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You are cool man

You have no idea how many times I have seen this video I am arab from Arabian gulf

Just what I needed. Thank you!

Extremely concise & helpful! Thank you!

Nici

Your work is amazing. So happy to find this channel!

Great vid. Easy and simple follow instructions. About how long was the wire. It looks to be 3-4 inches. Thanks.

Como se yama tu alambre y donde lo compras buen trabajo

This is fantastic. I have an obsidian arrow head with a slight bend at the tail. I am going to wrap it just like this. Thank you for ur patience.

Pieces like this are my favorite. Is there any chance you could point me in the right direction to get some more exotic material to knap?I'd love to make one of these or something with a banded agate of some kind

wow this really suprised me. i knew that stone tools were effective because of the continued use over time but ive never seen it in use... that was a cool video thanks

As a straight razor shaver, I am impressed!

Ο μαζοχισμός είναι τρόπος ζωής για τους ψυχικά ασθενείς

Thanks Mike! Very cool. If Ivan likes it it’s good to go.

I love this video. I did a video removing the backstraps with a stone hand knife (I have since hafted it). People complained about how easy it is to remove backstraps without a knife, instead of paying attention to how easily it cut, so I did two more, cutting a roast through the vacuum bag it was in, then cutting it again after it was out of the package, just to demo how sharp stone knives are. That was a chert blade, nowhere near as sharp as the obsidian blades I make.

Flintknapper here in SW Michigan. Learned from Larry Waldron of Chadron NE when I was living in Crawford, NE. Now reside near Fennville, and would love to connect to others here in Michigan.

came for the wrapping, subscribed for the "pay attention mister" lolol. nice one

Thank you for your tutorial

Beautiful

Just what I needed....... at just the right time.

This guy is making me wince just watching him. I know just how sharp those cleaved shards of obsidian are.

Using your technique to wrap some arrowheads my dad had bought us secretly before he passed. He was going to wrap them to give to me, my husband, and my brothers on Christmas ❤️ now I'm going to do it for him and pass them out at Christmas tomorrow, so thank you for sharing!

Neat.

Clear, simple and nice looking. The best on the Net!

👍 great, I like the close up

Rest in peace

The Aztecs used that same method to make the macuahuitl. It’s said to have been sharp enough to cut a horses head clean off. Scary stuff.

Thank you o.o

How much for the ear rings

What gauge wire? Hard or soft?

sadly this didnt work for me i tried several times and wasted so much wire before i just winged it and did it my own way

Seriously where are you getting the rainbow obsidian from is it from Glass mountain Oregon or are you really down in New Mexico you should literally define that but

Awsome video🤙was the John Wayne movie Big Jake😁

How much wire are you using in ur demo???

How many mm is the wire

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That is beautiful 😍

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.Wow my friend, Ishi Flintknapping is a true art, you can say that they are precious jewels worthy of a great collection. From Baja California Sur, Mexico, your coyote friend who loves arrowheads and this art that you practice in a very special way.

Thanks Mike!

GREAT WORKMANSHIP MIKE 👍🖐😃 MIKE WHERE'D YOU FIND AN ARROWHEAD LIKE THAT PLEASE SIR? I WANT AFEW ARROWHEADS LIKE THAT PLEASE SIR? MY NEPHEW HAS A BIRTHDAY COMING UP THIS WOULD BE AN EXTREMELY AMAZING AWESOME SURPRISE FOR HIS BIRTHDAY HE'LL BE 8 Y/O

Thank you so much for this video! I’m sure watching it will help me in one of my weakest skills.

Hey Mike great videos! I see it’s been a while since you’ve posted, would love to see you back!

Practice is a big component. But ….. I still have a question and would like the benefit of your experience of how to avoid. I am pressing vertically downward. The arrowhead is beveled. Indentation and the tiniest rocking on a notching pad and “pop” off comes an ear. So, I place a piece of leather on the Notching Pad so the BASE of the arrowhead hangs over the edge of the leather suspended in air. It’s hard to get everything aligned. How to you avoid bevel rocking, depression of the point, while pressing to detach the notch flake? I guess more practice, I hope you understand the circumstance I described.

Great work as always!

Real men shave with battleaxes.

I have been knapping for years and, shame to say, have always struggled with knotching. This has helped me tremendously, thank you thank you thank you.

Thanks so much exactly what I wanted to see!

Outstanding! I guess this is how Native Iroquois shaved Mohegan and square patches on their heads.