1302 - How to Flintknap Landscape Stones (Levallois Technique)
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- Flintknapping. Knapping rocks. Making stone tools. Arrowhead. Lithic reduction.
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Ah yes, the famous Levlalalalala technique. Love it
Yay more landscape stones back to our roots
Awesome video! You are funny thanks for the laughs
Happy to see the 6061 billet back in the videos, thanks for that last little bit about picking the strike from the side, not the end cause it makes it curved from the end.
Thanks Jack. Another good vid.
Thank you Jack for the video. I’ve been Flint napping now for five years and now after watching you, I might be finally getting it. I hope I get to shake your hand at the napkin in Texas.
Awesome. 👍
I'm new here and exited to see more of your stuff. Thanks for this great info I'll be watching from now on. Ive been learning the craft and love to get more experience from a pro
Cool. Glad you're here
Listen to that loud crack as the flake releases, if you aren't hearing the crack that loud you are probably not hitting the platform hard enough.
True
I listen and learn, thank you for being a great teacher.
Love your content with one exception. Not all of us are as mentally challenged as you allude to in this video.
Do you have any flintknapping videos?
Buddy, flintknapping isn’t easy. He’s saying if you think it’s knapping nicely, you likely aren’t good enough at knapping to do what he’s doing.
Great information on taking the flake from the side, thankyou for that.actually lots of tips in this! Always enjoy your chatter too!
Glad it was helpful!
The sliding strike with the aluminum rod, can be likened to a good punch..
A good punch doesn't 'follow through', it directs the energy intentionally at one area and pulls back ready to go again - so by delivering focused force to an area, the punch strikes harder with less effort than if you were to follow through.
Ergo, by slide-striking, you are transferring your force into a specific area more effectively - than 'following through' - while also moving away from the stone immediately after striking it - so to not waste effort, nor stone or spall.
Edit: 30:36 - im must have neanderthal blood XD i didnt know this technique before watching, but while teaching myself how to do this amazing craft, i managed to figure out this ridge capturing technique just through trial and error and a keen eye for understanding what my stone/glass is doing. Tis awesome to know im on the right track, thanks Jack!
Good to see you enjoying this video. Im a daily watcher.
Yeah. I was goofing. 😁
*Finds harder stone* "Oh boy..!" *Casually cracks out the hammer*
Casually. 😆
Lmao
Hi Jack hope you're doing Super Great 👋😃👍
You too!
7:39 I don’t have much in the way of Neanderthals but I have 0.2% Denisovan that’s a lot for an East Asian guy.
I swear to god when I flint nap that ancient Denisovan ancestor is rolling in his grave somewhere in Siberia 💀
When you said you'd start knaping I thought, well. Just subscribed!
COOL 😎
Almost every construction site uses this material for driveway base at least in Texas. My gravel driveway is littered with them and if you dig anywhere in the yard you'll find them.
Any videos that show how to remove the cortex from those heat treated cortical flakes? I'd love to see that.
Cool
I had an unusual experience some bull gravel that was in a bucket full if water. I know that some say that soaking certain rock will make them knappable but I can say that I did have better results with a couple in the bucket like the first rock you used...that gray crushy stuff that has an almost spongy feel to it, as far as rock goes anyway. Heat treat at an end temp of 450° held for 4 hours is my sweet spot. I let it go at 175° @ 2hs, 200° @ 2hrs, 250@ 1hr, and then 50° an hour till 450°. I load my turkey roaster Friday evening, cook on Saturday, and knap on Sunday. This formula is my tried and true for my taste. I've wondered about splitting a rock and soaking half and drying the other to see what the differnce may be if any...maybe an experiment for you to do down the road.
Interesting experiment. But statisticians know that the odds of success are better in the direction of your bias. So if you think soaking will yield good results, you'll break the other (dry) one on purpose, usually unconsciously.
@@KnapperJackCrafty yeah, I can see that. But, consequently, a person equipped with that understanding should be able to produce a non biased result with proper use of that conscious awareness at their disposal. Awareness is the key to avoid conscious or even subconscious biases by implementing the propper and deliberate restraint. Of course, the individual must have well developed lobes to undertake such an act self regulation.😃🤷♂️
I am interested in replicating small handaxes from chert cobbles, but only using prehistoric techniques (stone hard hammer and antler soft hammer). Your videos are awesome but I wonder if you have any suggestions that do not use modern hammers.
Yes. I'll do a hand axe with natural tools later today or tomorrow on this channel. I have another channel called "Allergic Hobbit" that shows only natural tool flintknapping if you want to look at that in the meantime.
That was some good lalalala!
Thanks 😆
Yes.
do you know how to get rocks as large as those? i recently got some average size bull rock and i want to try to make a handaxe out of but it never is big or round enough for that to happen. Any advice you have?
There are people who sell big rocks at knap-ins.
Vernacular is the term you sought
Mr.Crafty
Ah yes
Well sir what a wonderful demonstration of working a an extremely tough stone I’d love to be able to do that but I’m afraid I’d make a lot of gravel. But they tell me when it’s you start out you gotta make a lot of gravel. I’m quite good at bird points bet I need a lot of help. Hard to ger t. God bless youAnd I’ll catch you down the trail H Sam Collins
This is a good find. Just got a bunch of landscape stone. A lot of concrete looking inclusions inside but really cool colors. Murky green and red and orange.
Got it on eBay called “texas primo thin chert” lol. I knew it wouldn’t be great at $37 for 22lb but figured it’s worth a shot. Definitely not thin. Big round rocks
I needed to use a steel hammer, and Hard, just to get into the things. I’ve got them all spalled out now and did pretty good I think, considering how unfriendly the rocks were.
I’m going to try fire heat treating with a buried thermometer in with the stone
Sounds good. A turkey roaster or regular kitchen oven is easier but I'm sure you know that already.
Oh yeah. I just want to do it the firey way 😁
Imagine being a youngster and being teach this but 30000 years ago
So would it be better to heat treat the stone first or flake it first then heat treat the flakes? I was assuming that you were knapping the whole stone as a demonstration for answering the questions referred to in the video
It depends on the stone. The safer bet is to heat treat the flakes, but whole stones can be heat treated as well. In general, if the stone is more than 1" thick, you're taking a big risk with the heat treat. Thin spalls and flakes have a much higher survival rate.
@KnapperJackCrafty this makes a lot of sense thank you
You have an interesting way about ya, sir
Thanks
Sir, how long is your 1 1/2" aluminum bar?
4 inches
I need to improve my llallala technique. All kidding aside, those bull rocks looked to be quite tough.
Oh yes
I just randomly found this video, what do you do with the flakes?!?
Seriously?
@@KnapperJackCrafty ...yea what do you do with them?
@@bvictory5698 the bigger ones can be knapped into arrowheads. If they are less than 1" accross, I throw them out.
6061 T-6, 7005, and 2000 are the most common aluminum alloys (T-6 is a heat treating standard), check out 2000 alloy if you can find the required shape, I've found 2000 doesn't mushroom like the higher alloys.
Will do. 👍
Beginners realize they have to start striking harder, Unknowingly changing their sheer angle you have got to maintain the sheer angle in the follow through
Where ya at now ole friend ,out of the van i hope
Yes. I'm temporarily staying in Texas in a real house. 😁
Your definition of useful will of course depend upon what it is you are trying to make and how close your actions are in bringing that forth. However, much of that cast-off appears to be repurposable in the eyes of someone desiring to make something else. How many gun flints are lying there in your waste pile?
Probably 6 gun flints, if you use a stone saw to cut the basic shape. (many cracked pieces)
My new happy place😏😏
Awesome
Here's a grand idea on the secret of it: go make bigger rocks into littler rocks lmao you'll figure it out. Your ancestors did it so can you
Can u knapp an animal or a deity like prehistoric time. Read in a museum book.
Can you show it on a video so I can see?
@@KnapperJackCrafty Don't know which 1 to pick. Paleo/Meso/Neo lithic. Maybe u can pick 1 on the net ( Prehistoric [ Stone Age ] rock figurines or idols ) Ur the pro. Good luck 🔨🗿
I recognize those rocks guess i need to send you better stones to make up for those bad ones😂
Works for me. 😉
Ball-peen hammer for those looking for they type he is referring to.
Wanna bet
Hello happy Jack Crafty; could show us how to Knap an hatchet ace any style would be great I want to try to knap one and I’m not sure how to begin.. arrowheads and spear points I’m beginning to get fair at but a hatchet axe is my downfall.
I'll try
That’s all any of us knappers could ask for someone trying and we beginners getting a free lesson at the process.. anything you knap is always a great lesson for me..
Bi-polar, oddly familiar
😆
I've found at garage sales and swap meets copper hammers of various sizes for cheap.
Buy them ALL.
I’m only 1.4% DNA Neanderthal:( I was hoping for more
Only been doing this 2 weeks or so but am learning so much from your videos!
Interesting points about neanderthals but I'm a little confused; most of your other work seemed to deal with Native American styles of stone-knapping but neanderthals were only a group that showed up in Europe and interbred with humans there. Considering that natives got to America via land bridge from Asia it seems more likely that their techniques would have been from Denisovans. Kind of splitting hairs on that, and while I don't know the research done on the stones from Europe Asia and the Americas I'm guessing all 3 were using similar techniques. I was kind of automatically doing it myself just trying to whack stones and make them do something. Though some of it was also picked up watching your other vids.
Now I've watched this one I probably will call my improving attempts the "la-whack-a" technique.
Hocam bu merak nereden geliyor?
I don't know 😁
The technique I use is, pay a professional 😎
Perfect. 😁
Aldi parking lot!!
I'll add it to the list. 😉
But what are you making ???
In this video, I made a "biface" or a "core" depending on whether it will be worked down further into an "arrowhead" or used only for removing more flakes from it.
@@KnapperJackCrafty wow ! Ok cool
@@KnapperJackCrafty got me wanting to smack some rocks
@@KnapperJackCrafty i’m going to Flint nap me a fully functional replica civil war cannon
@@aaron5632018 welcome to the dark side.