Thank you for the simple direct commentary! So many folks I've been watching skip over some of these details causing a lack of clarity. Thank you again!
Range of hammerstones is extreme, was a dominant tool in tech from 2my ago to the end of the Stone Age. Exploring those ranges beyond what soft hammers normally take over for modern knapping is a keystone to most replication. Thanks for bringing attention to this wonderful tool
Absolutely. My pleasure. Hammer stones are a key, the first tool one should learn, more importantly so vast in shape/sizes/composition that any outcome is possible. Thanks for watching!
Great video! You passed on a lot of knowledge. I'm glad you mentioned the use of flat and round percussion stones that's something I kinda learned on my own. I never did enough percussion when I began knapping but as my old hands began bothering me I found myself doing more and improved my abilities with the hammer stone. Y'all go hit some rocks!
Absolutely. I think knappers learn so many things from just trying new methods in reducing a Biface. It’s a process, but the journey is so very worth it! Thanks for watching!
I'm in the process of moving from copper to abo. You covered lot of details with good camera angles and clear explanations of the entire process. Great work!
If a real good hammerstone gets too pitted I slightly grind it & rub the work areas into sand dust. Some basalt ones have lasted & worked for 30 years. They make me feel a sacred connection to the Earth. Thank you for a great informative video, and all the knowledge you share thru your research.
Hi Donnie, you have great timing ! I’ve been trying to Knapp more now that the snow is gone. That’s the problem I’ve been dealing with, I don’t know when to switch stones, or techniques, Thanks Donnie !
Definitely need to go poach some stones when I next pass a decent river. Guess it's a bit like using your axe more when carving rather than switching to the knife early. It's nice to watch people make things while you make things, whittling yet another catapult.
Great commentary. Hammerstone is all I had early on. Not to mention junk stone. Yes hammerstone alone would get most of the reduction to a piece that can work. Maybe not pretty. But functional none the less. Oh my the lousy rock I have smashed and managed a point or two I could shoot. All hammerstone. I use a very dense pointed rock to get tiny flakes. It works on a lot of junk rock that is half rust at times
Another great one Donny. I really like the fact that you explain why/when you transition from one type of hammerstone to another, strike vs slap through and then possible transition to pressure flaking. Also enjoy the bits of history that you throw in, very interesting. After watching some of your videos I have been playing w/ different sizes and shapes of hammerstones (best part is they're free!) and do feel like I am learning more about knapping than just jumping to copper. Abo style just seems to add more meaning to the point for me.
Nice hammerstone work & explanation. Very cool how you use the flat stone to strike & drag it transferring energy to remove such thin flakes. Well done! 👍
Man I learned more from your video then I have in the 7 years I've been learning this skill, thank you. Are you in the midwest? I'd like to learn more from you if you do knapp ins. Anyhow I subscribed so I'll be watching for more from you. All the best, Kenny
Thanks. Abrasion strengthens the edge. It makes it so a flake pops off. A sharp edge will just crush under the impact. A good abraded edge or platform is essential for popping good flakes!
I'm really enjoying you sharing more about the process ...the different methods & tools, etc.😊 ...& of course I enjoy your short videos & seeing you go from idea💥 to AWESOME & FUNCTIONAL end result⚡ in a FLASH, too!👍 Hmmm🤔...guess I went the LONG way around 👀😄 to get to this- *THANK YOU* for sharing!🤗💖
Do you know what I just realized? I possibly have a grinding stone. It's an obviously rounded, flatish, oval with some wear on 3 edges, just right for fitting 2 hands. Some look like striking marks of a hammer stone on the 2 short ends, but that might have been from smashing bones or other material, it has to be too big for a hammer stone and it's not hammer stone material. But as I looked at it, one long edge is absolutely ground down, the other side not at all, zero wear. I was trying to remember if it's from the beach or the farm stone pile and after looking at it, it has soil stains, so definitely from the farm stone pile and I don't take pieces that large from the beach. I'm amazed lol. I never paid attention before. It's very comfortable fitting in my hands, and I held it like you would for grinding something and wow, it's form fitting and it works when I simulated grinding. Now I want to go back to the farm pile and really take a good look with an eye towards hammer stones and grinding stones and workable stone. The edges are obviously worn around the stone, except the "back" side of it. Id say it looks workable bc of the material, it fits the criteria. No flakes out of it. I was going to use it for my hardscape in my fishtank, lol. I had these stones from the farm to laser etch on the machine, mostly to make memorial stones and there's only certain types of stone that take the laser really well. So, amazingly it fits both ancient and modern criteria as a useable stone. Sorry this ismso long, but I have a bucket list of finding points, or even just flakes of Native ancient peoples. This stone was so obviously used. Holy Moly. I found something.
this video is amazing. i use copper or whatever really. However i really do prefer thinning with a hammerstone. larger flakes, feel like more control. Please make more knapping videos!
Professional asf. I was confused on how you were targeting specific parts of the rock but then you demonstrated how you strike through it and basically slap it off. Loving your videos right now. I want to make an axe to avenge my father with.
Great job . I'm a beginner. Watching you I am learning so much . I'm in novaculite country . Everone says I have to heat treat my rock . I'm not sure the difference between chert and novaculite. Some clain there is chert here to . Eastern Ouachitas . There are ancient rock mines here , national park land so getting those rocks are forbidden. But possible down stream , I can find some . I watched a vidio on your knife . You said you did not heat treat , that it weakens the rock . Makes scence . So I will start cold knapping . Then see for myself . But I do appreciate your wisdom and love learning ✨
Establish a foundation of understanding hammerstone technique, and you will graduate to billets. My knapping teacher made it an emphasis for me to know the ins and outs of hammer-stones because it is the most widely available tool. If you have ever tried to make a billet without a hack saw and file it’s not easy at all. 😢
That’s they key…time breaking stone. It’s a must. I can’t tell people enough…just break stone, aim at popping a good flake and turn it into a tool. Make tools first…that’s they key. Then think about the projectiles later.
@Donny Dust’s Paleo Tracks i can get good flakes on big spalls. Its thinning those flakes that im struggling with, some have step fractrues and those 90 degree square edges. Rock on though!!
@@voose3839 in my experience whet there are steps/hinges it’s typically the result of a poor platform or striking the stone too soft. Sometimes is important to learn the relationship between the hammer stone/billet and the target stone. All target stone is different, but there is a degree of universality to it. Study the relationships, good platforms and hit the target stone with some force.
@Donny Dust’s Paleo Tracks should you build platforms with your hammer stone or percussion? Or when is the best time to do the antler tine and do smaller flakes for platforms? Can you do a video on how to build a platform and what instrument to use for that. Does size of stone matter? What type of stone is best for beginners? I have made a couple decent points off georgetown.
@@voose3839 no worries. I can do a video on building platforms. A large amount has to do with raising your edge above centerline. Size and mass of billet is a huge factor I. Popping flakes. I’ll do a video that covers it all. No problem!
Perfect time to get off of work to see your video, so excited! Your content is awesome and you radiate such positive energy through the screen. Keep doing you Donny!
It won’t be too long before we all learn more from this man than you would learn in the Boy Scouts.
Maybe one day. Appreciate you watching. Thanks so very much!
this mans taught me sooo much
Donny has already shared more than you'll ever get from boy scouts. Plus plenty of things you'll never get from the boy scouts
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Where can I buy rocks
That wouldn't take much. Boy Scouts just teaches the fundamentals. To really hone any craft, you have to put the time in.
Beautifuly done mate 🤙🏽💜
Thank you for the simple direct commentary! So many folks I've been watching skip over some of these details causing a lack of clarity. Thank you again!
Hey Donny! That green cowboy hat that you always wear, who makes it?! Thanks for the incredible videos, full of fantastic teachings my friend!
Range of hammerstones is extreme, was a dominant tool in tech from 2my ago to the end of the Stone Age. Exploring those ranges beyond what soft hammers normally take over for modern knapping is a keystone to most replication. Thanks for bringing attention to this wonderful tool
Absolutely. My pleasure. Hammer stones are a key, the first tool one should learn, more importantly so vast in shape/sizes/composition that any outcome is possible. Thanks for watching!
Sir this was a very informative and awesome video outstanding content I learn from you constantly thank you for sharing this six stars brother
Great video! You passed on a lot of knowledge. I'm glad you mentioned the use of flat and round percussion stones that's something I kinda learned on my own. I never did enough percussion when I began knapping but as my old hands began bothering me I found myself doing more and improved my abilities with the hammer stone. Y'all go hit some rocks!
Absolutely. I think knappers learn so many things from just trying new methods in reducing a Biface. It’s a process, but the journey is so very worth it! Thanks for watching!
Thank you Mr.Donny! 😮
the final image with the napped stone on the mother stone= epic. great video thank you!
I'm in the process of moving from copper to abo. You covered lot of details with good camera angles and clear explanations of the entire process. Great work!
Appreciate you watching. Happy to help in your Knapping adventures!!!
If a real good hammerstone gets too pitted I slightly grind it & rub the work areas into sand dust. Some basalt ones have lasted & worked for 30 years. They make me feel a sacred connection to the Earth. Thank you for a great informative video, and all the knowledge you share thru your research.
Hi Donnie, you have great timing ! I’ve been trying to Knapp more now that the snow is gone. That’s the problem I’ve been dealing with, I don’t know when to switch stones, or techniques, Thanks Donnie !
Very informative! Your ability to simplify the steps and procedures is very helpful.thanks!
Wonderful video! Awesome job working around that pesky crystal.
Thanks. Appreciate you watching!
Ok, now you're just showing off.🤣🤣🤣 JK, awesome video!🤙
Appreciate you watching. Thanks. Haha
Much appreciated this helps a lot thank you 👍
Hey beat video every. You are my favorite RUclipsr keep up the good works
Wow. Thanks so very much. Appreciate you watching and following the adventures. Much respect!
Definitely need to go poach some stones when I next pass a decent river. Guess it's a bit like using your axe more when carving rather than switching to the knife early.
It's nice to watch people make things while you make things, whittling yet another catapult.
Great commentary. Hammerstone is all I had early on. Not to mention junk stone. Yes hammerstone alone would get most of the reduction to a piece that can work. Maybe not pretty. But functional none the less. Oh my the lousy rock I have smashed and managed a point or two I could shoot. All hammerstone. I use a very dense pointed rock to get tiny flakes. It works on a lot of junk rock that is half rust at times
Another great one Donny. I really like the fact that you explain why/when you transition from one type of hammerstone to another, strike vs slap through and then possible transition to pressure flaking. Also enjoy the bits of history that you throw in, very interesting. After watching some of your videos I have been playing w/ different sizes and shapes of hammerstones (best part is they're free!) and do feel like I am learning more about knapping than just jumping to copper. Abo style just seems to add more meaning to the point for me.
I'm really liking your videos more and more lately this one has a lot of good information keep up the great content
❤
Excellent advice! Thanks! I even have a couple marble size "hammerstones" that I prefer to use sometimes over antler.
Nice hammerstone work & explanation. Very cool how you use the flat stone to strike & drag it transferring energy to remove such thin flakes. Well done! 👍
Man I learned more from your video then I have in the 7 years I've been learning this skill, thank you. Are you in the midwest? I'd like to learn more from you if you do knapp ins. Anyhow I subscribed so I'll be watching for more from you. All the best, Kenny
Hello great videos 👍🏼😁 i want to start with knapping can you recomend some stones to look for and which ones are good as hammer stones?
Really like your video 👍👍👍
Thanks. Appreciate you watching!
That's a beautiful arrowhead you made, I have a bunch of arrowheads that I found in my garden, I find 3 to 8 every year after tilling the garden.
Awesome. I don’t find too many, but when I do I get pretty pumped. You’ve got a hold mine there.
Thank you again for such an in depth video filled with information communicated effectively
Could you do a video on the various antler tools and their uses?
Absolutely. However I do have another video under my flintknapping playlist that covers down on them. Check it out. Thanks for watching.
Great vid.
Please explain why you abraid before striking with a hammer stone. ? ? ?
Thanks.
Thanks. Abrasion strengthens the edge. It makes it so a flake pops off. A sharp edge will just crush under the impact. A good abraded edge or platform is essential for popping good flakes!
Your skill level is at Legendary, always a good learning opportunity for me. Thanks for your hard work, and I look forward to the next video.
This video has helped me immensely!!!! Thanks!
I'm really enjoying you sharing more about the process ...the different methods & tools, etc.😊
...& of course I enjoy your short videos & seeing you go from idea💥 to AWESOME & FUNCTIONAL end result⚡ in a FLASH, too!👍
Hmmm🤔...guess I went the LONG way around 👀😄 to get to this-
*THANK YOU* for sharing!🤗💖
I seen a short of yours the other day of you barefoot in all of the flit knap scraps how do your feet not get cut up???
It happens every once and awhile, but most the flakes lay flat and it’s nothing significant. I also have pretty tough feet. Haha. Thanks for watching!
Where do you get your stone from.
This was exactly the video I needed to see right now. Thanks.
Donny, at what age (in the eras) did they start using antler along with hammer stones? That seems like a big step forward in stone working technology.
Outstanding video!
Do you know what I just realized? I possibly have a grinding stone. It's an obviously rounded, flatish, oval with some wear on 3 edges, just right for fitting 2 hands. Some look like striking marks of a hammer stone on the 2 short ends, but that might have been from smashing bones or other material, it has to be too big for a hammer stone and it's not hammer stone material. But as I looked at it, one long edge is absolutely ground down, the other side not at all, zero wear. I was trying to remember if it's from the beach or the farm stone pile and after looking at it, it has soil stains, so definitely from the farm stone pile and I don't take pieces that large from the beach. I'm amazed lol. I never paid attention before. It's very comfortable fitting in my hands, and I held it like you would for grinding something and wow, it's form fitting and it works when I simulated grinding. Now I want to go back to the farm pile and really take a good look with an eye towards hammer stones and grinding stones and workable stone. The edges are obviously worn around the stone, except the "back" side of it. Id say it looks workable bc of the material, it fits the criteria. No flakes out of it. I was going to use it for my hardscape in my fishtank, lol. I had these stones from the farm to laser etch on the machine, mostly to make memorial stones and there's only certain types of stone that take the laser really well. So, amazingly it fits both ancient and modern criteria as a useable stone. Sorry this ismso long, but I have a bucket list of finding points, or even just flakes of Native ancient peoples. This stone was so obviously used. Holy Moly. I found something.
this video is amazing. i use copper or whatever really. However i really do prefer thinning with a hammerstone. larger flakes, feel like more control. Please make more knapping videos!
🤙
Professional asf. I was confused on how you were targeting specific parts of the rock but then you demonstrated how you strike through it and basically slap it off. Loving your videos right now.
I want to make an axe to avenge my father with.
Great job . I'm a beginner.
Watching you I am learning so much . I'm in novaculite country . Everone says I have to heat treat my rock .
I'm not sure the difference between chert and novaculite.
Some clain there is chert here to . Eastern Ouachitas .
There are ancient rock mines here , national park land so getting those rocks are forbidden. But possible down stream , I can find some .
I watched a vidio on your knife . You said you did not heat treat , that it weakens the rock . Makes scence . So I will start cold knapping . Then see for myself . But I do appreciate your wisdom and love learning ✨
I’ve been trying to do flintknaping and I was wondering how you make your pine pich glue
🤙🏻
I'm laying in my bed, stoned like a rock, watching some guy knapping stones. Life is good 🌴🧐 Hope ya'll have a wonderul evening ❤
Haha. Enjoy the sounds Amigo!
Bro same , now I’m here looking for flint and making my first shillelage using stone tool. I never knew this would go so well with black smithing
I got stoned and stared learning knapping on glass. Day 2 of practice and I'm already making arrowheads thanks to these videos. Life's good :)
Hello -your videos - I am following -i don't have english- I am Turkish-Turkish-subtitle-Thank you
Establish a foundation of understanding hammerstone technique, and you will graduate to billets. My knapping teacher made it an emphasis for me to know the ins and outs of hammer-stones because it is the most widely available tool. If you have ever tried to make a billet without a hack saw and file it’s not easy at all. 😢
so much skill it just looks like a magic trick :)
Was just out practicing watching this. I ended up with pebbles😅 got some weird shaped rocks. Cant wait to get better. Gunna give it 30 min a day
That’s they key…time breaking stone. It’s a must. I can’t tell people enough…just break stone, aim at popping a good flake and turn it into a tool. Make tools first…that’s they key. Then think about the projectiles later.
@Donny Dust’s Paleo Tracks i can get good flakes on big spalls. Its thinning those flakes that im struggling with, some have step fractrues and those 90 degree square edges. Rock on though!!
@@voose3839 in my experience whet there are steps/hinges it’s typically the result of a poor platform or striking the stone too soft. Sometimes is important to learn the relationship between the hammer stone/billet and the target stone. All target stone is different, but there is a degree of universality to it. Study the relationships, good platforms and hit the target stone with some force.
@Donny Dust’s Paleo Tracks should you build platforms with your hammer stone or percussion? Or when is the best time to do the antler tine and do smaller flakes for platforms? Can you do a video on how to build a platform and what instrument to use for that. Does size of stone matter? What type of stone is best for beginners? I have made a couple decent points off georgetown.
@@voose3839 no worries. I can do a video on building platforms. A large amount has to do with raising your edge above centerline. Size and mass of billet is a huge factor I. Popping flakes. I’ll do a video that covers it all. No problem!
I have nothing but copper billets and a steel spalling hammer. How can I thin a stone with those?
Perfect time to get off of work to see your video, so excited! Your content is awesome and you radiate such positive energy through the screen. Keep doing you Donny!
Appreciate it greatly Amigo. I do what I can with what I got. Thanks!
Can you Knap quartz?
🙂🙂🙂🙃🙃
Can you do that with any stone
First I guess
Early Tribe!!!
Bro great voice and looks
I am having such a hard time getting my flakes to travel far enough to thin it and not have it stay thick in the middle.
Requires more skill or more luck
:)
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Can I guess your age?… 46?
43…close.
Wow
Bro great voice and looks