1487 - Tallahatta Quartzite Flintknapping

[@jjviola2378]

You can heat it, I have heated it to 550 degrees and it will turn a pinkish color and works great. I have also water treated it and that does well too. I have knapped tons of it and everything from fine bird points to very large blades. I watch and enjoy all your videos. Thank you and keep up the good work. That does not look like it was heated to me but raw.

[@mikemason4758]

I tried to look up water treating just now. Not sure what that is. Can I get any info?

[@j.shorter4716]

@@mikemason4758 you store your raw rocks in water to keep the moisture in them. I think it might work better on tough stone not sure. Doesn’t work on obsidian either. Anyway it’s supposed to knap better.

[@jjviola2378]

@@mikemason4758 It is the method of soaking your spalls and bifaces in water, the water soaks into the pores of the material and acts like hydraulics to assist in the flake removals. As the rock you are working on dries out you put it back in the water to rehydrate. Some material need long soaking times and some short, all depends on the material type and how porous it is. Fresh quarried rock is so much easier to work than dried out rock because of the water still in the rock so soaking dry or porous rocks aides in the knapping process. Hope this helps-John Siderio

[@mikemason4758]

@@jjviola2378 I would have never thought about that idea after hearing about heat treating, is it a mater of granulation, again haven’t found much info, or other factors that help determine when this practice is best used?

[@johnmcclelndon7641]

Knap and arrowhead out of a salt lick for deer hunting. When the deer tries to lick the arrowhead you let him have it

[@smolzillamakes]

I like to pick up rocks that look like they have knap-ability and i just picked up a rock that looks EXACTLY like this! I was running flakes on it and thinking it was very interesting because it wasn't a super fine grain like you usually want. Yet it was producing flakes twice as long as wide!

[@KnapperJackCrafty]

Very cool

[@miguelbinha]

Me and my boys put some quartz in the heating stove till they got glowing red, then put them on cold water. They disolve in crackly bitty dust. Mom was not happy.

[@KnapperJackCrafty]

Crackly bitty dust. Yup. But I use a hammer. 😁

[@miguelbinha]

@@KnapperJackCrafty eheh

[@robertcarmansr.204]

Ive got some n.j cohansey Quartzsite same stuff but its got fossils in it .need to heat it to 450 500"and its still not easy

[@maytagmark2171]

@@robertcarmansr.204 So try heat treat then water soak after?

[@Tradbow85]

Just bought a lfr box last week, can't wait to work some.

[@KnapperJackCrafty]

Where'd you get it?

[@RedEyedPatriot]

When you sat that one to the side I knew you'd knap it first. I got some Real Relics made from TQ from PineBeltRelics 3k sub giveaway couple years back. Cool stuff Man. 😎🏹🤙

[@ronaldcarbonneau77]

The point looks very authentic in my opinion. Something like you would find. Really nice.

[@johnmcclelndon7641]

Great job with difficult material

[@KnapperJackCrafty]

Thanks

[@maytagmark2171]

I got your quartzite like points from video #1478 Very happy with them. They have a bit of a ring to them.

[@KnapperJackCrafty]

Glad to hear it. 😁

[@johnsmalldridge6356]

Tallahatta looks amazing.

[@KnapperJackCrafty]

Yeah, it's interesting stuff.

[@choccolocco]

Cool stone, found a couple of relics made from it. It’s an interesting stone. Never saw any raw, but we’ve got plenty of “regular” quartzite, definitely my nemesis as far as knapping goes. I actually got better results when I soaked some in water.

[@KnapperJackCrafty]

Hmmm

[@petepeterson4540]

hmmmm too

[@panzerlieb]

Yeah hmmm

[@TonyWilliams-d4w]

Do thr barb tip last.

[@the11kaj]

This looks a bit like some types of Swan River Chert.

[@KnapperJackCrafty]

Interesting

[@ronaldcarbonneau77]

Kinda looks like granite. I heated some granite in my fire pit and now I'm going to have to try knapping it. Just to see if it works. Will see. You made that look easy. I'm sure it isn't though.👍

[@KnapperJackCrafty]

Granite will make you beg for mercy.

[@evanernst3950]

Could you please make a Snyder’s point please

[@KnapperJackCrafty]

Ok

[@evanernst3950]

@@KnapperJackCrafty thank you

[@petepeterson4540]

Keep it thick it's quartzite

[@ZAPADOR-1986]

Sr jack, es acero o aluminio lo que usa para la perxusión indirecta? No consigo resultado con el acero que uso, creo que es demasiado grueso, pero al ser tan extremadamente dura la cuarcita no sé que usar. Principalmente solo puedo tallar este material en crudo porque es lo unico que abunda en mi zona. Saludos y gracias por su tiempo.

[@KnapperJackCrafty]

I use aluminum and steel. I use whatever works. Quartzite is extremely difficult to knap.

[@ZAPADOR-1986]

Totalmente de acuerdo. Hace unos 20 años mi padre me descubrió este mundo aunque retomé esto hace unos 2 meses, odio las redes sociales pero gracias a usted consumo mis horas de aprendizaje junto a usted. He tallado muy poco silex y estaba entrando en un circulo de desesperación con la cuarcita, empecé probando cobre y lo machaqué literalmente. Actualmente uso un martillo de 800gr, otro de 250gr y un pequeño hammerstone. Estoy esperando que me llegue el aluminio en 40 mm y buscaré varillas de 1mm hacia abajo para probar nuevas herramientas indirectas, espero conseguirlo. Gracias jack por su ayuda, lo considero mi gran maestro en esta disciplina y disfruto mucho de sus reflexiones, es un gran maestro, saludos desde España.

[@thestrugglingknapper]

Too tough for me.

[@senkuu_ishigamii]

20:15 stone installed anticheat

[@KnapperJackCrafty]

Naaasty stones'es