From Flake to Projectile - Flintknapping 101
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Flake to Projectile is a basic and easy practice to learn. Focus on a clean flake, with no shine in the interior, and a decent thickness. The results will vary in time and in practice, but this is a first target projectile to build
Don't start your flintknapping journey aiming for large axes and spear heads. Start small and start with the basics. That is what is covered in this video. More to come
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Thanks for showing the process! Ever since Shawn Woods stopped flintknapping and turned to mouse traps, there has been a void on youtube waiting to be filled. And it seems like you are just doing that! Awesome videos! Easy to understand, no fancy editing, no music, no rushed and fast cuts. Thank you very much again!
I appreciate it. Thanks so very much. I try to keep it pretty simple. I’m not the best editor. I just film what I knapp! Thanks again.
Ryan gill on hunt primitive has some good videos if you want to check him out too
gregpyrohomestead has 2-3 really baby-level videos for flint knapping
you can check em out too if you like
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Here's one- czcams.com/video/e-MnuUDyDzE/video.html
Ryan gil
Very good and look forward to every video you make. Thanks from WV
I have been knapping for six years. I have watched probably every video on this topic. I still watch everything I can find on knapping. This video is the best how to flint Knapp video I have ever seen. I will be sharing this to anyone that ask me how to flint knapp from here on. Excellent job.
being able to teach someone else how to do something is the highest form of mastery
Appreciate that. I don’t consider myself a master, but rather a master of dedication. I’ve dedicated my life to Knapping…I like the forever student approach. Thanks.
@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks You should really give heat treatment a try, it really changed my game up, it makes working with the stone so much easier. I just haven't been able to find that sweet spot or perfect technique for primitive heating of the stone. Also it really makes the finished product much more beautiful and shiny.
@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks I’d consider you a master of your craft, I’ve definitely never came across anyone else who can do what you do with such a level of precision and skill.
Thanks donny I just started just what I needed
Awesome. Happy to help. Flake to projectile point is key.
Please continue to make these longer videos. Incredibly informative and very important knowledge.
I love these videos where you’re talking and walking us through the process. Thanks!
My pleasure. Thanks for watching!
Just started my flint knapping journey and your videos are some of the best.
Awesome video, thanks for taking the time to show us
This video is so good. I’ve always grown up searching for arrowheads and resharpening the edges with other rocks. I’ve finally become strong enough to actually make one of my own. Thanks Donny 👍
This is one of the best tutorial napping videos I've seen and I've seen a lot thanks for the content
May donny dust have prosperity, happiness, and fulfillment for the rest of his days.
I’m really happy, so today I watched your video and proceeded to make my first ever arrowhead! I’m very glad I clicked on your channel
Thank you so much! This helped me understand and I was able to make my first decent point from a flake of georgetown. You have definitely gained a fan.
Thanks for this video. Huge help with understanding the process better. Really love your videos.
A great video for someone jst starting out. You explain things well. Thanx
I was the one who requested this vid a while back, so thank you very very very much for taking the time to make a video! It helps a lot!
I underestimated how much pressure flaking is used for making a point. Something I've never tried but I want to start this summer. Thanks for these videos!
Phenomenal instructions.
That's the best way that I have ever been shown to Knapp stone excellent video great content thank you for sharing five stars brother
Appreciate that greatly. I try my best and hope deliver more videos in the future. Thanks again.
Really appreciate watching your thumbs up video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.
Awesome semper fi donny 🦅🌎⚓️
Semper Fi!!! Thanks for watching bro.
excellent...I started knapping 40 years ago when there was hardly anyone into it, and almost no information accessible - and I was laughed at....LOL...now it's like a smorgasbord....love it
That’s awesome. Hell, 15 years ago there wasn’t much. With the invention of CZcams we will never be short on information about Knapping.
@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks very true. Some people have totally mastered knapping in a short time - the same with bow making. When I started bow making, there were only a few books available, like the Mason book... and one claim to my fame - I got some college students into atlatl throwing, they now have a team and are competing....
nevwr be ashamed. screw the laughers. its people like you i look up to the most. youre connected with our roots still. where we started. you stay in touch with natural resources and the primal ways that kept us alive before modern ammenedies came along. what im trying to say is, if the world ends, youl be prepared to adapt. most people will go ape shit killing eachother over whats left because all they know are grocery stores and ac equipped homes with ovens and gas stoves. its sad. i wish to extend my knowledge and skill on these crafts but im unfortunatly an apartment dweller trying realy hard to obtain a house and some land to finaly dive into it all. bushcraft, slingshot building, all of it. for now im s.o.l and cant do much. im in a city area with no woods. its the worst. best i can do is study this stuff like right now on this here video. but im dying to physicly start so bad. for years now i have. one day
You are the Santa of flintknapping
I've started acquiring all the resources I need to start flint knapping. Thank you for all the tips and know how Donny! I can't wait to get started and learn a rare craft.
Solid video! Extremely helpful for me as an archaeologist trying to learn knapping
Such thorough explanation 👊🏼
This is a Huge help. Learned a ton, thank you.
Thanks for this content! I got into flintknapping because of your videos, and I have been enjoying teaching and being taught it! Thanks for the video, keep on rockin!
Thank you for the valuable information sir. Have a good day :)
Thank You Donnie !
No worries and my pleasure. Thanks for watching.
thanks for posting. I'm new to knapping and have watched so many videos, you broke it down exactly how to tackle ridges and how to straighten out the curves. I've wasted so many flakes because I had no clue how to accomplish this. thanks for the information.
I enjoy watching your videos but man they are way to relaxing especially when your in the stone room just the sound of pressure flaking is so relaxing I almost fall asleep and end up watching your video multiple times some times
Awesome. FLINTKNAPPING is relaxing in every way. Appreciate you watching and following the adventures.
Love the video! Thank you for making something that seems so complicated and inaccessible to a step by step Science. Your videos and tik toks are always great to see! Also your editing style is perfect for the educational style videos you're trying to output!
I really hope to see your channel grow! Can't wait to see whats in store for the future!
Really enjoyed the video. Helped me a lot. Thanks Terry
This is a great tutorial Donny.
You're a good teacher, and I enjoy watching your videos.
This is like genuinely the most interesting thing I can find atm
Thanks. Appreciate you watching and following the adventures. Much respect.
Wow! I've never understood the fundamentals of knapping so well dude. Such a dude as always D! Such a good teacher bro. 🙏🏼💜🤙🏽👊🏼😎
Donny this was AWESOME thank you! You're a gifted teacher.
Excellent teaching....Thanks.....I am your newest subscriber
Incredible work. 🏆🏆🏆
Great instructional video. I have thought about starting to knap arrow heads, but in my local area here in Finland there are not much good stone. Quartz might be viable, and to my understanding quartz arrow heads are found here. Very cool looking hobby, and i have moose antler i can maybe turn in to tools for this
You can buy some from Sweden. I know the guy who sells Danish flint. He can send it to you... He is also knapping and he's very good at it. I can connect you if you are interested... Just let me know.
Great video Donnie, you are a very good teacher. Everything you said just clicked, it was so easy to understand. Now I just got to get out in the bush and find a stone. Unfortunately there’s mostly granite here.
Whoooo it's here!
More coming soon. Thanks for watching Amigo.
I’d like to see more detail on platform preparation required to straitened out a curve and then the actual straightening process. Great video.
I am the beginner and struggling with a pressure flaking but this is the best explanation yet, what I saw... Thank you Donny.
Greetings from Norway. 🤙
My pleasure. Use them legs…it makes a huge difference. Copper or antlers…doesn’t matter, get up on it, use them legs and pop those flakes.
ive been knapping for a little over a decade and the biggest thing i can say for pressure flaking, is when you push into your potential point, youll feel a brief moment where the tool forms to the flint, then a flake is drawn off. this gives you a good basis for "feeling the energy" being channeled through the piece.
Good luck!
Thank's guys, appreciate your advices.
And, yeah, Donny, I prefer antlers because I want that feeling of how they did it back in the time. That draws me into flint knapping... 😊🤙
@@stoneknapper2177 they too used copper. They had copper points, knives, jewelry, flintknapping tools, you name it.
Of course much less common, as copper working wasn't really widespread, due to lack of known ore, extraction, and working techniques.
@@Onemoarblockplz To be more precise, I meant the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages, the Old and New Stone Ages, when only stones and antlers were used, at least in Europe. 🙂
Fascinating. Great video mate
YES donny, thank you so much for faming a lost art- Could you show people how to make eroded style stone tools, like chisels, sandstone axes, and such. in a landscape without basalt, or chert- its hard to understand how tools can be made. if you have the knowledge, please demonstrate it in your demonstrative, and cool manner.
PS: a neat thing for you to look into would be Shredded Wheat+ Straight arrow. Straight arrow is a promotional card, like baseball cards. but they teach you stoneworking, flintknapping, whittling, firestarting and all sorts of other neat things.
Great video now I want a peanut butter sandwich 🥪 and the skill too process stone into useful tools
Haha. Awesome. Peanut butter sandwiches are one of my favorites. Thanks for watching.
Awesome work Donny.
I follow both Gill from hunt primitive and Jack crafty.. both are great teachers but can be very wordy and it's easy to get overwhelmed with information. I like the way you teach and look forward too future videos like this one!
I used to be into the primitive arts a few years back, knapping and bowmaking. But like most things life got in the way. But ever since I started arching high on Instagram and now here you’ve invigorated my primal spirit and I can’t wait to get back into it on my next day off. Keep it ip brother!
It's very relaxing and interesting to watch you work. I wouldn't mind trying it myself but I have a bad habit of jumping from one hobby to another, especially when I get frustrated.
Thanks for the video you inspired me to give it a try thanks to watching ur TikToks 🤠
Please Mr Dust more
Content like this and the buffalo cid . Your long content vids are fantastic shorts too and Sir I’d love to buy your tools .
Will do. I have some videos in pipeline. I try to keep them around 8-10 minutes. That’s the goal.
Wow, this is unspeakable amazing. I appreciate that is someone who teach others how to use our true adaptation given by evolution. Creativity of making tools out from just rocks and wood. I'm sure that I will try to improve my skills. You are inspiration🔥
thanks for this video ! i love it !
Thank you for making this in-depth video
I like to remove the shine as well, but in a different manner, I remove it one small glass at a time 😅, great tutorial.
Love your shorts they are like ASMR
Awesome. More coming soon. Thanks for watching.
I teach people to use the heavy bottoms of glass bottles to make points, working from processed glass, to obsidian, chert, quartzite etc, but plain ol' glass, even extra thick sheet glass, makes it easy to se how one's strikes affect the material. It's way sharper, but, I taught my self knapping this way.
Awesome. I’ve knapped glass about three times. Never had a desire to get into Knapping glass. I typically teach to stay away from obsidian and glass. It’s not a good stone to learn from and does not, in anyway shape or form replicate most of the stone in the world that is best for Knapping. Thanks for watching.
good call. I have a thing against newbies using rare material and screwing it up. The earth no longer makes the good stuff.
@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks I'd would disagree, but, my experience and yours, are going to be different. I've made beautiful, functional pieces out of old glass, and obsidian, but in the very beginning, for me, even with the availability of good flint around me, I found it easier to learn pressure and strike knapping on glass, and, the material is available, easily, all over Babylon, so, there is that.
@@lawrencelymanii6943 absolutely. I call it knappers preference. It’s all the same seed that is planted, we just water them differently.
Cool
Mesmerizing
Pretty cool stuff, I might try my hand at flintnapping. I have always used traditional and modern archery equipment but never explored the primitive aspect of archery. Nice video and thanks for the inspiration.🏹🤙🏼
pefect teaching tank you
I've been watching this channel for a long time but just recently subscribed. I feel I'm ready to go back to Stone Age. 🤔
I really appreciate what you do man its awesome! Your work if great
I am ten minutes in and it's really useful
Thanks. Hope you enjoy and appreciate you watching.
@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks yeah i want to try flintnapping after watching this but sadly there is no place where I can find them in my city
@@zaimozairc use glass... plenty of videos on using bottle glass, or corning-ware, or old toilet bowls
@@Sheepdog1314 oh ok I will thanks
Tried my first one that I didn't preform on the cabbing machine yesterday with surprising results. I think it is Dacite but it might be a heat treated basalt, not sure.
Man I really need to learn all these skills, hunting, making my own tools, growing vegetables, with the third world war approaching it becomes essential
I’ve always wondered what you could do with a handful of the small pieces and a sling.
Man, I wish there were chunks of flint like that around here. Always wanted to learn. No flint.
Just started experimenting with Knapping today. I have yet to be able to figure out how to get those thin flakes consistently. Hopefully this video will be of help.
Two minutes in and I was ready to eat that rock lol
Hell yeah
Can you show how to make the arrows? Wood selection & processing it?
Or have I missed it in the list
That video is coming soon!!!
Is there any chance that you do a video on how to make a neolithic bow and arrow. From harvest to finished product?
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Interessante que parece "fácil" esculpir. Mas falta tudo prá mim, ferramentas, material e principalmente a habilidade de muitos anos.... Desde Limeira SP. BR. Parabéns pelo desempenho...
Gotta say the hardest part for me has been foraging for chert, as there’s essentially none naturally occurring where I live, only whatever could’ve been brought into the area by the aboriginal peoples
Donny how do you find/obtain rocks like this? Or what types should I look for?
Making flake is like gatcha it seems
I can't tell if this man is 25 or 65. Hope I age that well. Must be something in the rocks.
Haha. I’m 43. Beard says 65, body says 35, mind of a 22 year old. Haha. Thanks for watching.
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So I want to get into flintknapping but I've no idea how to find and identify the type of stone needed. Do you have a video on identifying what is needed or can you make a detailed video on the subject? In my immediate environment I don't have any stone sources so I will have to go searching.
Go abo!
What is the name you have for the little peices leftover,
Hey sir would really like to know what you would use to make cutting tools in a Southern state where rocks are not as common.
Could you please show us how to make a primitive quiver
As well as how to properly shoot with a bow and arrow
If you find an arrowhead, can you tell if it was made 10 years ago or 1000 years ago
What can we use in a survival situation when we dont have antler or copper?
Hey there. I was wondering what type of material is the best/easiest to start learning to knapp with? Thanks.
New subscriber here. How did you turn into a modern day flintknapper ? Have you ever worked in the field of Paleontology, specifically Paleolithic's ? I ask because as we speak there are many, sometimes virulent "fights" amongst the various Ph.D. Personalities concerning certain lithic artifacts,
but none of these Personalities can actually knap stone, or obsidian.
One of the biggest "fights" concerns the Solutrean lithic tools from ~20,000 years ago, in Spain and France, and some similar types found along the Atlantic Coast here in the U.S.A. Dr. Stanford from the Smithsonian sees a direct connection, others do not see the connection. I wonder what would be your opinion, not from seeing pictures of the tools, but from actually holding them so you can see and feel the manufacturing process ?
Another big "fight" concerns lithic "tools" from the pre-Clovis layer at the Topper Site there on the Savannah River in South Carolina, which Dr. Albert Goodyear has been excavating for at least 20 years now....
I could go on.....Meadowcroft Rockshelter, Hell Gap....and more.
I'd like to see you make a Solutrean blade, like one from Europe, and one from the State of Virginia. You would know if the manufacturing process was at least similar, if not exactly the same. In pictures both do look the same, but was the technique the same ?
Anyway, your lessons brighten my day.
Can you do something with amber ?
Safety glasses aren't nearly as cool as an eye patch and a dust mask might not be a bad idea either for the silica.
I’m good. I have a fan, and don’t hit the stone into my face.
Gunpowder and Chinese hand cannon
Can you make a bola
Can you make Karambit?
What's your favorite thing to make?
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