How to Make Knapping Tools

[@pyrosketcher1490]

Great information, very helpful. Please make more knapping videos!

[@CaptMike]

Thanks for watching!

[@michael5825]

I cant believe i just found your vids but im glad i did you are a gifted teacher sir and we look forward to binging on your vids and living our knapping dreams vicariously through you. I have to ask and waste your time sir but we are recovering from a total loss uninsured fire and most all materials and tools are a loss. My 14 year old girl has been knapping with me for 5 years now. Is there a classifieds type market on materials and maybe used tools? Every penny is being pinched right now but i dont want my girls interest to be lost due to me. She loves the materials and tools you use ss do i. Where can i find those and how costly are they. Weve got a few hammerstones one crappy flaker and an antique soldering iron bopper but materials and tools are lean now and for a while so any direction you can point me is soooo appreciated sir. Keep doing your thing man we love you

[@CaptMike]

There are many KZbin videos on making your own tools. For flakers copper wire like that used for ground wire on poles and polaced in a wooden handle will work for starters. A thick piece of leather or rubber glued to wood will make an acceptable hand pad for flaking and notching. A bopper is a little more probematic, but some use deer antler, dogwood or a heavy piece of copper. For materials, check with a window repair shop and they should have lots of 1/4 glass for free. Hope this helps some.

[@michael5825]

@@CaptMike absolutely sir I've got some wire and some copper anodes from those saltwater pool catalyzers and couple of antique copper soldering irons I'm going to try to make boppers from. Any opinion on soldering iron bopper conversions?

[@paullanier8280]

A different approach on getting the copper ground solid wire to its work hardened state is grip a run of it about a foot long in a sturdy vice and ckuck the other with a drill motor equipped with a Jacob's chuck and turn the drill at a low speed. As the wire twists it heats up and one end or the other snaps off at roughly the optimal hardness. Then saw it as to the length you need and drive it into handle with predrilled hole undersized . This will last many moons. Have not been back to buy more in several years and I'm past three hundred points made.

[@CaptMike]

Thanks Paul. I had forgot about that trick!

[@KnifeCrazzzzy]

Excellent video sir! Thank you! 🙏🏻

[@joseyar9356]

Aa a flacking pad I use a piece of tire thread, works very good for me, it's free and abundant.

[@CaptMike]

Sounds like a great idea!

[@darwinjames2000]

Hey... A grouting floating tool would work well for pressure flacking... And they have different types of them.

[@anuyagi7451]

Wow! You have a "flint knapping" stamp shirt on. Cool beans 😊🤙

[@CaptMike]

Ya, it's one of my favorites and I guess I shouldn't wear it in the shop!

[@jimv.661]

More good instruction. Thank you.

[@CaptMike]

Thank you for watching!

[@dr.froghopper6711]

How well would bronze brazing rod work in a flaker?

[@CaptMike]

Bronze seems a little too slippery. It won't hurt to give it a try and compare it to copper.

[@politicalvagabond1]

Have you tried modeling glass? If so, have you tried firing it in the microwave kiln. Theoretically it should work...since you can fire small amounts of silver clay in it...right? Isn't it the same principle...fusing the material...be it metal or glass...while burning off the binder? I'm interested in fusing glass, but I'm also interested in modeling glass, but there's not a whole lot of info out there on it...especially the firing/burnout part. Here are the only two videos I've seen on the subject. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4q5YWVjnLlqesk kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqe7dHhvoJZlp5o

[@CaptMike]

I have never tried modeling glass as it requires a very high temperature to reach the point where it flows (somewhere around 2000 degrees F) My microwave kiln only reaches about 1400-1500 degrees F (as best I can measure) plenty hot to fuse glass, but not hot enough for it to mold. Let me know how you come out.

[@politicalvagabond1]

@@CaptMike OK. I will. Thanks.