#1 Notching an excentric

[@jaeger-sammler]

Thank you for documenting your skills, for future flint knappers. 👍

[@lithicprehistory3187]

My pleasure!

[@paulsmithprimitivebushcraft]

Good to see you working your magic! You make it look easy! 😉🤜🏻

[@lithicprehistory3187]

Thanks mate!

[@charlesmckinney3560]

You make it look effortless, almost as if you were notching plaster ha, I would have stalled out halfway through.

[@lithicprehistory3187]

Ahaha well I stalled for a long time, but once you get the right way for you to do it, then everything should come along nicely! These wide notches are far more easy than narrow one!

[@richardwiley5933]

Novice here. What type of blade is notched in the center as is this one?

[@lithicprehistory3187]

Well mayan eccentrics are, but there are multiple notches, I just recorded one, but the blade ended being notched 5 times.

[@richardwiley5933]

@@lithicprehistory3187 Thanks - beautiful work on this one.

[@hommedecromagnon2765]

Si tu travaillais de l’obsidienne, tu utiliserais la même pointe en acier ? Ou du cuivre ?

[@lithicprehistory3187]

Très probablement la même pointe. Mais je n'utilise presque jamais de l'obsidienne...cependant le cuivre fonctionnerait probablement très bien aussi, même avec du silex.

[@hommedecromagnon2765]

@@lithicprehistory3187 j’ai des difficultés pour trouver des silex non gélifiés et je trouve l’obsidienne magnifique.

[@lithicprehistory3187]

@@hommedecromagnon2765 c'est vrai que c'est beau surtout l'arc-en-ciel. Personnellement j'achète mon silex aux états-unis (sur internet), mais j'en trouve également en Normandie, et il y en a un peu partout en France, il suffit de bien chercher.

[@hommedecromagnon2765]

@@lithicprehistory3187 j’habite en Normandie. J’ai trouvé du silex performant (pour moi à Vernon) mais avec les interdictions des zones d’accès c’est difficile maintenant.

[@aurelienburlot6261]

Great 👍

[@lithicprehistory3187]

Thank you!

[@missourimongoose8858]

I've been getting into knapping just by finding flakes to work when I'm arrowhead hunting around what we call the Indian bluffs because it has a bunch of 1000 year old paintings from the mississippians on it, vid on my channel if anyone would like to see

[@alphamale3643]

Using modern tools to make stone age weapons is not how that works...

[@matthewjacobs5507]

Interesting take. Why not? If he was doing a literal demonstration on primitive tool making I could understand the issue but if he’s making art for sale or art’s sake why not use the fasted most expedient tools available?