Great demo brother. Looks like you have the basics very well. A handy tool to use is called a Bopper. Short, 6 inch or less, round stick similar to a broomstick with a weighted round copper cap. They come in various sizes and can be found in Flint Knapping Supply stores. Also pressure flaking tools are quite useful. Lots of videos about those tools and plenty of places to purchase them. Good luck my friend. Nice video.
Keep the strike of your flint vertical, as striking at an angle damages the edge, you will still get as many sparks, but your flint will last much longer. It will also give you a good surface to hold some charcloth to catch the sparks.
Nice Video! I've recently turned on to Flint n Steel... mostly because I'm a traditionalist and love the 'Old Ways' of doing things :) but also because a ferro rod will wear out far FAR quicker than a fire steel ever will. On flint knapping: I now carry a small old pin hammer with a shortened handle for splitting any bits of flint stone that I find.
I never get flint in my area here in Australia, the best I can hope for is quartzite. Thankfully it is plentiful. I don't knap my quartzite rather I spall it, so just break it up into useable pieces with a hammer and discard it when not working for me anymore.
I have seen flint knappers make stone tools at Frontier reenactments and have taken a small seminar on flint knapping. i gained some knowledge of it but not much more than what you probably know. It has been many years so i probably forgot a great deal of what i learned. one thing i recognize with flint knapping is most of the skill is learned from practice more than knowledge. what the flint knappers i knew used for striking the flint was the end of a deer leg bone or an antler. they did use striking stones as well. the small pieces of flint were once used on flintlock rifles. somehow the small piece of flint was inserted into the striking hammer of the rifle. where i used to live flint was difficult to find but chert worked well enough for flint and steel. actual flint is the best.
Great video! Very useful! Thank you! 👍
excellent , just what i was looking for. thanks.
Great demo brother. Looks like you have the basics very well. A handy tool to use is called a Bopper. Short, 6 inch or less, round stick similar to a broomstick with a weighted round copper cap. They come in various sizes and can be found in Flint Knapping Supply stores. Also pressure flaking tools are quite useful. Lots of videos about those tools and plenty of places to purchase them. Good luck my friend. Nice video.
Keep the strike of your flint vertical, as striking at an angle damages the edge, you will still get as many sparks, but your flint will last much longer. It will also give you a good surface to hold some charcloth to catch the sparks.
Nice Video!
I've recently turned on to Flint n Steel... mostly because I'm a traditionalist and love the 'Old Ways' of doing things :) but also because a ferro rod will wear out far FAR quicker than a fire steel ever will.
On flint knapping:
I now carry a small old pin hammer with a shortened handle for splitting any bits of flint stone that I find.
I never get flint in my area here in Australia, the best I can hope for is quartzite. Thankfully it is plentiful. I don't knap my quartzite rather I spall it, so just break it up into useable pieces with a hammer and discard it when not working for me anymore.
I have seen flint knappers make stone tools at Frontier reenactments and have taken a small seminar on flint knapping. i gained some knowledge of it but not much more than what you probably know. It has been many years so i probably forgot a great deal of what i learned. one thing i recognize with flint knapping is most of the skill is learned from practice more than knowledge.
what the flint knappers i knew used for striking the flint was the end of a deer leg bone or an antler. they did use striking stones as well.
the small pieces of flint were once used on flintlock rifles. somehow the small piece of flint was inserted into the striking hammer of the rifle.
where i used to live flint was difficult to find but chert worked well enough for flint and steel. actual flint is the best.