Making Glass Arrowheads (HD)

[@primitivepathways]

It's almost like I enter another world when I make an arrowhead because I become so focused on making the point. It's so fun to do that I make them all the time!

[@seanmulhall]

What a clear and detailed instructional video. Thank you Billy. Look out bottles. Here I come.

[@davidthegood]

Did you use that final point to hunt down the litterer that chucked the bottle?

[@JoachimVampire]

+David The Good that would be ironic vengeance XD

[@estebanromero7058]

David the Good be too good.

[@gagebutson3927]

Ha ha ha ha ha

[@alexanderson1091]

Fuck yeah

[@cameronalexander359]

While that 'snap' during the 1st notching attempt was heartbreaking.. it was an valuable lesson (give your tool room) for all that watched. Collectively saving untold of hours of personal learning experience. Thanks so much for posting.

[@newstart49]

I could have sworn I felt a piece of glass fly up into my hair while I was watching. Great video. Do you suppose if you used a coca-cola bottle, you'd call it a coke head?

[@JGraye5]

I became addicted to napping during a lithic analysis course. I stumbled across this video and had to save the link when I saw your reaction to the notching mishap! So many people would have reshot the video but you pressed on and I thought that deserved respect. Thanks for the advice!

[@bunnystew]

Super cool video. Very entertaining. Don't mind all the people whining about your method being unsafe. I suppose if your mommy wipes your butt until you're 14 ,doing this is probably really scary.

[@primitivepathways]

Yeah that's true! Probably have a lot more people living under their parent's roof then they're willing to admit.

[@nickywebb863]

primitivepathways yrnfgstdd_

[@Starteller]

Cole Hart It is unsafe, glass is more dangerous for the health than most stones but learning survival skills are important. Somebody had to take the risk to teach it. We should thank him

[@williamwazere]

+Cole Hart Man, pure agree with you. Some people take the youtube safety lectures way to seriously, like it's their insurance that will go up. I mean obviously be careful, be smart and have some personal responsibility in any action you do but we take great risks all the time to use acceptable tools like angle grinders, properly sharp chisels and the like. You see people giving about guys on youtube being unsafe in some small way and then they probably go outside and drive to the shops for some cigarettes/beer. You can do everything right and eventually you still get 'bit' by a tool or activity by the fact you can only mitigate so much before loosing the benefit from it. Life is risk.

[@emperorgluteusmaximus7069]

+Cole Hart Probably the only thing I might suggest to make it safer for the "City Folk" with no callouses on their hands is to wear gloves. Otherwise, great how-to video!

[@sailrbill]

this is the very best instructional video on knapping I've ever seen

[@AntiSecure]

I almost fucking died when the arrow snapped. Jesus lawd please have mercy.

[@screenpuller]

I can imagine some some knapper 13 thousand years ago sitting down with a nice piece of obsidian... he gets it to that almost perfect point of creation, then breaks the base off. I'm sure he screamed out the same thing you did, or at least his version. You made it work, though & more power to you for it! You're helping to keep alive the legacy of our very evolution... bravo to you.

[@yungalm1ghtyvevo586]

You sir, have amazing skills.

[@primitivepathways]

Thanks so much!

[@engelwood39]

Yes I did! You were by far the best survivalist they have had on the show in my opinion! You were very impressive.

[@alien16759]

Are you an alcoholic archer with free time on your hands? Well we have good news for you.

[@primitivepathways]

Practice a lot, and you'll get the hang of it. Primitive skills are not easy, but that's what makes them so appealing to me.

[@jamesmcmillen4828]

Well, Budweiser bottles have been used as weapons before...just not in this manner. Great video. I bleeped with you when the base broke! Talk about getting into a video!

[@lake21212]

James McMillen SO funny!! I literally just laughed out loud:)

[@primitivepathways]

Thanks Taud! Breaking the point was pretty embarrassing, so I don't know if this was a very good demo of my skills, but at least I got a point out if it...

[@sbjoelwatson]

Something I know nothing about, and what joy to watch!!! Thank you for knowing how to do this and for sharing it!!

[@carneliantopsoil]

This video was very useful to me! Entertaining was just a great bonus. My points are looking much better thanks to you! My new mantra is 'in and down'

[@Paulsinke]

After watching a bunch of videos on this subject, I was pleasantly surprised to find this one. This guy is a real craftsman and you can trust what he teaches. Wear gloves though if you haven't done it before because glass splinters in your hands can cause a lot of blood loss.

[@cjpolinsky1991]

This really helps a lot it is nice to see someone who knows what he is talking about

[@tremendodeal]

it was nice from you showing how the arrow head broke during the process and kept going, proving that perseverance is the key to success :) I'm a big fan of your videos Billy, keep going! Saludos from Chile

[@mrkiky]

Instead of the nail, you can fill the bottle with water and smack the top.

[@raykemry954]

Hit it with a rubber mallet, on the mouth end, after filling with water

[@NoelYoung100]

I sat down watched your vid today. I went outside grabbed a rock and a nail and some absideion. Thanks to you I naped an arrow head on my first try. Thank you for the vid and the time.

[@AlexSBoates]

That nail trick is out of control! Thanks for the tip.

[@primitivepathways]

Flint Ridge has lots of really pretty flint up there. I have a few flakes of it and it;s really nice stone to work, especially after it's heat treated.

[@opengarage1853]

"Fuuuuu*************k, well I guess it'll be a smaller arrow head" XD oh my god.

[@andrewbenedict3121]

You just totally showed me what I've been doing wrong this whole time. I've been chipping on the convex side first which leaves my points wit a little bit of a curve. Thank you for the information. Excellent work!

[@ArticAkita]

that is a pretty cool skill to take a bottle & whip out a point like that! even a crummy beer bottle can become a useful tool & a collectable thing of beauty in the end. a wonderful video!

[@MetalingKid]

LONG beeep! Hell yeah! I feel your pain, brother....

[@lucamontefiori4128]

I want to be a real man like him, This is exactly what i picture hemingway doing. driving ambulances under enemy fire in WW2, writing great novels and just living the outdoors to the fullest

[@roymay9758]

Nice save. You're the best flintnapping teacher I've found on KZbin.

[@floridanelson]

This why why fields are full of arrow head pieces, they are easy to break. Imagine the ten million before you saying the equivalent of "f-------------k" in whatever their native tongue was.

[@chaytonthompson5928]

a lot of native languages have very few to no swear words

[@floridanelson]

Is it weird I have no memory of making this comment?

[@anjo7465]

floridanelson hahaha

[@aHigherPower]

Amazing skill that is so hard to find hands on teaching. Now to search for my tools and start learning. Great video & thumbs up!

[@AussieBushGirl-ManuToigo]

I so love you man. I've been really trying hard to get the confidence in flint knapping since you showed me on our first show. So you have been my go to, to scratch this itch I'm having.

[@cedricbaartscheer5544]

i always thought that glass arrowheads were really cool, but i always wondered, what happens if you miss your shot and it goes into tree? wouldn't it smash into bits?

[@pantherowl3169]

The triangular shape probably helps to keep it stable

[@Doggaebi.]

Yeah it would most likely break

[@JohnDoe-yt2fn]

There actually pretty good at staying together when hitting dirt or flesh but a tree would probably break it

[@MrSnapper1d]

You video is as good or better than some of those you have to pay for.You seem to explain things a lot better than most also.

[@bushputz]

Remind me not to ride my bike in your neighborhood. Seriously, this is a great tutorial. I doubt if I would ever make glass arrowheads, but I can definitely see using these techniques to make a glass knife in a survival situation.

[@theshuman100]

"and here we see a glass bottle in it's natural habitat" sorry just had to make that joke

[@guitarXshredder]

bushputz A glass knife is as about as useful as a shield made out of cardboard. lol The points is it is not durable, while an arrow directed in the right spot is a 1 hit kill.

[@jasonmillstalks]

Marky Holbrook Except for the Aztecs who used to make their knives out of Obsidian and the fact that glass knives, especially Obsidian, can cut deeper and cleaner than steel knives

[@Trollygag]

Marky Holbrook A glass knife is perfectly good for cutting. Not so good for stabbing, but that isn't what 99.999% of knife use is anyways.

[@Scubadog_]

*bleeeeeep*

[@thewolfe2000]

I love the look of it in the light it looks like gold.

[@sticknstonesbrkbones]

I just made one over the weekend, two actually. That technique you showed for working a 90 degree angle really helped a lot! I see what you mean about it being hard to measure the pounds of pressure to remove a flake, it all depends on the size of the flake you are trying to remove. That 90 degree is one of the things I couldn't fix until this post of yours. Anyhow, now my arrowheads look better. Looking forward to another of your educational vids man, keep them coming. Thx for the 90 tip.

[@survivalkid88]

thanks Billy for inspiring me to make my own glass arrowheads.i have made 2 so far and there as not as good as yours but im excited to look into flint knapping thankyou very much.

[@MerrixsOutdoors]

First of all, I wanted to say Thank You for making this video. Secondly, I wanted to show you a video of another way to get the bottom of the bottle off. Enjoy. Beer Bottle Trick at 2500fps - The Slow Mo Guys

[@27Wookiee]

Thanks for this. I made my first arrowhead today. It's small and not to perfect, but you know what they say, practice makes perfect.

[@larrystevens4149]

Thanks to you and your vid, I have began to learn this art. My points don't look like yours but in a couple hours of trying I have produced functional tools. Believe me when I say THANK YOU!

[@primitivepathways]

Thanks Will! Glad u liked them. With practice you can make points just as good as this, and even better!

[@screenpuller]

Watching this gives me an even deeper respect for our ancient ancestors who over time developed the methodology of knapping. Just because the technology is primitive does not mean it's not wholly effective.

[@mtower235]

Great video! I love the fact that you didn't remove the part where it broke and was a disappointment and the recovery from it.

[@InsolentHalo]

Extremely cool, especially the use of glass a material that is found everywhere due to littering. Thank you.

[@denniswilliams7222]

Awesome job Mr. Berger. I've also learned how to make a bow today.

[@arqueirodeivid9598]

I just can't believe someone still can do it today, just amazing!

[@gw1055]

This is amazing, and I've been throwing away glass bottles all these years when I could be making a collection 😮

[@bandit1bandits]

that was an awsome video. glass is everywhere, and free.

[@konstantinvdovtsev2073]

Hi, Billy. Great job. I have never made an arrow head myselfyet, but I will definitely go for that. I like the way you explained the process and I really like the final thing. It is beautifil and deadly, no doubts.

[@boskinay]

awesome video. I have tried bottles and it works great but another source of knappable glass is glass tiles you can get from Lowes. They are flat and you do have pay for them which is a draw back but works. I did learn a lot so please keep up the great videos.

[@primitivepathways]

I've done that many times. Don't give up. just get another piece and try again!

[@theweswillard]

Badass Billy! Can't wait for the next DVD!

[@idunno1396]

10:19 OH NO that was really frickin nice...I'm glad that you could still save it to be a smaller arrowhead. You are truly an artist in a skill that should be passed on through all generations!

[@primitivepathways]

yes I make my own strings. They are made of either deer sinew or Dacron B-50. Both work very well.

[@thepronto1961]

Awesome!! Thanks Billy and glad you showed the breakage so we know it happens to people more experienced than ourselves.Keep up the good work.

[@mel_2506]

Nice to see someone using antler instead of copper... Well done.

[@bscarmichael1]

Sweet video and way to keep it real. Just like anything some problems can occur, it's just how you react to them is what matters. You did an awesome job, and inspire me. Thank you!

[@nellios]

whoa, i just saw the arrow you made on the show and decided to lookup how to make one! thats crazy!

[@ems2n21]

Thanks for sharing. And the video was more than sufficient for what you were showing.

[@TNLongbow]

Very nice recovery. It is beneficial to those of us just getting started to see that even a very skilled knapper can have the occasional snafu. Great job.

[@troycalloway1858]

great tutorial....ive been screwing this up for some time trying to hone my skill (lol-when it breaks, priceless...i feel your frustrations! ). Glad i finally gave up and went to YT for some more advice, your vid is the best ive seen so far...

[@zombiediarhea]

Very nice work. The results are beautiful.

[@df3photo]

Well done. Glad you kept in the break.

[@joshherbster4565]

Hey Billy just a tip when you are getting the bottom off the bottle. Use the head of the nail because it doesn't make all of those broken pieces. Great video! Thx!

[@danieldivis7912]

Thank you so much for all your videos. your bow making videos, started a competition between my brother and i to see who can build the better bow. And this video was awesome, it taught me a fair bit and taught me what a stone i have had for years was used for. God Bless and again thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@primitivepathways]

You can make pressure flakers by inserting a nail or thick copper wire into a wooden handle. Use a file to sharpen the end of the notcher and you're done.

[@Joe-wy2bn]

I liked everything about this video. So, so good!

[@jj-ve9wy]

Very informative video. Thanks for sharing Billie.

[@1renotssince13]

Thanks for the info! I have found that putting the nail in the bottle Head first gives a better result. More often than not the bottom will come out complete.

[@Tarzan07330]

very good video. thanks for posting! a tip for the beer bottle. fill it with water up to the neck and smack the opening with the palm of your hand and the bottom will pop off in one piece.

[@dougertsch]

Very informative, especially about the shape of the antlers.

[@D_Hawk-e5x]

Very nice arrowhead. Very good how to video too. I prefer using thinner antler points to do the fine flint knapping. But that is the way it has been done for 1000's of years. I have found black obsidian and now know why they used that more than any other. It is much easier to work on.

[@Trevody]

excellent video and a really fine piece of work, thanks for sharing.

[@katzkatcher]

I've been curious about making arrow heads for 50 years .I've got some deer racks under my work bench so i've got to give this a try. Thanks for the video.

[@zakhand5088]

This may sound uninteresting but you should make a video that shows people how to make arrows and tie on arrowheads as well as applying the feathers. You made videos about everything else except this so it seems like a good idea and no one else has made any videos on it that look good. By the way good job with all of these videos they are very informative.

[@primitivepathways]

Any straight shoot should work. You may have to get out and look around, but you will eventually find something that works. You can also split pieces of wood from a large, straight log of hickory or oak. Whittle them down until they are round and are of the right flexibility to fly well off your bow.

[@tomaf]

First of all i was surprised that u could flake glass off that easily, and second, i always assumed they flaked chips off the slate from the wide sides, not from the edges. My uncle used to be one of those guys in the yellow trucks that worked along side of state highways, and he found dozens of arrow heads and spear heads that he saved and framed in groups. So i've examined many arrowheads but could never figure out how they did it. This video was very informative for me.

[@nickkaz98]

this guy knows how to make points! i have pictures of stuff he made a long time ago. i like using those cobalt blue milk of magnisa bottle bottoms from a long time ago.make for some cool looking points.nice to see your still at it Billy.kaz

[@earthsurfer13]

Awesome work! I dig the antler tools also. I believe I will try this.

[@OutdoorAlchemy]

Great video Billy. I learned a ton in those 12 minutes!

[@karlo8093]

Awesome Billy! Great work. On my list of things to learn. Thank you for the tutorial andshowing us what can be done.

[@MrCamperman123]

I tried it and it worked great, thanks for the great vid

[@jonah214]

Could maybe do a video soon on some basic flint knapping techniques. That would required help a lot

[@TheFaithtrix]

Thank you for the tips, Billy.

[@carloslara1085]

Pretty nice video and the arrow even though it broke you still managed to make the arrow

[@apatisk]

that... sound... so satisfying...

[@Truthseeker667]

Good technique. Nicely done.

[@snaponjohn100]

Great video, Billy my friend!! I met you at Dave's last Fall Gathering a couple of years ago. I just got a small knapping kit, so I thought I would start with glass. God bless. John

[@karmicmessenger]

Thank you very much for the education. I, like many uninformed people, always thought that the only method was hitting the piece with another piece like it's always portrayed in documentaries on stone age life. This was my first exposure to the method of chipping by pushing with antler bone. Very fascinating. Does one use the same procedure with flint or just glass?

[@TheDeskBombs]

woow man! you are a real master in flintknapping!

[@keigancullen7454]

Thats so cool, and it looks like you bought it it's so good.

[@bruceprosser8332]

Thanks for making this video Billy, I have collected some rather large pieces of green-blue glass, almost a half inch thick and was thinking about using some of it to get started. It would make some gnarly spear points.

[@carr869]

Thanks for the video. Like your style of knapping.

[@leondies7813]

this is the most helpful exposition on the flint knapping sites that I have seen shows very well how to get a good result and what to use for practice very good explanations all the way to the end would like to see a bow constructed from Vine maple

[@primitivepathways]

Thanks Leon! by the way, vine maple makes an EXCELLENT bow!!

[@kalistuh]

Thaks a lot! :) I already started making my own bow! but its a takedown bow, made by a piece of wood and skis for the limbs! Now I think i will start to make arrows! Thanks for the video and tips!! :)

[@Panzerzimmerpflanze]

Thanks for the great tutorial - best I've seen! Knapping is something that has always eluded me - going to give it another try after seeing this.