I enjoy hearing you explain Flint knapping and making jokes it's part of the reason why I watch your videos I have learned a lot from your videos over the last year I have now figured everything out and making nice thin points thanks to your videos and one another Flint knappers videos thanks you for passing on your knowledge to others who enjoy Flint knapping
I just subscribed because I like "cowboy coffee" and I love your very unprofessional approach to explaining how to nap, with such perfect results! Love your sense of humor. I worked in a stone quarry for 4 years, driving a forklift and moving rocks for 20 + sculptors. I think of all the napping I could have done with all the scraps I cleaned up after the them. I hope to someday attempt this art, with you as my teacher. Great video!
As always,your humor is very cool. And the knapping, the best. Always learn something. That stone looks tough.? I heat treated some stone per your experience and it came out nice.
I picked up a couple of chunks of landscape stone that has a white chalky cortex, like flint, but is a grainy battleship grey or darker with sparkles. I have artifacts of similarly grainy material, so this should make beautiful blades. But, it's insanely hard, so hard I can't hit my target platform. I overshoot with all the extra force. I've put it off to the side until my skills improve significantly. Torture inducing material (I'll keep it to myself).
I gotta find something to usable in maine. Been stuck with glass, tiny bits from landscape stones. Was gifted a large chunk of obsidian that I'm saving till I have a more practice. This is a very rewarding hobby and almost zen like
Anondaga and Esopus cherts are fairly easy to get in NY. When I go back to Vermont, I'm going to stop in NY and try to get some. It's not bad. Mostly smaller chunks, though.
I find quite a few nice flint nodules randomly along mid coast Maine. They are grey/ tan/ white and about the size of large softballs to football size with green/green grey insides. Although not native, ships used to use it for ballast and dump it, many of them wash up along with similar sized cobble in the gaps between ledges. I have found them from Bath all the way to Boothbay. I find the most between Pemaquid and Friendship. Most of it knaps pretty well.
It's the same with hunting a lot of people hunt for that big buck but myself and most natives hunt to feed their families so they choose the deer that is gonna taste good and not the biggest deer because the biggest deer is the best breeder so we want that deer to breed lots of does to keep the deer population up. But when people hunt for the biggest healthiest deer the deer population goes down because they are not around to breed.
For the comfortable speed vs overuse of material bit; that's why I've got a motorcycle, so I can go fast and still get 30mpg. Not sure how that translates to rocks, though.
@@KnapperJackCraftycan't afford obsidian. Knapped glass a bit; best results I got was from a big thick vase someone broke at the restaurant where I'm a dishwasher. Yeah, I can see why that would be the 30mpg, and like with my motorcycle I'm a lot more likely to get cut up if I mess up or do something stupid. Need to find more colorful glass because I don't like those ghost flakes, but I think the churches wouldn't like it if I busted up their windows for material.
@@KnapperJackCrafty I had not, and will keep in mind when I've got a little bit of dough to kick around. At the moment I've gotten most of my stones from planters and stuff around gas stations and fast food places and stuff like that, but have to be really choosey because most are too small or the wrong shape or both. Or like with the glass, if something breaks at work I use that. Not a whole lot of lava flows to go to here in Louisiana.
I find big blades over rated because they aren't as they are to delicate useful as there metal counterparts. You can do 90% of your basic cutting tasks with simple flake tools I only see a few instances in which the big flint knives would be better than a flake tool like in butchering or fighting. That's just an opinion I got from using flake tools for all my cutting tasks last year.
@@KnapperJackCrafty My lame attempt at a joke. You're absolutely right about how much waste there is trying to make large blades. Here in Pa it seems that was mostly done at the quarries to make the material easily transportable.
@@KnapperJackCrafty Occasionally bouncing around in my brain is something you said about hunting being incidental to the manufacture of arrowheads. I think it was you. An idea that requires further contemplation for sure. To what extent was tribal warfare a driving force in flint projectile manufacture?.. A good question... I'm learning more from TH-cam knappers than from main stream archeology. A field that gets stagnant and likes to repeat the same common tropes all the time as you well know. Your insights into some of this stuff is amazing. Doing some thinking between the knapping and yapping?.. I'm 61 and have been doing auctions my whole life if you want to talk about that sometime. If your used to driving from the east coast to Texas there are some good $ making possibilities. Needless to say I wouldn't do it with an empty vehicle.
Make the straight side the top, and steepen the angle on the back third of the curved side, and make it a blade, with the curve side being the cutting edge, and the steep part leading to an area that can be hafted, or wrapped.
I think another reason you don't see a lot of other people making videos like you is a lot of guys are just knapping slabs and preforms and are not spalling down rock into bi faces because it's a way of reducing waste. And there just isn't the same awesomeness of watching knapping a preform as there is to rock to point like you do. I tried watching that primal hunting guy and I just couldn't. You can tell he's a rich boy with his trailor loads of rock behind him. And that automatically makes me not want to listen to him.
22:30 in you mention a grinder so I guess I wasn't off in thinking that if I were to do this. Rock Saw and 4 stage rock polisher or sander. I watched a guy do exactly that with opals and then knap arrowheads out of them but he used the sander to take off the cortex and thin the sides and shape the preform before knapping it. I wonder if a guy could do the same technique for agate.
@@flipflopski2951 that's nonsense. When you're talking about knocking flakes off of a rock with the specific intent of making an arrowhead, the Right way is any way that makes an arrowhead. Van gogh's and Renoir were both impressionists. They did not paint alike, but they both created art. Its foolish to say a person who creates art is doing it wrong.
My current tools: th-cam.com/video/AeianYkdLec/w-d-xo.html
I enjoy hearing you explain Flint knapping and making jokes it's part of the reason why I watch your videos I have learned a lot from your videos over the last year I have now figured everything out and making nice thin points thanks to your videos and one another Flint knappers videos thanks you for passing on your knowledge to others who enjoy Flint knapping
I love watching man no trash music non reality and you show real skill. great job! Flint knapping is actualy hard
Nice vid, as usual. That one with the 'outie' looks like Sloth from 'The Goonies'. Thanx, Sam
Hey yooou guuuuyyyyyyys
I just subscribed because I like "cowboy coffee"
and I love your very unprofessional approach to explaining how to nap, with such perfect results!
Love your sense of humor.
I worked in a stone quarry for 4 years, driving a forklift and moving rocks for 20 + sculptors.
I think of all the napping I could have done with all the scraps I cleaned up after the them.
I hope to someday attempt this art, with you as my teacher.
Great video!
As always,your humor is very cool. And the knapping, the best. Always learn something. That stone looks tough.? I heat treated some stone per your experience and it came out nice.
Thr stone in the thumbnail is actually quite good.
I picked up a couple of chunks of landscape stone that has a white chalky cortex, like flint, but is a grainy battleship grey or darker with sparkles. I have artifacts of similarly grainy material, so this should make beautiful blades. But, it's insanely hard, so hard I can't hit my target platform. I overshoot with all the extra force. I've put it off to the side until my skills improve significantly. Torture inducing material (I'll keep it to myself).
Sounds good.
Ty for the comment about big blades as a total “green Knapper”
Have a ton of rock I need to cook an begin on and want the most out of it
I gotta find something to usable in maine. Been stuck with glass, tiny bits from landscape stones. Was gifted a large chunk of obsidian that I'm saving till I have a more practice. This is a very rewarding hobby and almost zen like
Anondaga and Esopus cherts are fairly easy to get in NY. When I go back to Vermont, I'm going to stop in NY and try to get some. It's not bad. Mostly smaller chunks, though.
I find quite a few nice flint nodules randomly along mid coast Maine. They are grey/ tan/ white and about the size of large softballs to football size with green/green grey insides. Although not native, ships used to use it for ballast and dump it, many of them wash up along with similar sized cobble in the gaps between ledges.
I have found them from Bath all the way to Boothbay. I find the most between Pemaquid and Friendship.
Most of it knaps pretty well.
In Texas almost any rock will knap. Here in Michigan we wait for the UPS truck.
I wish rock was that good in TX. Yes, there's a lot of chert, but most of it is nasty.
Thanks for your abuse . I enjoyed the video.
😁👍
It's the same with hunting a lot of people hunt for that big buck but myself and most natives hunt to feed their families so they choose the deer that is gonna taste good and not the biggest deer because the biggest deer is the best breeder so we want that deer to breed lots of does to keep the deer population up. But when people hunt for the biggest healthiest deer the deer population goes down because they are not around to breed.
True.
Nice video. Always enjoy watching.
And hearing whatever you got to rant about any info is good info appreciated
Your very welcome
funny and informative
Thanks
With those inies and outies you could get a navel commission.
Hehe 😁👌
Can you pls do a (Danish blade)?🙏🏽
I'll try
@@KnapperJackCrafty thank you!
I think you should try to knap some rock candy. You may need to freeze it though🤔
Yeah. Probably
For the comfortable speed vs overuse of material bit; that's why I've got a motorcycle, so I can go fast and still get 30mpg. Not sure how that translates to rocks, though.
You can get 30mpg if you knap glass or Obsidian. 😁
@@KnapperJackCraftycan't afford obsidian. Knapped glass a bit; best results I got was from a big thick vase someone broke at the restaurant where I'm a dishwasher. Yeah, I can see why that would be the 30mpg, and like with my motorcycle I'm a lot more likely to get cut up if I mess up or do something stupid.
Need to find more colorful glass because I don't like those ghost flakes, but I think the churches wouldn't like it if I busted up their windows for material.
@@petercoene5930 hehe... 😆
@@petercoene5930 have you seen this website or the Obsidian?
www.kentuckyflintworks.com/Obsidian.html
It's pretty cheap.
@@KnapperJackCrafty I had not, and will keep in mind when I've got a little bit of dough to kick around. At the moment I've gotten most of my stones from planters and stuff around gas stations and fast food places and stuff like that, but have to be really choosey because most are too small or the wrong shape or both. Or like with the glass, if something breaks at work I use that. Not a whole lot of lava flows to go to here in Louisiana.
Was this a rant video without ranting?
Maybe
@@KnapperJackCrafty If yes, Well Done!
I find big blades over rated because they aren't as they are to delicate useful as there metal counterparts. You can do 90% of your basic cutting tasks with simple flake tools I only see a few instances in which the big flint knives would be better than a flake tool like in butchering or fighting. That's just an opinion I got from using flake tools for all my cutting tasks last year.
True. The only time I've seen big blades shown in actual Native American context (stone relief carvings in Mexico) is with priests and warriors.
@@KnapperJackCrafty oh yeah I totally forgot about human sacrifice and status symbolism being another use for big knives.
Hey man... could you make one arrowhead into two arrowheads?..
On purpose?
@@KnapperJackCrafty My lame attempt at a joke. You're absolutely right about how much waste there is trying to make large blades. Here in Pa it seems that was mostly done at the quarries to make the material easily transportable.
@@KnapperJackCrafty Occasionally bouncing around in my brain is something you said about hunting being incidental to the manufacture of arrowheads. I think it was you. An idea that requires further contemplation for sure. To what extent was tribal warfare a driving force in flint projectile manufacture?.. A good question... I'm learning more from TH-cam knappers than from main stream archeology. A field that gets stagnant and likes to repeat the same common tropes all the time as you well know. Your insights into some of this stuff is amazing. Doing some thinking between the knapping and yapping?.. I'm 61 and have been doing auctions my whole life if you want to talk about that sometime. If your used to driving from the east coast to Texas there are some good $ making possibilities. Needless to say I wouldn't do it with an empty vehicle.
Make the straight side the top, and steepen the angle on the back third of the curved side, and make it a blade, with the curve side being the cutting edge, and the steep part leading to an area that can be hafted, or wrapped.
Or, strike it two more times and make it symmetrical again. 😅🤣😂🤣😅
@@docv73 Easy Peasy
Yeah don’t blame Kevin ! 😆🤣😂😅
I think another reason you don't see a lot of other people making videos like you is a lot of guys are just knapping slabs and preforms and are not spalling down rock into bi faces because it's a way of reducing waste. And there just isn't the same awesomeness of watching knapping a preform as there is to rock to point like you do. I tried watching that primal hunting guy and I just couldn't. You can tell he's a rich boy with his trailor loads of rock behind him. And that automatically makes me not want to listen to him.
I know exactly what you mean.
Great spalls of fire yer gud. Merry Christmas (Patrick?) from Richard in collldd mid-Michigan
Yes, my name is Patrick. Merry Christmas to you too!
I really enjoyed this video! Forget the haters and keep doing what you do.
Where can I find items you sell? Is there a Jack Crafty T- Shirt?
I have an auction on my channel every week. I don't have t-shirts yet.
22:30 in you mention a grinder so I guess I wasn't off in thinking that if I were to do this. Rock Saw and 4 stage rock polisher or sander. I watched a guy do exactly that with opals and then knap arrowheads out of them but he used the sander to take off the cortex and thin the sides and shape the preform before knapping it. I wonder if a guy could do the same technique for agate.
Yes.
Your doing it wrong
There is no doing wrong. Either a really great point emerges from the stone or it doesnt. If it does, it's definitely all right.
He's showing us the wrong way so when we do it the wrong way we will know we are doing the wrong way the right way.
@@flipflopski2951 that's nonsense. When you're talking about knocking flakes off of a rock with the specific intent of making an arrowhead, the Right way is any way that makes an arrowhead. Van gogh's and Renoir were both impressionists. They did not paint alike, but they both created art. Its foolish to say a person who creates art is doing it wrong.
@@kensanity178 Yes it is nonsense but that's the way I usually respond to obvious trolls.
Rocks that are kinda funny lookin are the best in my opinion
Sometimes