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No offence to you donny but your videos never need music no matter how tempting it may seem because you're totally captivating all on your own as a speaker.

I've been watching your videos since I was in highschool but only started to flintknap within the past year. Something about the way you've explained flintknapping and the way you've filmed it helps me to understand it better than other videos do. Flintknapping has become a true passion of mine to the point where even just seeing it on a video brings me genuine happiness. I'm itching to get out in my garage and start working on one of these knives for myself now 😂

Thanks Donny for sharing your skills with us. Your videos are wonderful.

Almost hypnotic watching you do this. Very relaxing. Thanks for another great video.

Never stop showing and telling/teaching. Thanks

Absolutely outstanding knife I love the sound that the flakes make as they hit the ground thank you for sharing this enjoyable video with us six stars brother

Ya know.. I’ve had trainers in the past and they’ve all been great! But you have a way of teaching without speaking. My past trainers could tell me anything and everything, but just simply watching you do what you do, even in times of silence is educational.. I’m captured by it. Thank you for this! Hope all is well.

You sir are both a craftsman and an artist

I would watch you create anything my husband always says are you watching your caveman again 😂

Love our ancestors crafting. I made my first spear and small hand knives. Heading for club and axe and spear. Keep the work out!

Thank you for your great videos 👍👍👍

That thinner stone was an "Aha moment for me". The local schoolyard was landscaped, this summer. My 7 year old granddaughter brought home a stone with a thumb hold notched in it. Now I know what it was used for. I even found a pemmican making tool, from a different site.🤙🤙

That's a thing of beauty right there man! 🤙🏽💜

Thanks for sharing another great tutorial/video. Keep your videos reeling in !!!!

what a beautiful piece of stone! and you made it into a beautiful knife. a stone bowie knife almost by the size :) always fun to watch you knap Donny! All of your stuff is interesting. Appreciate your details. happy new year

Great video. At one point in the clip you went searching for a tool that went missing and it gave me a strangely comforting thought. I imagined an ancestor cursing in whatever way he knew, while searching for a missing tool he just put down a second ago. The craftsman's curse.

I wouldn't have thought to use the back of that knife as a scraper! Thats just brilliant, thank u for info!

Great video as always Donny! Thanks for sharing!

First-time watcher! Making that knife was amazing. Great job!

nice knfe donny I have ben watching you for 3 years now you are a rely good content creator and i hope that more people find your channel 👍🤙

Always interesting and fun watching you work! Great work! Have a wonderful week!!

Watch your stuff in thr background while working, I find it very therapeutic. Your craftsmanship is art!

Without this knowledge and skills or close to the power of many. I would die, and follow you into war. You single handle le opened my mind to the rock knowledge. Namaste🤙 rock on.

I love how you create an explain everything your doing, I'm an old dog but I look forward to watching your channel so I can learn.

Thank you for the upload! I do enjoy listening to your podcast while I am walking/hiking, it is these videos with demos that really get it for me. What a knife! So many uses.

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing this with us!

the videos you make are some of the most interesting, relaxing, informative and fun to watch stuff i've seen on RU-vid, i'm glad i found your channel!

Great Video , Donny ! Great information you are sharing with all of us!!!!!!!!! That is one Beefy Knife you made. I say it will last quite a Long Time ! Take Care and Be Safe

It’s always fascinating to me, watching the transformation from chunk of stone to useful tool. I understand the difference needed in striking angles and the need for different striking tools, but please explain the need for “dulling” the edge of the stone by rubbing a stone on it. Thank you for making such cool videos!

Thank You Donny , that is a great design cave man army knife. I see the upper paleolithic tools France, Spain and think small is smart. light portable no big thing if lost. But for the large large mammals You got them beat, great job!

I love your informative videos man keep it up

Thank you for sharing your knowledge Donny, true tallent and amazing skill

Awesome knife ! Thanks for sharing your talent with us!

There are lots of very accomplished US knappers on YT, but very few who seem passionate about using paleo techniques. Love seeing the antler put to good use 🤙🏻

So glad I found this channel. You are a master of your craft. I have been wanting to get into primitive crafting. I am definitely going to try this out. Thank you for what you do.

Amazing skill, really neat, god bless you

Nice

excellent

I made one of these out of obsidian bc of another knife i saw of yours in anouther video and ya i love it. I wish i could make one feom harder stone but not good enough at knapping yet lol. Great video man i hope i learn something from this vid. Appreciate it

When i watch flint napping vids like this i see grandfather's sat around the camp fire's with there grandsons showing them how to make the tools for hunting building bows telling tall tales of their first successful hunting trips

beautiful love your shows and work. love your Day in the life videos

I'm glad to hear , no heat treating . I understand , heat weakens the rock . I'm a beginner. I'm goung to fallow your teachings .

This is an excellent video man, love how your making the knife.

Great lesson i myself am a knife horder lol but that stone one looks really cool and useful great work mate enjoyed the lesson thank you 👍🦘🇦🇺

Fantastic video as per usual man, that piece just looks stunning mate. Great stuff!

Love the videos wish you post a little more often.... definitely enjoy them learn so much from your videos watching from South Carolina

such a cool design, awesome work man. like others have said, the music was cool and it fit very well. I prefer no music just cause I like to hear the stones and you seem like a cool dude but im chillin either way. for real though very cool video

That is a beautiful knife and a wonderful video very good very good

I'm an avid rockhound, and after seeing that thing I have never wanted a piece of rock more in my life LOL

Yeah I love your videos even though I haven't flint knaped before I plan to not sure when but I'll get to it one day

Ace watch thank you for sharing

im so glad you did that Mud Sweat Beards show, it was my gateway into your world 😁

Crushin' the tips, big dawg!!! Keep it up, we're all about to be Hunter Gatherers again

Very cool. Thanks so much for sharing

Super cool to watch

Loved the vid, very informative. Thanks, I will be looking for some root beer stone and I like the design

Well... I can make sparks with stones and some flakes. I guess it is something! Good video brother, thanks.

Amazing skills

Thank you uncle Donny

Donny, your videos never cease to amaze me. Wish I had a quarter of your talents and knowledge 😳

Bro this knowledge you share is like so engrained in all of our collective memories it just feels right and i can actually feel the stone and smell the hand tanned leather along with a touch of wood smoke....if that even makes sense? Its like your waking up a part of my brain thats been dormant... theraputic !

Absolutely awesome video! It's funny how I watched this whole thing, and I STILL have no idea how you did that. It's literally like magic. Nice job, sir!

Awesome. Thanks much, donny.

Nice I got a idea now hope we can make something’s together one day ❤i love every single video

Incredible!! You just get better and better! Perfect lense shape or perfect convexity. Smooth as buttah! I can see how that blade type would be more versatile and utilitarian. The overshot flake you hit at 26:01 was amazing. It amazes me how a flake can travel across then curl down all the way to the other side. Platform must be perfect. Keep up the stellar work and have fun! Your living the life man!

WONDERFULLLL!

Awesome as always Donny👍

I Love your Videos, Thank you for making them.❤

Rock on. Entertained by the fact you realised it was pretty big but just went with it.

Thank you

amazing!! 👏

Great job thanks for sharing

Excellent video. Ive seen a lot of your shorts, glad to find a longer video of knapping. Very relaxing and interesting at the same time. You articulate the techniques you are using better than most youtube knappers. Thanks for the content!

Wonderful and distinctive work🤙

Awesome work and explanation. Thanks

I love this knife design Donny, I’ve been wanting to make one for the last year.

Just discovered your channel and I must say I'm hooked. Amazing work and thank you for teaching free lessons in knapping. I grew up in the city but have always been interested and even tried to toy with the craft when I would go on camping excursions. Great stuff, thank you.

hey donny fellow knapper here looking at your tool kit i noticed something i have noticed with many knappers many use the hard hammer and soft hammer concept when referring to antler and hammerstones but many of the master knappers who specialize in replication ive learned from make another distinction between hammerstones and antler. they give antler, wood and horn its own category of organic tools. they use use the soft/hard hammer to mean hard hammerstones basalts quartzite etc which are used for early stage work like spalling i more of a punching type manner as opposed to the glancing blow used in later stages and soft hammerstones such as sand stones limestones etc which as mentioned are much softer but much grippier once the platforms are ready for antler or as a transition tool it gives a new set of options because it combines the weight of a hammerstone without the shattering impact of harder stones so the energy transfers more like antler just curious if youve heard about the concept and if not it might be an interesting avenue to explore. flintknapping tips and palemanjim have videos posted to youtube on the subject. happy knapping brother

Wonder vid. You now its funny. I make knives and black smith. And makeing those same tools out of stone seems far more difficult to me. Major props to you.

Your amazing 👏 brother ❤

Freaking impressive. That is one bad ass knife dude

"Drop the steel" Looks over to my reliable knife "He doesn't mean it"

New sub, you are a true artist and inspiration

6:15 a perfect blade.

awesome video! gonna try and replicate that

Donny just found your site last night and i have subscribed. So I will be commenting on here as i play catch up on all your videos. I am huge into the native culture mostly the eastern woodland Indians the Ojibwe and other ancient cultures around the world. I am in Ohio and go to the Flintridge knap-in the big one in the fall labor day weekend usually go up on Wednesday and leave on Saturday. love seeing you using primitive tools to make primitive items as you do. good friend of mine Dan made me an obsidian spear point that's 13 to 14 inch's long all made with primitive tools as his Great Grande faither would have done, Dan is of Cherokee descent. Keep up the good work. My native name is IIByrds Thanks! Larry

What a truly excellent video. NGL, this has inspired me. Though I am super unfit!

nice video

This is appealing to me

How many times during the making of this video did Donny say to himself, "Yep, I'm a badass"

I felt engaging music. 😮

Merry christmas & happy new year sir donny ❤🇵🇭

Awesome knife Donny, thanks for showing us! My name is donnie too.

The touch.

Donny been a long time. I see you still got the skills to pay the bills brother. Phenomenal content as usual. Respect bro.

Awesome content bro keep it up

I really likie your videos, because you are actually using stone and horn for the knapping. A lot of the other knappers than youtube has recommended, use copper or even steel and I just don't like the sounds that those metal tools make.

Recently got a starter kit for flintknapping from a good friend. Been searching for stone material to use here in Montana like porcellanite and chert. I got some grey porcellanite. Have you ever used it? And if so do you know if it’s a good stone to use? Love your videos btw. You are a big reason I’m starting to flintknapp.

love ya BROTHER

You are perhaps the only man I know to make a rock look sexy, what a lush blade you made, awesome vid always learning day by day 🔪🔪