Sandwich Flintknapping Part 1 

I'm just beginning to understand a little of how and why you prep a place to begin the knap. So you just show your skill. I love your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge

I'm glad to watch this travel to past - I always imagined how ancestors made flints and tools. Very interesting your option for the direction to flint - to me geologist your choice is clear congratulations

Thanks Jim for posting this. That's a great idea of using the anvil rock.. I haven't tried that technique yet but I can tell just by this video that the sandwich stone really adds temporary mass to the biface and makes it much easier to knock those long flakes. I've done some punch knapping & I really like how you quickly you can make very thin, flat bifaces. Awesome vid!! Billy

Good insight on the sandwich, will definitely give it a try. Maybe it'll even help me keep from snapping pieces in two, as I tend to do that more often than not...there's obviously something about supporting a piece that I've missed along the way. lol Thanks for postin' up Jim, great vid as always.

Thanks for a great video! What I love about this is that, evidently, you very well may have 'discovered' or evolved a new way of working…that happens all the time in life right? But not often with a tradition that evolved incredibly slowly, often not really moving much for millennia and is what? 3 million odd years old! Put another way it's incredible and beautiful that you seem to have added a useful, 'core'- ( forgive the pun!) technique to SUCH an antique, well one of the very oldest of all ancestral techniques/technologies. AMAZING! I will try it... really superb! Super well done and further good luck and great explorations, evolutions and such good things to you! Thanks again!

Thanks for making these videos! That inertia control idea, "sandwich technique" makes a lot of sense. I wish the thumbs up, "like button" for this video was still working.

Technique particulière et interressante. Merci pour cette démonstration.

Using rocks to hit rocks to make cool rocks.

Slick. I think that as the tools and and points made by the Solutrean culture in what is now western Europe and later in the eastern US and Canada were probably made in the same manner and with similar tools as the marks and rock flaking on these later, picture samples and those from 20K years back are either the same or similar.

@jamieknaps I look forward to seeing your video, there are many possible ways to punch so we can all learn from each other, thanks...

@gotrocksinhead I was shooting for overshots on the early flakes and mis-judged the toughness of the stone, my fault really. I should have backed off on the angle! A few of the Hummingbirds stay here all year long, they are cool!...thanks

I thank you for the video. I wish you’d have shown yourself setting up your platforms.

I think I'll try this after work today. I have a bifaced core that I been waiting to finish

@kyletango I was trying to add mass to the biface and figured a stone on top might help. I have since learned that Mike Dothager uses a chunck of red ocher in a similar way. Perhaps others out there have done this as well?

Awesome tip,thanks for sharing..... Rich

I am curious as to where you came up with this technique. Looks like a good idea. Thanks for sharing.

you are a great teacher thank you

@stevensarchery We have a good supply of ryolite in the California desert and I picked up a couple milk crates of the stuff last year. Kinda tough stuff, but works OK with the punch and I like the looks of it, even fresh made points look old!.

it seems you were having more problem than normal with having flakes end in step fractures on this one. If that is true, my guess would be more with the use of the punch or the cortex of the rock being the problem rather than the sandwich stone. Am I off base with this? It didnt look like the problem was with the sandwich stone. I like the idea of the sandwich stone. Dan You have hummingbirds.. We still dont have very many yet. Gotta love springtime!

Very interesting again, thanks.

Is that piece of Pedernales heat treated?

Hey guy great video!!! Iv'e learned a ton of techniques from you, so first off thanks for that!! I live in the Hill country of Texas Llano to be exact. Anyways I have good access to the same material that your using in Fredericksburg and I have trouble a long with every apprentice on the thinning process.. do you heat treat that same stuff? and if so will it help me drive thinner longer flakes to thin?

Hi Jim, do you ever do classes or one on one instruction? I live up near Mono Lake but I'd be willing to travel if you're interested in giving some instruction.

What is your punch, whitetail or mule deer?

you need to make them like the primitive people used to on the fly out in the field

good video thanks -boyce

Anything new?? You alive still or what?

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Hi Jim ive been watching your vids for awhile now im interested in commissioning you to do some work is there an email address i can give you details through if your interested thanks and keep up the good work