@@kensanity178 i can do too but with high grade stones like obsidian or europian flint nodules. Thats why i like when jack work with mid low grade or crack stuff
Well , finished the video,over some coffee, love the point. I actually like that style and it shows the way out of a situation that can always occur. Great job.
1:11:25 Probably everyone got antler back then because deer drop them every year, but they probably won’t share the stone tho like that stuff’s in high demand only the guys good at napping or in charge of making weapons would get to touch it + they also used antler for other things idk exactly what but they don’t just use it to nap they also use it to carve things into I think
Love your sense of humor! Very entertaining and you taught me some things! I’m new to your channel and want to thank you for what you do!! As for the artifacts they were not doing it for art or for anything else other than an important everyday survival tool. I’m sure they knapped them down until they though it would perform the duty they had in mind for that piece and that’s all. We have life so easy now days we can do it as a hobby and be very judgmental about pieces.
This is one of my favorite videos you've done. I love your sense of humor. Yes to reverse. I've been getting alot of that same rock from a guy in texas. I broke my ring finger on that stuff and kept going. I like that it's so tough because the tools I make with it are way more durable. I didn't get many good sized blades from 28 pounds of it but have gotten alot of smaller ones. Under 3 inches. Perfect for craft making knives and skinning knives. And you're sure right about over baking it. They definately become snap in halfs even more. I like how you were able to change the stem style. And I really love the "crude" look over the cnc machined look. You are truely the knap master.
What I most love about learning a new skill is that moment when something clicks. Two weeks ago i picked up a piece of really crappy Onondaga and a hammer stone at the local creek while fishing and figured why not. It was an awful experience. last week i found some glassy/waxy tile in my garage the kind that is homogeneous the whole way through. I decided to try to pressure flake it. After two days i had 3 blisters and two sore wrists and one 1 inch rudimentary point. Pretty chunky but it was semi-usable. Yesterday i went to Lowes and picked up a aluminum rod and tried indirect percussion. I picked up another piece and ruined it within 10 hits. I thought about it for a bit and tried to apply some of the things i learned while experimenting with pressure and i came out with a two inch point semi-thinned (4 to1ish) and with no original surface. Nothing like the points that i see here but I'm pretty sure I am hooked now.
Sounds like you are on the right track. It's certainly not the easiest thing I ever tried to learn but if you feel hooked on it, wait til that becomes obsession haha. If you have the desire, you will do this
Try some obsidian. It can and will break on you but it flakes very easily. When I was starting out it was easier for me to get a feel for the basics on obsidian. I could make a decent and thin point with obsidian before I could with Chert. Once you get a better feel for the right platforms you’ll realize that you barely have to hit obsidian to get nice flakes. Also if you can find some thick glass that is nice too.
@@j.shorter4716 obsidian is not beginner material. In my opinion, obsidian is a material to specialize in. I work exclusively obsidian and have for 13 years. It's not starter rock.
Looks like it's been a month, and I didn't cook up a batch of this. Oh, well. Probably lost the debitage flakes by now. You never know how well it will heat treat anyway. That's my excuse... 😁
The word is reciprocity and no, that wasn't the status quo. People have always been wasteful and the victors have always gotten the spoils. Mr Patrick is correct.
I found a nice green kirk corner Notch last month in a creek I hunt. Like to have some of that myself. Also been looking for some Teal glass for a project. A lady friend of mine who has female cancer asked to make her a necklace and matching earrings. The Teal ribbon represents her particular cancer. So I'm on the search for some. Prolly end up at an antique shop looking thru the colored glass section.
As a kid, Dad would take us to the Cumberland River where there was a camp site. The water was slow and shallow & I would float in an inner tube with my arms dangling in the water. There was slate everywhere and I would feel the stones & found many arrow heads that were defective in some way. I think the Native Americans would mess them up, get mad and throw them in the river.
It's not a stone. It's a piece of a large industrial grinding wheel. You can find small ones at the hardware store. The large ones are very expensive. www.grainger.com/product/NORTON-Straight-Grinding-Wheel-Type-26ZV80
You have a ton of videos that's awsome. Do you have a video where you knap an untreated and a heat treated piece from the same rock in the same video to show the difference. Thanks. 👍🏼
River bed material has been beat up from getting rolled around in floods. I don't have lots of quarries so i search the numerous local riverbeds. I find lots of flawed cracked pieces.
Every time you pull out the box cutter knife to get out those fingernail step fractures my anxiety goes through the roof, they are very sharp, be careful!
Could you please send me a link of a good trusted flint supplier? I'm looking for bigger hunks at the cheapest prices if possible?? Thanks in advance and love watching you knapp
Jeff Head Georgia Chert and Jasper facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077372270590&mibextid=ZbWKwL Brad Moore Horse Creek, Hornstone, Buffalo River facebook.com/outpostaxidermy?mibextid=ZbWKwL Curtis Smith Texas chert, Various stone m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005984145744&groupid=294140764699326&eav=Afa5QGrjr_s_cRNXqNd49zqjAf33X2QPyVvZrcUtU4bEY4wyjqyPqEWbPCrUhldU9YM&ref=m_notif¬if_t=group_activity&paipv=0 Brian (Rock Wash) Texas chert www.etsy.com/shop/RockWash www.ebay.com/usr/centralt0
I am trying to get better at making a sharp edge that is not wonky, and not un-semetritized! Got over the "turtle-back" of thining, now just need to keep it semtritized!!😂
Im out there in corner of my garage. I got my rock Im pounding on, another future turtle backy looking wonky biface. Every time i whack it, i say "What would Jack do?"
Yeah. There's a rumor going around in the flintknapping circle that you can soak an arrowhead in water for a while then put it in the freezer to "pop out" all those little step fractures (because water expands when it freezes). I've never tried it.
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lets be honest, we all like rock to point videos with mid grade stones 😃
Yeah, we all wish we could do it. But at least we can watch Jack do it.
@@kensanity178 i can do too but with high grade stones like obsidian or europian flint nodules. Thats why i like when jack work with mid low grade or crack stuff
I'm just starting to knap its a lot of dedication and tedious work. THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEOS.
I can’t even make an Achulean tool with whatever Jack has he can make an arrowhead
Well , finished the video,over some coffee, love the point. I actually like that style and it shows the way out of a situation that can always occur. Great job.
Thank you
I crashed out early last night. Watching now. 😎🏹
I was wondering...
@@KnapperJackCrafty def missed some Crafty vids this week. Expect a return package soon as I can. Few things I wanna send you.
It usually takes me 3 days to finish a video! Between work and wife....😂😂😂
What a fun video to watch!! I'm just a beginner and enjoying it. THANK YOU.
You're very welcome 😁
My late father respected you. I enjoy watching and possibly will try to your trade soon.
1:11:25
Probably everyone got antler back then because deer drop them every year, but they probably won’t share the stone tho like that stuff’s in high demand only the guys good at napping or in charge of making weapons would get to touch it
+ they also used antler for other things idk exactly what but they don’t just use it to nap they also use it to carve things into I think
Love your sense of humor! Very entertaining and you taught me some things! I’m new to your channel and want to thank you for what you do!!
As for the artifacts they were not doing it for art or for anything else other than an important everyday survival tool. I’m sure they knapped them down until they though it would perform the duty they had in mind for that piece and that’s all. We have life so easy now days we can do it as a hobby and be very judgmental about pieces.
True
This is my new favorite channel
It’s so good, he could just put this stuff to a podcast even without the wonderful knapping.
Very nice. I definitely enjoyed the video thanks Gene Gorringe Mi 👍 ✌️ 🇺🇲
Nice tough stuff. Don't look so tough when you get with it. It does look like some quartzite though. Thanks for the video. Ever onward. 👍
Thank you sir always helpful for us newbies.
You're very welcome
This is one of my favorite videos you've done. I love your sense of humor. Yes to reverse. I've been getting alot of that same rock from a guy in texas. I broke my ring finger on that stuff and kept going. I like that it's so tough because the tools I make with it are way more durable. I didn't get many good sized blades from 28 pounds of it but have gotten alot of smaller ones. Under 3 inches. Perfect for craft making knives and skinning knives. And you're sure right about over baking it. They definately become snap in halfs even more. I like how you were able to change the stem style. And I really love the "crude" look over the cnc machined look. You are truely the knap master.
Thanks!
Well you made a nice perdernales from a accident well done crafty!!!
Thanks 🙂
Love your videos bro. Keep 3m coming. edumacated😂😂😂😂
😁😁
Patience, knowledge and skill produces a nice thin point. you have it my friend. Great job.
Thanks
What I most love about learning a new skill is that moment when something clicks. Two weeks ago i picked up a piece of really crappy Onondaga and a hammer stone at the local creek while fishing and figured why not. It was an awful experience. last week i found some glassy/waxy tile in my garage the kind that is homogeneous the whole way through. I decided to try to pressure flake it. After two days i had 3 blisters and two sore wrists and one 1 inch rudimentary point. Pretty chunky but it was semi-usable. Yesterday i went to Lowes and picked up a aluminum rod and tried indirect percussion. I picked up another piece and ruined it within 10 hits. I thought about it for a bit and tried to apply some of the things i learned while experimenting with pressure and i came out with a two inch point semi-thinned (4 to1ish) and with no original surface. Nothing like the points that i see here but I'm pretty sure I am hooked now.
Refinement comes with practice.
Sounds like you are on the right track. It's certainly not the easiest thing I ever tried to learn but if you feel hooked on it, wait til that becomes obsession haha. If you have the desire, you will do this
Hooked and about to be reeled in. Wait 'til you try some good stone.
Try some obsidian. It can and will break on you but it flakes very easily. When I was starting out it was easier for me to get a feel for the basics on obsidian. I could make a decent and thin point with obsidian before I could with Chert. Once you get a better feel for the right platforms you’ll realize that you barely have to hit obsidian to get nice flakes. Also if you can find some thick glass that is nice too.
@@j.shorter4716 obsidian is not beginner material. In my opinion, obsidian is a material to specialize in. I work exclusively obsidian and have for 13 years. It's not starter rock.
The more I watch the more I learn👍👍😳
Awesome 👌
this stuff is very pretty with the banding , i would really like to see it heat treated and see if there is any difference in the pattern or texture
I'll cook up the flakes and post a follow up video in a couple days.
@@KnapperJackCrafty sounds good ! i will watch out for the video
Looks like it's been a month, and I didn't cook up a batch of this. Oh, well. Probably lost the debitage flakes by now. You never know how well it will heat treat anyway. That's my excuse... 😁
Great information!
The word is reciprocity and no, that wasn't the status quo. People have always been wasteful and the victors have always gotten the spoils. Mr Patrick is correct.
Really? Yeah! Now you know 😆
The banter is fun
Thank You Jack for all these video's and Please remember folks to hit the THUMBS UP FOR JACK !! Jack have you a source for Green flint?
No, I don't have a source for green flint other than the occasional "greenish" hornstone or similar material.
I found a nice green kirk corner Notch last month in a creek I hunt. Like to have some of that myself. Also been looking for some Teal glass for a project. A lady friend of mine who has female cancer asked to make her a necklace and matching earrings. The Teal ribbon represents her particular cancer. So I'm on the search for some. Prolly end up at an antique shop looking thru the colored glass section.
Man Jack, you are great at some indirect percussion!! You really knock the crap outta that bar!
@@quikdraw5203 😁
@@KnapperJackCrafty Thank you . If you ever run short of obsidian I live close to a Long time source of the black and Mahogany material.
Do some stones have a directional grain that you can use to help guide a flake?
Yes, but the grain will only help drive a very small percentage of flakes. Mosy flakes will not follow rhe grain no matter how hard you try.
Im not a knapper, but I liked the audio as much as the video! Is this a job or hobby for you?
It's a job now. Used to be a hobby.
As a kid, Dad would take us to the Cumberland River where there was a camp site. The water was slow and shallow & I would float in an inner tube with my arms dangling in the water. There was slate everywhere and I would feel the stones & found many arrow heads that were defective in some way. I think the Native Americans would mess them up, get mad and throw them in the river.
Another place was Camp Theodosa, I think in Missouri.
They might have been shooting at fish or other river creatures.
Anyone know the stone he’s using to braise the edges to get thinner flakes?
It's not a stone. It's a piece of a large industrial grinding wheel. You can find small ones at the hardware store. The large ones are very expensive.
www.grainger.com/product/NORTON-Straight-Grinding-Wheel-Type-26ZV80
You have a ton of videos that's awsome. Do you have a video where you knap an untreated and a heat treated piece from the same rock in the same video to show the difference. Thanks. 👍🏼
I can't remember, so I'll do one of those coming up.
@@KnapperJackCraftyI don't remember ever seeing one and not AH either.
How do you get your flakes to travel so far? I generally use abo tools.
Hit very, very hard
I also find myself hitting harder with abo tools but I can also barely make a point using abo so I don’t know much about it
Need to cook some of the same stuff
👍
River bed material has been beat up from getting rolled around in floods. I don't have lots of quarries so i search the numerous local riverbeds. I find lots of flawed cracked pieces.
True
When you say raw . You mean not heat treated ?
Yes
Every time you pull out the box cutter knife to get out those fingernail step fractures my anxiety goes through the roof, they are very sharp, be careful!
Could you please send me a link of a good trusted flint supplier? I'm looking for bigger hunks at the cheapest prices if possible?? Thanks in advance and love watching you knapp
Jeff Head
Georgia Chert and Jasper
facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077372270590&mibextid=ZbWKwL
Brad Moore
Horse Creek, Hornstone, Buffalo River
facebook.com/outpostaxidermy?mibextid=ZbWKwL
Curtis Smith
Texas chert, Various stone
m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005984145744&groupid=294140764699326&eav=Afa5QGrjr_s_cRNXqNd49zqjAf33X2QPyVvZrcUtU4bEY4wyjqyPqEWbPCrUhldU9YM&ref=m_notif¬if_t=group_activity&paipv=0
Brian (Rock Wash)
Texas chert
www.etsy.com/shop/RockWash
www.ebay.com/usr/centralt0
@@KnapperJackCrafty thank you so much!!!
Does quartz need to be heat treated.
Yes, sometimes. The finer the grain, the better it responds to heat.
Thanks
@@KnapperJackCrafty
1:17:25 ☕️
I am trying to get better at making a sharp edge that is not wonky, and not un-semetritized! Got over the "turtle-back" of thining, now just need to keep it semtritized!!😂
Yes to reverse overshot.
Hehe... 😄
"Reverse overshot" sounds like a technical foul in the bedroom.
😆
Im out there in corner of my garage. I got my rock Im pounding on, another future turtle backy looking wonky biface. Every time i whack it, i say "What would Jack do?"
Hehe... 😁👍
Thing about river cobble you never know what you got till ya peel it
True
I found a nice one in San Antonio
Awesome
I just watch for the commentary anyways, lol
Great stuff brother! Stay cool it’s hot!! Very damn hot 🥵 Lol
Oh yes
👍😎👍
This stone might be "poor quality" by our standards but tough-to-knap rock (HARD) was also tough on the hunt (didn't break as easy).
I wish
🙀👍🏼🤠
1:44:22 "Put it in the freezer" ?
Yeah. There's a rumor going around in the flintknapping circle that you can soak an arrowhead in water for a while then put it in the freezer to "pop out" all those little step fractures (because water expands when it freezes). I've never tried it.
Don't u have to get it wet first, then freeze it. Yeah, do it.
You first
Ok
This is my new favorite channel
Awesome 😁