The BEST How-To Hafting Stone Points 

Already have your volume 1 as a hard copy, just picked up volumes 2 and 3 as you are in a league of your own. I'm an instructor too and you simply get it in terms of conveying information. GOAT and living legend. ROCK on Ryan, greatly appreciated!!!

Nice job Ryan. Thanks.

Hi Gill...I’m always watching, but I don't comment much...Here are some observations and suggestions you may find valuable or interesting to experiment with…LOVE the channel and what your doing and preserving for future generations... A video on glue blends…such as augmenting pitch glue with eggshell, fat, sinew, egg-glues, fish skin glues, etc. would be great!!!. These ancient blends are much different in characteristics (could fill a small book…hint, hint, LOL) Hot sand/ash blend warmed in a fire (or on a stove if that’s all you have) was called a “temper bath” by my teachers. You can experiment with this but experience suggests just hot enough that you don’t want to leave a finger in there longer than a count of four or so…(kind of like the first method for checking cooking in a clay oven test.) This is kept in a thick-walled ceramic pot/bowl (or cast iron) with about 150mm to 200mm of the sand/ash blend. The shafts and points bayth in this till working them. The sand is very fine (riverbed silt sand is the best I found and supper fine) mixed with about ⅔ ash ⅓ sand… Your finishing of these stone points is some of the best “modern work” I have seen and well thought out. I’m not sure if you have ever tried or experimented with it, but I’ve seen and (back in the day…LOL) taken the glue to blend all the way out onto the stone point and smoothed everything out. The only thing that is exposed is the cutting edge. This seems to, very effectively, strengthen and reinforce the brittle stone, and facilitate a smoother penetration, especially if your tips are “fatted” before hunting. I don’t know of any modern traditional hunter still living who still fat or lubricate their points here in North America, but I have seen some “Bush Hunters” in the Velt region that did so. I know I still oil my chisels (a method common in Asian woodworking) when timber framing and wood carving which significantly improves cutting efficiency and ease of penetration… On your lashing, I noticed, that it seems (?) you are relying only on the adhesive quality of the sinew to hold itself together. This works, but there are traditional knotting methods that are a tad more effective and will not undue themselves if the tip gets wet as easily, which the fat also helps with. You may find some of the lashing methods found in the Pacific, and there in Florida among some traditional Chickee builders, for both architecture and finer goods like lashing tools of value. Your search words are: “Lalava”...”Sennit”...”Magimagi,” if interested…

Great video.

Love learning new things, thanks for the new video.

Awesome info. That point looks like the one I lodged into a does elbow this last early fall. Maybe I can get it back this fall 😂

Love your videos! Thanks Ryan

TY Ryan.

wish that I could see what I was doing and feel with my fingers so that I could knap at all. Always wanted to hunt with stone points.

Good vidoes sir

I think sharks tooth could be great for Arrows head

Good instructional video

Do you think primitive people actually made sure they had that smooth transition. They didn’t seem like people who were perfectionists. If you look at plains indian arrows that had metal points the transition is very rough. Maybe they didn’t need that smooth transition because of the metal point and close range shots so they didn’t worry about it?????

i just looked up the laws here where i live and its unfortunate that i cant use these techniques in my state to hunt with.This would be such a cool way to hunt,just like our forefathers did hundreds and thousands of years ago

We don't have river cane here. Do you sell just river cane?

17:18 Me too, Ryan

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