Making a Great Basin Butchering Knife from Basalt. Flintknapping

[@BestCosmologist]

This is one of the most therapeutic YT channels in history.

[@chinogabesv650]

Nice to see this channel working materials not alot of knappers like to work nowadays but the ancient people used alot, good stuff for many of us who dont have good access to obsidian or chert

[@Flintknappingadventures]

Agree.

[@primitivepathways]

Yeah I like to work stuff that most people don't. It takes practice, but it also opens up other stone resources that others overlook. Our ancestors would have used whatever they had available, and I try to follow their footsteps.

[@alicetulloch6945]

At last, someone who actually explains his strategy, the energy patterns, the sequence, stone qualities……..Thanks.

[@primitivepathways]

Thanks Alice....I always try to explain what I'm doing so everyone can follow along.

[@beardedbowyer9327]

Unbelievable stone.. for a second I thought its steel, it takes much talent for sure and it was a pleasure watching. Godspeed man

[@DaneStolthed]

Billy, your are the Bob Ross of knapping! It’s a pleasure to watch you work.

[@primitivepathways]

Thanks! Glad you liked it...

[@FishinWithBourbon]

Great tip about using the flake as a punch at 16:21

[@richardnichols1392]

Thanks Billy for the great informative video !

[@yoitsnestor4671]

Billy! Haven't watched your vids since like 2014. I missed these cool videos, had to come back and get back into knapping!

[@dwaynewladyka577]

This was so awesome. On our dad's farm in Alberta, Canada, one of my older siblings found a Cree Native arrowhead in a field. Cheers! ✌️

[@johnbautiste]

And this is how we are formed by the Great Spirit. A pleasure to watch your masterful instruction. Bob and the Great Spirit are proud of you. 🙂

[@Flintknappingadventures]

Boom! The flake punch for the win. I’ve never seen a better example haha

[@M3MAX]

@@neillancaster2794 Yeah that punch was glorious! Impressive

[@twintwo1429]

I just recently started catching up on your videoes, after close to a year off of you tube. But I have watched for years. Thanks to see you still at it. You and many others that keep these old ways going. Some of these ways are the best way. Actually, I started learning these crafts and skills when you were a little boy. But I was around 21 at that time frame, so not much difference between us. Thanks again and hope to see you in 15 more years, maybe. Oh dam, that punch trick with the flake was great.

[@Flintknappingadventures]

Only people who use these tools know these things. Good job bro. I prefer stone as well to steel.

[@Flintknappingadventures]

@@neillancaster2794 glad ya watch me. Enjoy.

[@gmol2812]

Nice, today i learned that it is possible to use Hinged Flakes as punches. Thanks

[@careylogan7639]

I really enjoy the heck out of watching you work. you're the Da Vinci of napping

[@BeckumOutdoors]

Making many happy flakes. Hahahaha that was good. Great video. Very instructive.

[@stefanlindner2348]

a great job done, Billy - I love that age old matte shiny surface !

[@ronniebryant6812]

I think you done a awesome job with it

[@hansenator5000]

Great work Billy! That basalt is awesome stuff. I like that you made this tool, because I’ve always thought they’re really cool. Basalt is definitely a predominant material out here in the far west.

[@Flintknappingadventures]

Had no idea basalt could be that glassy.

[@ANXIETOR]

Interesting how basalt looks grainy, yet it still shines. Nice knife. Thanks, Bill.

[@AFCAWorldBodybuildingArchive]

It amazes me how you stay true to your style of filming over these years. Most consistent KZbinr I have come across. 🙏💪 Please Billy, keep doing what you are doing.

[@Flintknappingadventures]

Big agree

[@lefflerjamie]

Bob Ross.....that was comical. Nice work Billy

[@primitivepathways]

haha...thanks!

[@paleoindio9094]

Great job billy, I learned a lot from your videos, thank you

[@johnmcclelndon7641]

Awesome job!

[@robertoramirez2145]

Beautiful work of art, Master.

[@haggis357]

Yoooo a long video from Billy! Haven't seen you in ages man, good to have you back!

[@Flintknappingadventures]

Gotta keep peer pressuring him to make vids bahaha

[@richardcummings7079]

Very nice job. Loved the video.

[@gabeerspamer3979]

Never seen such a high quality basalt before, but where I live there are some spots that occasionally have basalt of a similar quality or lower. In point of fact, the basalt I work with flakes away similarly but takes a bit more force.

[@efrainbarron1626]

Good job Billy

[@TaylorsAuthenticTraditions]

As always another beautiful perfect piece billy! Looking forward to more videos! Keep up the excellent work!

[@chucklearnslithics3751]

Cool material! I have an FGV obsession and have worked many. I'll have to see if I can hunt down your buddies source, down there someday... Most worthwhile FGV can make nice flakes, but have issue when you try to pressure flake them - step out like crazy. You didn't seem to have any issue with that one. Nicely done! I would be curious how well the edge holds up. I'm my experience FGV dulls out very rapidly and resharpening goes badly...

[@theyoungoutdoorsman5814]

Love the video I recently found some black basalt like that from the north fork of the holsten river here in southwest Virginia near an old volcano in the mountains and its tricky stuff to work but it works a whole lot like obsidian and its fairly easy to get used to knapping

[@Flintknappingadventures]

Never even tried this kinda stuff. Looks like basalt but sounds like dacite , weird

[@theyoungoutdoorsman5814]

@@Flintknappingadventures yeah and boy its brittle especially with the impurities in certain places but it works really well especially if its got river polish on it from tumbling in the river

[@tightwadproductions961]

Keep up the knapping videos!

[@20p65s]

Nice job man.

[@gtownbullyz]

“The Bob Ross of flint Knapping” lol

[@Flintknappingadventures]

Lold

[@paleoken]

Excellent video! Glad I found ya. Saw one of your vids quite awhile back, and like a big dummy, didn't subscribe. This time, I subscribed. Lesson learned. Your methods are well delivered and easy to understand. From one abo knapper to another, rock on!

[@RonRay]

What might have helped that material would have been to temper it in the oven. The American Indians buried flint and/or obsidian under dirt and then built a fire over it for several hours. After slowly cooling, the stone was much more manageable and leaves a beautiful shiny finish. You still did a hell of a job, considering what you had to work with. With a tool like this, imperfection IS perfection!

[@jordangolden7893]

I don't think heat treating affects obsidian/basalt although I could be misinformed

[@RonRay]

@@jordangolden7893 It certainly works with flint.

[@jordangolden7893]

@@RonRay yeah I know

[@joeerwin8687]

Great video

[@peterwaksman9179]

I would love to know where you go to find things like that! Beautiful.

[@stanlindert6332]

Nice !

[@harperramsey1305]

I can't imagine how many years u have doing this . Your finished product looks great . Thanks for showing us .

[@landroamer1000]

I’ve got basalt here in Oregon, and have used it as hand axes, flake saw blades, and hammer stones for pecking axes out of andesite, but never tried to knapp it. Mine is really grainy. I wonder if you can fire it..?

[@GordiansKnotHere]

This is my introduction to Flintknapping. I got it into my head to make a Basalt knife today. This is where I started. Thanks for a great video! Now I just have to find the proper tools and begin.. EDIT: Can you do anything with the bigger flakes form that stone?

[@primitivepathways]

Absolutely. Those flakes will make great little butchering tools, and then after they get dull they can be chipped into small knife points, spear points and arrow points.

[@GordiansKnotHere]

@@primitivepathways Thank you .

[@nevillesavage2012]

Great work. Was the Basalt heated first or right out of the ground?

[@John-M.]

No volcanics can be heated sadly. Obsidian, dacite, rhyolite, and basalt.

[@PaleoBushman]

Great job brother. That stuff is not very easy to work with. I thought you did excellent!

[@deannatroy8113]

Could you please lower the music in the video so I can hear what you say a bit better? Awesome content!

[@frankbyrd9345]

Looks and works more like a course dacite

[@ewa8723]

do you know what this specific basalt is called? tried finding it but it just gave me all other types of basalt instead

[@primitivepathways]

No I don't know what it's called or where it comes from.

[@thefeatheredfrontiersman8135]

I remember the first time I used a serrated stone blade for fleshing out a deer hide... something about it

[@johnhenderson2913]

Hey boss lemme know if you wanna start a school of primitive skills

[@adroaldoribeiro4529]

It looks quite a lot like dacite

[@primitivepathways]

YEah it does.

[@jasongreen3434]

That's a great point I'll work that stuff I got a creek it's in North Carolina like that it's hard to work sometimes lots of cracks and flaws