How to Find Flintknapping Rock, Unusual Materials, Knapping Tips +Tricks, Quartz, Primitive Survival
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- Flintknapper tips, tricks, & ancient methods for how to identify & find flintknapping rock in areas that are poor in flint or chert stone. Discover unusual flint knapping materials & rarely discussed skills of traditional flint knapping, useful for primitive survival, primitive bushcraft, and traditional stone tool making.
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Jay explores the coasts and beaches of Connecticut in New England / East Coast USA in search of workable rock and tool stone for flint knapping, while occasionally battling seagulls and hypothyroid symptoms. He demonstrates knapping skills like the bipolar technique, quartz knapping and identification, knapping quartzite, floor tile and...shell??
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Old salty good gift messing with you
"A rock is just not a ROCK!" Great job on teaching.
Vicki Indrizzo-Valente figures you would like this one. Especially the seagulls lol
I love your videos as I learn so much from them about knapping and finding material. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks ron, appreciate the comment
Glad you’re cautious around bone/shell dust. Just be careful with chert dust too. Wear a respirator if your inside or just Knap in a well ventilated area (outside for example) It’s easy to forget that silica dust is just as dangerous to your health. Silicosis is no joke!
Micah Spruth-Janssen yep yep. I never knap indoors
Never knew that thanks Micah
Absolutely ridiculous! Do you wear a respirator when taking kids to a little league game or playing baseball. Because the diamond dirt has radioactive ☢️ particles in it. Don't forget to wear your 😷
Enjoy your thumbs down 👎
use large fan,,period
This is honestly so helpful, the way you demonstrate is so much more informative than any other demo ive seen.
N Lew glad you liked it! It was fun to get out for a brief respite
Good video! It's nice to see other examples of knappble stones.
Exceptional video photographer, I hope see is highly paid!!!
David Tidwell highly paid in sushi! 🍣
Great video and demonstration of local materials that can be made into cutting tools. I use quartz and shell myself. Up around the long island sound, there is a kind of greyish quartz that is super fine grained. It was by far the most workable quartz that I've come upon so far.
The more you work it the easier it gets!
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors absolutely, also setting up good platforms help as well. One trick I found is to bake coarse grained quartz in a fire it makes it easier to flake. But that fine grained grayish quartz is the best I've worked with so far.
@@WannabeBushcrafter : Thank you for introducing this idea. How do you “bake” the stones? Is it a matter of just tossing the stones into the fire? And do you find that the stones need to be in the fire for a certain amount of time or that the fire needs to be fairly intense?
This is by far your most professional looking video yet! :-) loved it! Thanks for the teaching and showing
Micah Spruth-Janssen been a bit since we’ve been able to actually put a vid together! Glad I can do it again
Happy you’re making videos and teaching again =)
This one has some really great flintknapping tips sprinkled all throughout along with how to find flintknapping materials in places without chert
Leah McNeir wish I knew how to get more people to chime in!
This is a smart guy. I love watching smart people doing interesting things.
Thanks! Keep watching the rest of my vids lol
Just new to your channel and loving it! Happy 4th from Sweden!
Thank you! The area I live in is primarily basalt and sandstone, no flint. There is some chert but so far I've only ever find it in small pieces, so I've been looking for information on alternatives and how to identify them.
This kind of stuff takes some practice to learn, but once you do it’ll be easy enough to get arrowheads and knives out of it.
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors You briefly mentioned using basalt in the video. I've been able to get some tools from basalt just by smacking it with another rock and looking to see what flies off, but I've so far had no success with more controlled shaping. It doesn't really flake. If you have any experience with that a video on working with basalt would be helpful.
mayaknife it’s in the works.
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors Awesome! I look forward to it.
was a stonemason for many years. now days its all machines but i liked to do the hammer and chisel thing, just for my personal work and experience. found when working with stone that i new would fracture and maybe go into my eyes that you can get the knack of blinking just as you hit not as good as googles or safety glasses but works pretty well if you have none or working in places glasses/googles fog up. also on the dust thing u can wet stone to cut down on dust rather than putting it under water and on small items good old spit works quite well
This helped alot. I'm in niagara peninsula. We have some onondaga
Heat treatment can make alot of these much better for knapping, especially quartzite. I am blessed to live on the Balcones escarpment right off the Edward's plateu. Have a nice honey hole for orange, black, brown, red, and Grey high quality stuff. Still learning to Knapp myself
I have quartzite in my creekbed, but I find that stuff so darn hard to knap! Then again, I have only been knapping for a few weeks. Great video my friend!
keep at it, if you learn on quartzite you will be one of the best.
You’ve given a really good starting place. Thank you
Thank you so much man, this video is the best on the web for me, i'm really glad that i can finally watch this video and start working on my flintknapping skills, i love your videos, but for me thi is absolutely the best! Thank you so much! Great work, you are very skilled!!!
exdy 2000 figured people would like this one :)
This is the 2nd time I watched through this video. Very informative!
Glad it helped!
Great videos, keep them coming!!
David Tidwell keep commenting! It really helps my channel being found. That way I can keep making these!
After watching this video, I was motivated to go outside in my own yard,and re-evaluate my rock. I did find some orange-red rock very smooth that might be quartz-ish. Thanks for the advice!!
David Tidwell awesome dude!
Good stuff. Your efforts are appreciated.
Ha, i was immediatly thinkin... you know why you got that antler in the car!! Addicted to napping 👌
more than addicted
Thank you, you answered a question I had about shale and slate which is common where I live. Seems like a very hard material to work with.
WHOA 2016 slate can knap, just not very well.
This video is super useful, I live in Florida and I don’t really think it would be easy to find flint and I didn’t really want to spend a whole lot on materials, I’m making my own tools for it even, I just needed to find a material I can get myself so I can practice and not go broke
Kind of reminds me of home...Scotland.
Rocky beaches.
This is really helpful I watched the spear making video and want to try it out here in NE China don’t think there’s flint here so this was really helpful
I'm going chert hunting tomorrow and I just want to thank you for all the great information.
No problem, good luck man.
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors ..glad to know I shall now be dragging safety goggles along!
Always the best idea
Very interesting. I want to try knapping, but I really want to forage for materials rather than buy them.
I was very happy to hear you mention to pick up your scraps. A person could get badly cut stepping on one barefoot.
Go out and look. It’s there waiting for you.
You're on it you can make points from silicates and they look great oh and work
I been looking for good sparking flint science in the Boy Scouts 1958.
Quartz will do the trick as well!
Eye safety ! Bravo..one strike one chip,,my first of your video s...what tools do you like and why..grinders hanmers; soft hammer s ,quartsote is fun ,and tough...scrappers awls, every one does arrows , what else did they do long ago..any Arty chipping ?
Right on
Thankyou for the knowledge, chill video to watch.🙂
NP
Very practical, thanks!
thanks, this video helped a lot
Glad to hear it!
Thank you very much for making this video. I live in Louisiana and the availability of Flint is not very good. I haven’t done any knapping yet, but I plan to start, and the place I’m going to look for materials is in creeks and rivers.
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Great video! I appreciate the tips. Found the channel via Instagram.
Ohiogrown11 cool! Glad to have you here
You would make a great instructor
I’m still teaching at colleges :)
Is shell dust more dangerous than rock dust?.
David Tidwell both are very dangerous. Incurable Lung disease
Wow, I didn't know that.
Great content just what I was looking for thank you
Just found your channel - appreciate all the great info - thanks!
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awesome place ..
The Irish Wanderer Long vid again lol.
What are some Alternatives to antlers?
What do you think we should focus on next: finding flint? Flintknapping techniques? Travel, exploration? Let me know what you think! 🤔 💭. What was your favorite part or biggest takeaway from this video?
Great vid, loved the part on lithic finds being fragments that had potential use as tools. Biggest takeaway is, usefulness>aesthetics. My vote for next focus is travel/exploration seems like you and the wife have fun doing those.
Jonathan Gardner for the most part those have always been looking for flint! Lol I think we are gonna do some camping / exploration few nights in a row vids when the weather is a bit nicer. We need a new tent I destroyed the last one lmao
I think that will be great! Although I just love the flint subject.
Puerto Rico USA
All one at a time?
You might try demonstrating how to get the most cutting edge out of a piece of found stone.
Love this!
Vision Quest Outdoors: Tyvm 4 some answers, as well as a little vocabulary With which to work.
About those glacial stones that are uniquely at the shoreline; I find it strange that a glacier would leave those stones at the Waters edge, and possibly in the harbor, but that we don’t see any on the surrounding landscape. It’s somebody who’s seen a lot of North Atlantic storms, I suggest that those huge boulders have been heaved up there by the sea. There are certain coves that you can visit, to observe the difference before and after a huge storm. The beach itself is transformed to the point where you wouldn’t recognize it. In our area, there are times the roads have to be closed because huge boulders get tossed up over the seawall by the sea, utterly blocking the roadway. Overtime, and not a whole lot of that, sometimes they batter down sections of seawall.
Washed to shoreline from erosion.
what better way to watch than with 3 venison steaks chips onions and pepper sauce i was interrupted yesterday when watching the majority of this i have tried ive yet to go to a beach but i do knapp whats around theres some nice gritty rocks that knapp well and very when cooked .
The Irish Wanderer wish I had some venison!
Thnxs for uploading and sharing this info
Always learn something new !! #FlintknappingTips
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281 Covfefe hope ya liked it!
I have huge amounts of quarts in my area. Also I’m finding points made of quarts. Large what believe are spear points and smaller points. I’ve tried to knapp the local quartz. Failed miserably
If all else fails you can use beer bottles, old broken plates and mugs etc
Thats what I started on, however since I USE the stone tools, glass and ceramics, obsidian.... do not last long. Chert does! Flint does!
Allot of people don't know this
Glass might be more effective if you ask me
Some of the stuff you are looking at would work best for Oldowan style use. That is you just knock off sharp flakes from the core you can use to cut with and don't get fancy. Either that or you might try heat treating them.
I always try and get fancy
Not sure where in CT you were looking, but I suggest Harkness Park in Waterford and Bluff Point in Groton.
Good luck with your search.
Whats at harkness? or bluff point?
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors the beaches at both are covered in all sorts of rocky materials brought in by the tides. Neither of those places has a “sandy” beach.
How would a good piece of quartzite work as a gunflint, or firestarter?
It works, not as good as flint..... but it does spark ⚡️
I do alot of tile work and constantly have a ton of scrap,any thoughts of using tile as a routine source? Maybe porcelain as opposed to ceramic? Toilets are always getting tossed and i would imagine that since the toilet top and tank are flat and square it would probably be a good resource? Thoughts?
Jay T toilet tops work! For sure! Give it a try
I've seen it called Johnstone...it's Goode for beginners..jack crafty has a vid..vitrious , behaves like glass, cuts alot-as in you bleed...perhaps collect the tinted tiles reds and blues an whites..bundle an sell as starter kits...
Will these rocks that you are pointing out, rocks good for flintknapping, also work for sparking on firesteel?
Yes they will! I start fires with them all the time
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors Thanks for replying 😊
Thank you sir
No problem!
Ima go to petsmart for a bit of antler i saw em there as chew toys
I got a good caribou antler at pets mart!
I'm thinking the Seneca, etc, used it up on arrowheads and tomahawks back when.
probably
good stuff
Thanks!
Perfect! In NY, so Dololmite .... lots of dolomite...
Any high quality? Where?
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors I was hoping you'd had had to work with it. I'm not sure but we brought lots back from a quarry and Herkimer diamond claim. It really doesn't like opening up. Hard as a... Rock I guess.
@@purduephotog Jason ,sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings , rock is often / allways. , Hard as a rock...btw there's tough and brittle..want razor edge stick to brittle stock
@@garymingy8671 Ahhh, Dolomite is a special kinda of ... pain. It typically just looks at you funny when you hit it with anything. :) Not that I'm into personification or anything...
I have heard that flints that have been exposed to frost cannot be used for knapping. I cannot find anywhere online that confirms this statement though.
You can use them, they are just really difficult and damaged..... takes a lot of patience to remove the ruined material
Heat treat them allow to cool slowly then reheat cool slowly again 2 or three times is all you need.
One very good knapper is " freeze cracked"...I don't remember him chatting about it. Ask him in the comments of his latest video , rock degrades slowly , beware ,then try to strike off the damaged part ,early if not first , ...you want relible..and comming in the door you got doupts...
Forgot to mention I’m in SC
And please dont forget to take the knapping stone trash/ flakes with you, otherwise u might confuse some archeologists in the future.
Nothing here in New Hampsha. ..
I’ve collected some in New Hampshire
awesome video, but your audio levels are a little wonky. The music you put in for transitions is really nice but compared to your voice it is VERY loud.
Sorry about that
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors no worries! I just wanted to let you know. :> Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!
can you do knapping with acrylic sheets?
I’ve never tried it. Let me know if it flakes
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors im just thinking about cheap things i can buy or even using glass because im in a wheelchair and can't go to beaches to find these things
I hear tell flint can be found as nodules in limestone deposits... your comment?
Yes
Best flirting video awesome video
Thanks
I heard somewhere you can knapp porcelain , so old china dishes and old toilets should work , there's probably old time porcelain sinks at a junkyard. but I don't know, maybe you can't make anything from it.
I knap some porcelain in this video i believe
Has anyone ever told you that you sound like hiccup from how to train your dragon?
My wife calls seagulls flying rats. Well they do terd everywhere.
Do you have a video on finding hammer stones?
Devin M. Not yet but I can incorporate that into a video soon.
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors that would be great, thanks.
nice
Thanks bud
funnily enough these rocks are always on people's driveways.
The resistance of a grainy stone would be horrible as an arrowhead. Hope you find larger quartz
You would be surprised how effective even thick ones are in hunting.
I am so interested in knapping, but I don't know where to start. Can you pls direct me? I do alot of kayaking and magnet fishing, so i have access to the material, but I need a starting point, like names of tool's, technique, and what tools to use.
How to make your own flint knapping gear TOOL kit!
czcams.com/video/mfYRzlEeJoQ/video.html
Start at this video, check out huntprimitive on CZcams as well he has a beginners video
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors awesome! Thank you very much bro!!!
The one that pooped on the car looks tasty
flint me up baby!
:)
I guess you should have fed him
It’s a cat
I respext you man, I'd respect you more if you would have thrown away the shotgun shell and plastic. But your doing cool stuff man., keep it up.
I usually do pick up all trash. I go on a rant about it in another vid
Next stone lol
Hah
there is 0 knappable stones in maryland. Quartz is here but its not great to knap.
The ancients in maryland had trouble as well! There is jasper source buts it’s deep under water now
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors yea. and the states around me there is nothing much too. pa. as some. and wv. has some chert i think. You can knap quortz but its super hard. and im not that good.
The only difference between Quartz, Quartzite and Flint/Chert is the crypto-crystalline makeup of each stone, Flint being super fine grained silica which is a fancy way of saying Quartz Sand. Really disagree with you on these materials not working or even looking the same, when almost all of my locally sourced material is Quartzite and can be made into even better knapping stone than anyone would ever care to imagine with just a little bit of heat treat.. Just my two cents and I don't mean to seem like Mr. Knowitall, but I am when it comes to these three types of rocks lol P.S. a "grinding" stone or abrading stone is useless for pressure flaking my man, it's used on big spalls to round off weak edges and drive longer thinner flakes, no sense in dulling a point before micro-flaking to make it sharper
I literally said these work fine for flint Knapping
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