge! so happy he's getting the exposure he's deserved for the longest time:) thank you!

SUPER AWESOME EPISODE MIKE! Yes please do a follow up episode 🙏🏼. Will’s talent and skills were such a pleasure to watch, and I’d love to see a bow making episode. Watching him fashion that arrowhead was mind blowing. 🍻 Cheers brother from across the pond, California 👊🏼😎🤙🏼

This man is absolutely extraordinary. Very softly spoken, with a genuine passion for sharing the enormous fountain of knowledge he has. What a lovely man. He has definitely gained a new subscriber.

This was incredible viewing. Engrossed from start to finish. He is a fascinating character and would love to see more collabs between you two legends (and more video content like this where you interview people like the Royal Marine). Amazing stuff!

What a amazing episode Mike and Will! I loved every second of this!!

What a great video. I've been following you both for a while and I really appreciate this collaboration, bushcraft, sheltercraft and primitive technology meet in the middle. I hope to be able to travel to England some time soon and follow a course from Will. Thanks again for the video, looks like you had a blast too

My Videos against yours is nothing, I feel sorry for myself. Please feel sorry for me. 😢❤

Awesome content!!! Really brings a contrast to your previous shelter build videos. Might want to have him as a guest out at your property. Do a co-build with him.

Fascinating video, fair shout for doing a Co-lab, Will is the Obe-one kanobe here for you and your 2.3 mill subscriber! - You posting this will get loads of views for your channel, hope Will benefits too !! Will is a master and you and the channel are privileged to watch him..

Great video Mike! I stumbled upon Will's channel months ago. He is an OUTSTANDING craftsman. The way he makes tools with flint look so easy is mind blowing.

You are an Authentic Survivalist Bushman, very skilled, and Naturally Artistic! That's Raw Living! I really Love the fact that you have such respect for Ma-Nature , & knowledge of the History of the Lands Past! I would like to see more of your Projects, and How to Create Items from Nature's Gifts! First Time Watching, Not the Last! I Enjoyed the Lessons! Quite a Process, but worth the Effort! This is MY kind of Watch! Thank You! Be Safe above All! GBU.,SM.,NZ.,✌❤😁🙏🤗👍😉

been watching your stuff for ages, only found this amazing teacher the other day and wow im really happy you've did a collab!

Amazing skills and an extraordinarily pleasant person.. I wish i could spend time with Mr Lord.. I'm just too far away.. South Africa is where i am

Just to keep the comments productive (rather than bemoaning the fact that I'm not more like this guy), I'd be interested to know if there was an historical artifact that Mr. Lord modelled his bow on: was the the Meare Heath design? The Stellmoor or Holmegaard versions? (If you're not a primitive archery aficionado, you'll find a lot to take in here.)

Wow this video is amazing!! SUPER interesting! 👍✌️

Amazing, so much cool information, what a wonderful person Will Lord is, so calm.

Overall, on RU-vid, there are not many folk who you can point to and say "there is a master". Be it masonry or milling or cooking et al. I can point to Will Lord and say THERE is a master of pre-history. Of course, asking him he is sure to say he is only a student and still has many things to learn.

I love this guy and massive respect for the skillset and knowledge he has!

Really, this video is a documentary. It is a comprehensive look at a way of life at a particular time in the human past.

This was amazing, please do more of these ❤

Did you record the skining and brakedown of the deer. Ive never seen it sone before and would like to know the prosess of how to do it

The amount of knowledge he posseses is just staggering! 🤯 My favorite part was the walk through the woods, really amazing stuff. I have watched Will Lord on youtube before, but that short clip of the walk was just gold! I found his channel as I am interested in primitive archery, so I would really enjoy it if you came back and did another video about that! 😃 And lastly, where is the link to the video of the butchering of the deer? I was really looking forward to that but I cant find it? Best wishes from a fan in the north of Sweden! 😊

At 11:55, when Will says, "So...with this rock..." my brain immediately filled in the rest, "...I thee whack!!" and I cracked up. 🤣🤣🤣

Thank you , Mike . Thank you , Will . 🐺 Loupis Canis .

Thanks for this amazing episode. Will Lord seems like a great chap, full of knowledge and so willing to share it. A true craftsman. You both had me transfixed all the way trough the film. Will is right about mental health and conecting back to nature 👍 I know something about it. Can't wait to see another film with Will 🙂 Good luck!

would definitely love to see a bowmaking video