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That is a beautiful point,it takes skill and patience to create that kind of work.

That is one beautiful point, Tim.

Jim tried to teach me how to do that but I had no machines at the time. Sure miss the guy! He was a good friend! I recently picked it up again and am slowly recalling some of his instructions. Everything your doing seems very similar to his style of knapping. I have another friend teaching me now but he dont do the crunching style. He flakes a flat preform then grinds it completely over and then does a second final pass. Jim used to just whack off anything he didnt want with a trim saw then grind it to shape then one pass flake to finish in the same way you are doing. Im trying to learn exactly the way my teacher tells me then if I ever get proficient then ill adjust accordingly. Sure is fun tho! Thx for the video! Brought back some memories!

Just a beautiful piece of work. 👍👍😎

Flawless

Nice.

In Australia the aboriginal people's sometimes knapped glass telegraph wire insulators. The linemen got tired of the lines being cut and insulators taken that spare insulators were left on ground. There is an example of an aqua blue Ishi point he knapped from an insulator I saw online. The insulator must have been split down middle and point made from the sidewall? I attempted once to chip a vintage blue-green insulator with poor results. The glass is very brittle! If you cut an insulator down middle with tile saw into two halves you could demonstrate an Ishi point. Wonder if indigenous people's scored the rounded top of insulators and struck indirect percussion to split for at least one usable half? Thank you and enjoying your videos. :)

Pre-dynastic Egyptian Gertzian ceremonial blades and Danish "Hindsgavl" flint dagger style blanks were ground and polished smooth before rippled flaked. The Egyptian blades were only flaked on one side. Also modern recreation of the Gertzian blades its thought a wood vise and lever pressure flaker might have been used. The parallel flakes are driven all the way across blade.

New sub here, have been getting more into flint/obsidian working videos; have found them to be very ASMR-esque. Found your working technique to be quite interesting. Hoping your channel grows like a weed. Best wishes.

I didn't know u made videos my game is going Advanced for sure my brother i always admire ur fb post brother

I would love to see some agate action

Where are you getting a preform like that?

Where are you getting a preform like that?

Tim this is Norm. I can learn more from you in 10 mins of personal instruction, then I can by watching CZcams knappers for a year. Thank you for all your time spent on me to make my work a 100 percent better over these last several years!!

Ok, looks good so that's FOG

Nice job😊

So cool to see a master in a craft at work. thanks for documenting and sharing.

master at work

My "Sticky sharp & Too thin" Mr. Mullin! Love it!

Very cool!! A bit easier way then Hoppers method I think even tho very similar.

Beautiiful work Tim. Great demonstration of the FOG technique. Torch bearer man.

谢谢老师分享教学

Why arent you explaining in detail the proper exact way to flake FOG points ?

I'm very grateful to you for going to the trouble of making this great video of the entire process Tim. I look forward to trying to put some of your top advice into practice. Thankyou from your student in Australia 👍

Great solid technique

Zoom in

Excellent

That’s sweet

I see a few good platforms

Not a fan of FOG. It looks too perfect. I appreciate the art form but the results are artificial looking.

Hi what is the type of material your working ?

Where can I get a pressure flaker like the one your using ?

Would like to see a video of one like that being made!

Yep that helped. Now i just have to implement it properly. Thanks for the videos

We gotta get Liz to do camera work for you and zoom in 😉

👍

Your work is one of the best I've seen, thank you for the insight.

Enjoyed the video very much. Thanks for the tutorial.

So glad I found this video, it helps immensely!! Can’t wait to try to flake upward, I’ve always flaked down.

Tim, what was the diameter of the copper rod in your cruncher?

Nice rock 😉🤣

Did I hear “thousandth’s” are you a machinist? would not surprise me. I think Flint napping would be an attractive hobby for most machinist.

Niiiiiice 😉👍

Great video Tim, I have been teaching this method for over 20 years now. My holding style is different than yours but the results are the same. I learned it from reading Ishi in two worlds and Don Crabtree. At first I used flakes to practices on until I was confident enough to work on points. As you already know once you get it your notching will be outstanding. I measure my entries with feeler gauges and the smallest to date is .017 thousandths of a inch, yes it takes a lot of patients and care but in the end it is well worth it, all they have to do is look at your points to see the results of the passion you put into them. Thank you for another great video-John Siderio.

Very nice video Tim, I do not do any FOG work but for those that do or may want to this video is priceless. It not only shows the technical aspect of the flaking process but the patients and passion needed to produce beautiful points like this and all the others you make. I have been teaching flint knapping for over 23 years and I never get tire of viewing good videos like yours. Hopefully in a future video you can show the entire grinding process and some tips for those who may be new to our craft. Great job and thank you for posting such an informative video. John Siderio

Beautiful material and point, great job!

Happy to connect with you and your videos! We can never stop learning for sure. I can see that I'm lacking in my tool maintenance when I see how diligent you are with yours. But that's what it takes for perfection!

This was the best advice you gave me at the knapin Tim! Was very glad to watch this again, it will help tremendously! Thanks amigo!

Woof, woof, woof, it is incredibly beautiful, incredible my friend. You are the best of carvers. Greetings from your coyote friend, as I don't know how to make them, I look for them in the desert, but they are not so beautiful. Although any tip, no matter how rustic, is beautiful.

awesome rock