Flintknapping a HUGE Tab of Flint River Chert! (Part 1)

[@ericbrenda3516]

What a great start to a new project. Love the flakes as well. Maybe some time I will try my hand at napping again. Awaiting part 2...nice work!!

[@n6_lithics]

Good work Jake. Nice video man! Those were some killer spalls at the end

[@garetkonigsfeld2]

Thanks for taking us along 👍.

[@Guardshack-e4z]

What type of dog is Marshall? Also thank you for all the great footage, it is very helpful and interesting. Your knapping is very cool and you handle rock issues very well.

[@DakotaHorn-fv6kn]

The muddy side of it looked like a huge footprint that filled in over time with the oils and sand that makes up the chert....cool ...you are SO LUCKY to have such material to work with.!

[@GulfCoastKnapping]

@@DakotaHorn-fv6kn it was a pretty penny😅 but I agree on the footprint!

[@docv73]

Nicely done. But, I started to panic at the 33 minute mark. 😁 Tapping on that skinny end I was waiting for the whole thing to pop off. I would kill to have a place close to me to get tabs that big, and I'm just drooling over the spalls coming off of that beast! Are you planning a project that keeps that as one piece? If so, I look forward to seeing what you do with it.

[@GulfCoastKnapping]

@@docv73 more or less just going for a big blade. But I agree! It can be hard to come across big pieces like this so I had to pay a pretty penny lol. I’ll have to go rewatch the 33min mark

[@docv73]

​@@GulfCoastKnappingi looked at the time wrong. It's 28:55 through 29:30. I kept waiting for it to break about where your thumb is near the end of that section.

[@tsink6]

Outstanding work as usual. Keep up the video

[@GulfCoastKnapping]

@@tsink6 thanks!

[@RSnyder-vx8li]

Jake, beautiful piece of chert. Lots of spalls and flakes for many points and blades. Who is the gentleman who sells that material? Sure, I would like to get anything like stalls or flakes. Just getting back into knapping, so I'm most comfortable making smaller items. Thanks for any info.😊

[@billyjohnson6355]

Nice workmanship, not wasting many flakes,can,t wait to see you knap the spalls

[@GulfCoastKnapping]

@@billyjohnson6355 thanks Billy! I actually am in the process of selling these flakes/spalls as they are a bit too spall for what I like to work, but they will go to good hands👍🏼

[@ndoghouse6853]

You better quit beatin on the middle of that thing! I can tell you whats gonna happen! 🤣 Starting to look like a chicken leg but looks like you got it under control! Had me worried for a minute. Pretty rock. Ive never worked that! OK great show! Cant wait for part two! Feel free to pack all that stuff up and send it to me! Ha! Id love to help you pay for it!

[@GulfCoastKnapping]

@@ndoghouse6853 😂 we’ll see what happens. Hopefully I can straighten out the ole chicken leg. Thanks!

[@paulshurmon138]

Were you able to pick it up or did you ship that big rock in the mail? Thanks for the video.

[@GulfCoastKnapping]

I picked it up!

[@cliffowens3629]

Yup. That looks like a big tab. Nice ring.

[@rockhunter6260]

Some big nocking, might comment on the color, thought it was more opaque and red in color👍🏻

[@rockhunter6260]

👍🏻

[@anthonyrepetto3474]

So many good spalls! Crazy!

[@stephenfields6236]

My favorite chert. Thanks

[@GulfCoastKnapping]

It’s a favorite of mine too!

[@BradleyBellwether-oy2qi]

That's some beautiful material! Other than the crud.

[@LeeBybee]

I love big stuff like you like big stuff. I don’t have the material to try to make good stuff as big as you do. Do you ever sell anything you’ve made?

[@MATTHEWS713]

Some sweet flakes man🍻

[@evanfriedman390]

Big one wow

[@MrFlintwalker1]

Make a danish dagger! Ill buy it from you. Been looking for a piece large enough.

[@GulfCoastKnapping]

@@MrFlintwalker1 I’ve never made one! Still needing some abo tools that I don’t currently have. Once I find them I’ll attempt one👍🏼

[@michaelwhiteside1011]

Scary big piece. You can send me all the spalls, that would be about a million pieces if I tried to work that

[@GulfCoastKnapping]

@@michaelwhiteside1011 I have plenty of em😂

[@edgould6785]

im wincing every time you hit your leg with that hammer! Ive got a tennis ball sized bump on my leg from that..been there for 35 years and still bothers me...got one on my left thumb knuckle too! think that ones a bone chunk...LOL I like your work but dont do what I did! Send me a list of what you have for sale..I just got some of jeffs material...and lots of slab from collins

[@GulfCoastKnapping]

@@edgould6785 Luckily my leg has been a trooper but certainly is good to take care of it! And if I offer something for sale I almost always do it on my Facebook page: “GulfCoastKnapping”, I can add you to it if you request to join👍🏼

[@leechild4655]

uh oh. a long blade may be futile. lot going on in that piece. good luck.

[@GulfCoastKnapping]

@@leechild4655 we shall see!

[@leechild4655]

@@GulfCoastKnapping got lots of good small pieces for small points you could use or sell. enjoying your videos. all the best.

[@brew29]

Flintknapping a HUGE Tab of Flint River Chert! (Part 1): In which Jake repeatedly nails every single "I'm probably gonna mess this up." Rockstar.

[@brew29]

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