👍 nice

This was amazing

You look like James Hetfield😂

I just tried it with yucca but the plow went right through it

I love how historically accurate it is, did you base it on historical sketches?

The fire plow is hard to do. But it’s the easiest to make

Has anyone considered *scribing* an arc where you want your platform to separate? Scribing glass creates a strong preference for where the fracture initiates, and it reduces the forces needed, which may allow easier flakes from less-than-ideal platforms...

10 years later, I'm pretty much solely using this video to make a pump drill for my research project haha, thanks Jim.

Omg davinci !!?? ; )

Hey jim do you still have the jim spears blade? If so is there any way i couls get more picturs of it, specially one showing how thin it is? Very curious about jim this is the only piece of his work ive seen. 😊

Dudes holding the sharpest razorblade in the world bare handed...legend

Excelllent. Very good.

I live close to the river rhine. The selection on its shores is excellent.

It is 6 tools, not 5.

This makes me feel rather worthless haha, and I’ve been knapping for 4 months or so.

Wow… the stuff in your pile is stuff I’d have in a Display case!

It's an absolute beauty. Since I saw the video for the first time, I wanted to make my own. Mine would include carvings and I'm afrait this would take so much time I'll never do it. Nevertheless, great job!

Amazing. You didn't lose any length! I've got aways to go. Haha.

question was the sharp end put on a fungus...also do you take students

If you get pvc pipe and a dowel that is a tight fit and hammer the dowel into the pipe it will stop the wood splitting when you hammer a copper nail in it or put pressure on it

Now make one out of tick fangs

great explanation

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Thanks. Very good and well explained vid.

Great demonstration.

*I made one of these from just wood and rope and tree sap when I was about 12 years old. I used a knife, hatchet, and machete as my tools for crafting one of these. I used a heavy piece of fresh wood as the counter weight. I used dry wood for the rest of it. The fresh wood as a counter weight was still filled with moisture which made it a little heavier than dry wood but dry wood can be used as a counter weight as well. I used only materials I found out in the woods next to a river except for the rope. I split the handle and counter weight wood in half in order to create the hole in the middle for the spindle to go through. I coated the inner part that was split with sap and bound it with rope. The sap acts like glue when it dries. It also helps keep the rope in place where it's tied. The Pump Drill works really well for making fire and it's the easiest to use next to a magnifying glass and sun light. I never liked the bow drill but the pump drill is awesome.*

Holy fuck the little animals

I thank you for the video. I wish you’d have shown yourself setting up your platforms.

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Wondering if a long strip cut from a cycle inner tube might be used to bind the piece to the frame. Every turn increases the total clamping force, and the amount of force is controlled by the tension you apply to each wrap. I have never tried it, but it might give the advantage of a strong full contact all along both side edges. The loose end could be secured with a piece of tape and the whole thing be released quickly. ..... I am not a flint knapper but I have used this many, many times in gluing up awkward wood joints...... and temporary repairs to car coolant hoses ;<)

How cool is that?!

Thank you I will run from my home eheheheh😅

Seen the word “MACUAHUITL” online which i had never seen or heard B4. Obviously didn’t knw how 2 pronounce it either lol. Immediately checked Google 4 all my answers. Thankfully I found your videos, #1 & #2 🙌🏾. Very intriguing & well informed man you are 👍🏾. Thank you for your explanations & Tutorials on how to re-create one. Hope 2C BOTH U & Ur channel grow exponentially!!! A million blessings 2U my friend & #BigSalute from #Milwaukee414 -🙏🏾🫡

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Exelente trabajo

useless junk. one hit against anything and that bridle glass shit is done for.

I've been knapping for 3 years, and this is the first time I've seen an anvil used. I can think of a few times when I wish I had seen this sooner. Thanks for sharing.

My grandpa used to drill turquoise with one.. It was much smaller. Very cool.

Nice, how did I never see this video? Cool stuff

I still don’t understand the progression to Folsom points. Those full length flutes just seem unnecessary. Man how I wish we knew more about the thought process

Your a great teacher

I found hundreds of cores of various sizes on one site in Hardin County Ky.

Try doing thus exact thing under 10 xs magnification .

Beautifully done!

Is there anything else you can use for the drill tip besides what you’re using?

What a badass man and very entertainingly educational

WOW!!!

wow, nice!

Beautiful.