My 3 Earliest Keeper Cases! The Beginning!

[@jonmurphy5428]

Thank you for sharing your earlier points. That's really cool to see how far your work has come it all looks out standing!

[@HelloMoto1991]

I remember when you first started flint knapping beer bottle bottoms. You were pretty proud of that. 1986, what a time. My grandmother was still living next to the Purdy’s at the time and then actioned the house off the following year. Seeing your videos, especially this one brings back a lot of good memories spending weekends and a week every summer growing up there and hanging out with you. Good, no, great times my friend.

[@Paleoman52]

They were the best times for sure. I'm glad we got to share so many memories together. Those years went by way too fast didn't they.

[@HelloMoto1991]

@@Paleoman52 many more to come I hope. You are one of my main visits when I come up. Which right now looks like mid-October again for this year. I will catch up via messenger as that date closes.

[@lairdhaynes1986]

Very cool to see your humble beginnings and subsequent progression of skill. Thanks for sharing your work.

[@kb8030]

Love the look back brother! Crazy how much my early work looks like yours and follows the same trends and refinements you did. Only thing is we didn’t end up on the same plateau…I’m still climbing/learning and striving to reach your talent level. Thanks for the look back and I look forward to next weeks video!!

[@phrotojoe]

Looking great.

[@macbailes3635]

I have been trying to learn for the past month not without some frustration. I live in WV and only had Kanawha Black to practice on. I am retired and so on a nice day drove up to Nethers Farm at Flint Ridge. It was hard to knap too until I learned to heat treat it. I just acquired some Keokuk and obsidian flakes and am making some progress. I like your videos. Very helpful. Most of my points look like case #1 of yours. This has been very encouraging to me to see a master knapper like you started about like me. Thank you very much!

[@jjviola2378]

Great looking cases ken and thanks for sharing them with us along with all your other beautiful points you have made over the years. As I look at my own cases of old points I can tell we both traveled the same road to where we are today as flint knappers. Your work has always influenced me to do better and I thank you for that my friend. Stay safe and well and keep up the good work that you share with all of us. John Siderio

[@Paleoman52]

You too have been a great inspiration me my friend and I treasure those beautiful points you made and sent to me. I wish all the best for you!

[@devangrey4376]

Glad to have found your content. I am very new to knapping. A couple months now. Your cases look incredible. Thanks for sharing.

[@Paleoman52]

Be sure to check out all the other videos in my Keeper Case series I am making. Thanks so much for watching and commenting

[@joshfung2131]

Sick vid, keep the vids on the way!

[@russcalabrese7561]

Interesting the transformation from your earliest to more recent. It kind of brought to my mind the early thicker cruder made levanna points that I've found compared to the well made thin late Owasco levannas and Madison's I've come across. That was a cool time travel. Thanks.

[@Swamp-Fox]

It is nice to see the progression of your work. I would be proud to be able to knapp points like the ones in your first case. I have got to get a copy of "The Art of Flintknapping" and knock the bottom out of some beer bottles and give it a try.

[@kwartzkrazee]

Made from flakes found in the fields. Thats cool!

[@Paleoman52]

At the time I was bit by the knapping bug, those field flakes were the only source of material I had to work with. I also used glass and "Johnstone" (pieces of broken toilet tank, LOL). There will be a video coming up showcasing some of those materials, so keep watching.

[@rockhunter6260]

Thanks for showing Ken, your skill has greatly improved. Makes you wonder how long it took the Natives to acquire their knapping skills to make those incredible artifacts we find occasionally 👍🏻

[@geraldmeyer8296]

Nice. You could have been the the "weapons guy" in the village ! But I'm sure everyone needed this skill back way back then. Nice skill to have today, just in case.