Flint Knife part 1, Hammerstones and antler

[@show-meoutdoors6837]

You are one of my very elite favorite KZbin knappers thanks for sharing!!!

[@johnmartin6140]

excellent video.....Thanks for taking the time to do these for us to enjoy and learn from.....please keep them coming.....I like the knife river and the coastal plains/flint river the best.

[@backyardsounds]

Jim, I love your videos. I just found your channel and can't get enough of your how-to vids. Thank you! Keep up the good work!

[@WelderRDT]

Very nice, Jim. Great work, as usual.

[@JohnMartin-ze8cf]

Great video.....Thanks for doing these for us.

[@paleomanjim]

Glad you like them!

[@paleomanjim]

@oldknapper Hello Dell, both hammerstones are made from sandstone. The brown one I picked up in a Utah wash and it is much harder and stronger, good for the earlier stage work. The lighter color one is sandstone from the beach. My wife and I sometimes walk along the beach and I'm always looking for hammerstones, washed up mammal bones, or whatever!...jim

[@paleomanjim]

@BuckskinFringe No heat needed! Its great rock, I've been thinking of making a trip out there but not sure where to find it, I think it is mostly on private land....

[@LukeTunkel]

Thanks, I've got some of that stuff and haven't started doing anything with it yet, now's the time I think

[@paleomanjim]

@AwesomeMegaBalls Yes, the spalls and flakes make good tolls as well....

[@paleomanjim]

@wanderinggibbon Thanks, I'm still experimenting with the downloads and have a few things left to try out. I changed the aspect ratio on this last download but now I notice the full screen is not utilyzed....still learning!...jim

[@paleomanjim]

@82f150 Pedernales is very nice rock, but it tends to vary a lot. The root beer Pedernales is very similar to KRF and works about the same. Some of those Pedernales tabbies are hard to beat though!

[@TalksWithDirt]

@paleomanjim Well your vids are wonderful and I love it that they employ the first human technology and some of the latest in human technology. You're spanning the human toolset, and it's really really cool. From your experience when do you think humans or pre-humans started using the techniques you employ? Do you see techniques like yours employed by Neindrathals or other human species, than us?

[@BuckskinFringe]

did you have to heat treat that krf? im going to be going around in that area this summmer and was wondering if it was worth picking some up

[@MontanaBarNone]

Nice new cam. Great detail. LOVE dat KRF. I'll bet you could knap diamond with a chocolate bar if yu wanted to!

[@paleomanjim]

@MontanaBarNone Yeah, that KRF is nice stuff, wish I had a big pile of it!

[@paleomanjim]

Flint and chert are usually associated with sedimentary processes, such as limestone formations. Jasper and agate can be related to volcanism. I have found porous basalt or lava with agate nodules inside. ...

[@seronuske1]

Do ya heat up your stones first then start napping or does it matter?

[@4SCARECROWS]

Have you ever worked with novaculite ( particualarily Arkansas novaculite )? If you have do you have a video of working with it ? If you don't I would like to make a request in the future if you ever get a hold of some can you show us flintknapping it. Thank you : )

[@pyromaniac1491]

Mane those flakes your taking off would be perfect for flint & steel! I’d buy a box

[@dogbone222]

what do you mean by platform and stuff. I've barely gotten into knapping

[@newby1627]

Why do you grind the hammer stone against the work piece?

[@paleomanjim]

@Teckfall15 Yes, mostly dacite

[@kullcraven]

That stuff your using is what i am finding, and i find it hard as heck to knapp, you have to hit it so hard, plus to pressure flake it, is difficult, when i get more experience it may help. lol thanks for the great vid

[@whippersnapper2699]

Ive been flintknapping for about 2 years and I found a huge piece of dacite it is about 12 feet long by 8 feet tall. Ive been getting spalls around 4 feet long. My dad said it could weigh 5 tons and i want to know if it was worth anything.

[@paleomanjim]

@TalksWithDirt The first tools made consisted of simple flakes for cutting. This was followed by simple hand tools wihich later developed into hand axes made with hammerstones. Hand axes were made by both our ancestors and Neanderthals for thousands of years. Around 20,000 years ago the Solutrean folks in France developed incredible skills in making large laurel leaf blades, a skill that eludes most modern knappers today! Flintknapping skills generally degraded with the invention of farming.

[@snailface1981]

Great skill!! I'm new to all of this and when I try to make a bi face I always end up with a hump in the middle? Any ideas why? I'm from the uk and try to use Norfolk Flint where possible. I know it's my technique but I'd really appreciate and advice.

[@paleomanjim]

snailface1981 Everyone has trouble thinning the middle when first starting. Proper support of the biface is critical so that is does not rotate too moment of billet impact. Also try to drive the billet INTO the stone more instead of down. All of this requires good isolation or the flake will not release. Hope this helps.....jim

[@paleomanjim]

It is usually best to work the stones raw, at least in the early stages. If the rock is too tough it can be heat treated later, then finished afterward...

[@paleomanjim]

Hard to say, it could be course grained chert, but if it works OK that is what counts....

[@paleomanjim]

@TalksWithDirt Our ancestors have been flintknappng over a million years, possibly over 3 million!

[@killpopy64]

Does anyone know where to find flint in the east Tennessee area?

[@paleomanjim]

Platform is the area of the edge where contact is made to remove a flake.....see my begginner series for a better explanation parts 1-7

[@landroamer1000]

you ever rippen a finger nail off doing that i did once it hurt.

[@hoagyfire]

no reply needed but ive never used hammer stones and decided to try today.. wow ! why didnt i do this before ?? just used copper in the past but i can see a big difference

[@paleomanjim]

Hoagy Carmichael Yep, lots more satisfying too!

[@TalksWithDirt]

Wait a minute. We're watching a recording made on a camera with more computer memory than was on the planet probably 40 years ago. With a detector that did not exist even 15 years ago. And I'm watching this on a network of computers with each node constituting a building worth of computing even 20 years ago. And what's being communicated? Tool making from ... what? Over a million years ago? How old are these techniques?

[@AwesomeMegaBalls]

With the shards I bet you could make arrow heads...

[@miworthmen5621]

pretty beast

[@dogbone222]

cool thanks

[@PurpleOxGaming]

goosebumps threw the whole thing aaaahha

[@4SCARECROWS]

Oops..Nevermind I just realized you had already done a video with novaculite from Arkansas. Facepalm to to myself. Lol

[@Teckfall15]

I see some stuff on the table in the behind you, are those bi-faces?

[@jaratewagen7732]

Nice vid, but i can make one in 5 minutes with a small flint stone and a piece of wood for the handle. i cut the piece of wood on the top and attach the flint with hot glue there.