Flint Knapping using an ancient punch technique.
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- Flint Knapping using an ancient punch technique.
From my prehistoric home in this video I will be testing my flint knapping skills to make a stone tool used by the Inuit culture to prepare hides.
The technique used to achieve a box section was originally from Denmark in the Bronze Age when they made axes like this.
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You are an awesome Flint napper I wished I was as good as you are. I am 64 years old. I’ve only been flint napping for about 2 1/2 years. I won’t ever become the skill level of you guys. I have cancer and I love doing the artifacts, I only wished I would’ve started when I was young like you guys did start because it takes lots of years to become somebody like you. I wish that I had the money to buy one of your pieces. They are awesome thanks for sharing with us, I love watching your videos.
Hey thanks for your comment mate sorry to hear about the cancer , just remember in the craft it’s not always what you can do but how much you enjoy it all the best bro
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Throughout my life I have heard people talk of not having time because they have too many axes to grind. Now I understand! Thanks for the video. I very much enjoyed it.
Time is always the thing isn’t it buddy
Your ability to adapt to the immediate changes seem to be a huge skill necessary to this hobby. Seeing the potential for success in the face of a perceived failure is inspirational.
😎👍👊 cheers
Thank you for sharing, Will. Love you like a fellow tribesman.
In regard to using modern tools, you addressed it in a previous video and I agreed then; when these tools and artifacts were crafted in the past, the time was there to do it with the technology available.
To complete these projects in a reasonable time to get on to the next one, I see no issue.
And the final thought being, if they had the fancy tools we do, they'd absolutely use them too. Just the way it has always been.
Such a inspiring dude makes me want to start my own primitive skills business much love an respect will all the way from Indiana in us
Holy Moley, my heart nearly jumped out of my chest on the big crack, lol. Yikes. But this is what happened... it truly happened to ancient ancestors as well, and they had to figure out if they could make the same tool, or save the flint for another project... phew, it's definitely stressful to watch, ha! You are amazing. Master of your craft...
I personally like the longer videos that you do. It gives us a chance to see even more of the knowledge and passion you have for all of the many works you do. It's absolutely fascinating!! Please please make more. Have a blessed day and a better tomorrow 😊
There's something so mesmerizing about this whole aesthetic. It highlights the pure telos of man, which I think is to harness the natural world through skill and will. It reminds me of the Silmarillion, like Feanor shaping his jewels.
I'm a detectorist who has found some awesome stuff. However an eyes only find of a Neolithic axe is in my top three. It isn't a wishful thinking axe it's a definite axe that I've just handed over to my local FLO. Watching the skill and time that Will puts into the construction of these incredible tools makes my little find all the more special to me.
What a brilliant watch. 👍
Thank you for a class in a great stone working and casting copper. You make my day with your knowledge of all things reconstructing the past.
I'm really wanting to find some flint now, we have a lot of rivers in this area so I may go hunt the river banks where I can. Thanks for showing us.
Love your videos mate! Best content on TH-cam!
Thanks Fred
Hey Will, im sure you don't remember, but about ten years ago i watched one of your videos and ended up messaging you. Like the great person you are you gave me advice on my knapping journey and i have been knapping and growing in experience ever since. Thank you and keep knapping!
Dear Will, that was a very interesting and suspenseful documentary - and funny as well. The look on your face at the end of the grinding part … mate, it cracks me up every time I watch it!
lol cheers reading your comment made me laugh out loud cheers
Absolutely brilliant mate. You are superb at knapping. I was a metal detectorist most of my life, I have always loved history especially this Stone Age stuff. I have tried flint knapping years ago- just arrowheads, but it was very rewarding. A hand knapped flint axe is a beautiful thing to behold isn’t it. Great stuff I thoroughly enjoyed this!👍🇬🇧
All hail Will, our tribe leader, nice video mate you get better every time ❤
Thanks Will. That was a fascinating video, really interesting to see the casting process and use of the copper punch. Thanks for explaining the techniques.
Ahh cheers Andy it was a bit of a project glad you enjoyed it mate and thanks for being a member 😎👍
Love your videos. Always entertaining with you being purely yourself as well as just showing the true process of the beautiful creations you share with us. Thank you Will!
Excellent story, and a fine completed product. 'Ginding' work lent its nature to a multitude of other activities; I expect that in the Good Old Days it was given to the apprentices...
I love your videos ….. could watch one each day
Thank you Marty
Hello Will, , I like the bit about useing super glue and powdered tusk too fix blemishes,,as a hobby guy I may recommend useing fingernail glue called kiss ,it will not look all rough ,just smooth and glossy ,,it has a brush for fake fingernails and is a good superglue, ,Really like your content 😉
Congratulations. This tool is really very nice.
That was nail biting to watch at times😅 thank you for that journey 🙏
Cheers Lee
Fantastic video and project, must admit my heart sank when the big piece came off 😂, absolutely stunning work 👍🏻, you're understanding and knowledge of flint work is second to none 💪🏻
Amazing skill - always great to watch a true craftsman working - thanks Will
AWESOME THANKS
One word sums this up EXCELLENT-I really enjoyed this 👍👍
That ax is just beautiful. Your skills are amazing.
Dude this is the coolest shit I ever seen. Everything about this video. I love your hovel. What a right man cave!
Thank you for this video,I find your skill at making flint tools amazing. learning these skills speaks to my heat and hopefully I will be able to find a teacher that I can sit with in the flesh and learn from hands on before I leave this life, my hope is to be able to make my own set of stone wood carving knives and tools as carving with knives is one of my passions, most of my wood carvings that I do now are done with modern knives and hand tools,but to lean the skills to make them out of stone I feel is very much part of my journey .
Awesome! Masterful... love it. There's lot to b e said about what comes to us on dreams. I have them too and am very compelled to make them.
I really enjoy your movies you are a very special human being and you've got a lot to share and I appreciate everything that you share thank you for sharing your knowledge
WE understand you... using modern materials to make a box is not the issue.. it's the ancient skills using sand and materials that count!! You don't need to speak through every action when a person is intuitive... WE understand when you are making a HUGE effort to communicate with the Zombie Playsation critters on earth... Amazing guy.. please keep going!!! Love you!
Cheers mate appreciate that
Thanks Mr Will, that was awesome!👍
Just keep doin what you do 😊
Bless your heart cheers Mike
That big chunk you broke of blew my mind. I could tell the second that you broke that piece off your flint block… that you had broken off something that was the so good even you were gobsmacked. I swear I felt positive energy emitting from my ipad screen after it flaked off. I think the Gods were with you.
And they call him a "primitive man"
One's mind and hands were so busy learning and crafting that it makes that term utterly nonsensical
They were extremely smart to make everything they needed from basically nothing.
It's just hard to wrap ones mind around
This was a great journey.
Best Wishes William
Our Ancestors Knew more than We have Forgot! he is Re Learning.
Cheers Robert all the best mate
Great stuff. I have a huge old copper soldering iron that I can cold hammer to shape a copper punch and work harden at the same time. I am out and about around the Meusnes area of France and I will keep an eye out for large cobbles of blonde flint or whatever I can find.
Love these videos mate, you are inspiring me and the missus to get out of the city of Melbourne, (AUS) go back to our roots and live more primitively..
Knapping is a bit like chess, every move counts, gotta think way ahead, but you just never know. the Stone won, and I quit, gave up, maybe again sometime? Just not a gift GOD gave me yet. I see your art, dedication, and hard work.
I find you to be a master. Thank you for this . Blessings
Cheers mate
The music works really well with this video Will, great editing too ❤
Always a good time! Thank you
Thank you
Man would I love to have some large chunks of flint like that. It's really hard to find or get in the US.
Will! This was the most exciting video I’ve seen to date! I loved the suspense. Your stone actually worked with you all the way through until it was finished. I think the pieces that broke off were meant to be. But that didn’t stop me hollering at the video when the second piece came off. I said flip it around!! 😃 my family must of thought I’d lost my mind. 😂 What an excellent technique you showed us. Thank you so much! I follow the Native American traditions and I wanted to say, your dreams can really teach you lessons! Keep listening to the ancestors coming to you.
😘😂😎 lol loved that comment thanks 😂😎😘
This is a very enjoyable and interesting video. Your skill is amazing 👏👏.
Nice work Will! Love your work and your channel! Don’t worry about whether we appreciate what kind of tools you use in your work, what you do is always awesome!!!
Ahh cheers mate I appreciate that 😎👍
Well done Will.
Looks like an Incan Tumi knife. Incredible!
Cheers never heard of a tumi knife though to be honest
@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival Look them up. You won't be disappointed. A few of them turn up in the Mexica cultures in the east of meso-America too, but they're of South American origin. They were metal but that's more or less the same shape you've come up with - some were simple and others were incredibly elaborate.. It's really fantastic what you've done. And I like the longer format personally.
Excellent work and thanks for sharing that I learn something new and amazing every one of your vids I appreciate that alot
Nicely done, and you are very likeable besides being skilful and a good teacher.
Thanks for sharing this with us, all the best.
Thank you Jasper very kind of you
That was a magnificent job you’ve done. Looks incredible. I like the background music. I think it fits perfectly with your channel. Keep up the great work 👍👍
Thank you mate
Awesome video I hope to attend one of your workshops this year , 2024
Cheers Mark looking forward to meeting you
Thank you Will for doing this ! AWESOME Tool man ! ......good to see the old ways are not forgotten in the blast of new technology's explosion....I dunno what weapons will be used in WW III, but WW IIII will be fought with sticks and stones, and we will need to know HOW to build them.....OnWard.....
Love watching this. Thank you.
Freddy Flintoff, awesome work lad
Thanks for the video, Will.
Great background music by the way.
I did not realize you could grind flint till I saw this the other day.(A Neolithic decorated flint macehead dating to 3000-2500 BCE found at Maesmor, Corwen. Now housed at the National Museum Cardiff in Wales.) copy and search to find without links. Now that I know you can grind flint. how would you grind something like this? can you recreate this mace head next?
Bravo! such a wonderful result, and that thing would be perfect for skinning and animal's hide off and delicate cutting of meant from the bone. Thaks for showing us the process and great work! this is indeed the first video I have ever seen from you and I has subscribed to your channel and look forward to watching more flint Knapping from you. I live in the Rocky Mountains region of Western Canada and in my area there is a large amount of Nephrite and Serpentine stone that is both heavy and likely quite Knappable, but I lack the tools or the transportation to get to the place and do anything with the stone but it is partially transparent and I am Itching to give knapping it a try because it is a beautiful Dark green, almost black with black dendritic-like formations inside of it. and it is everywhere in the Rockies. However, it is VERY tough Rock and would likely require a skilled hand to Knapp, but I'm willing to give it a try, there is also a crap-ton of Quartz stone in the region as well so that may be an alternative to the Nephrite and Serpentine. The one thing that we do not have an overabundance of in this region is flint or obsidian, so if I wanted to knapp those, I would have to first find a retailer and then buy it at an exorbitant price just to break it all into small pieces, why not use the local stone, Eh? Thanks again for the video and look forward to many more! I've included a link to a video of a Rock and Gem hunter named Dan Hurd and he is doing a video about Jade, and this gives some very valuable information on recognizing Nephrite, Serpentine and related minerals and if you take his knowledge and combine it with Flint Knapping, you could arrive at some very unique products if Nephrite and Serpentine can be used to knapp into various tools from the Stone Age. Check it out, you won't be disappointed. And yes, I live near the Fraser River in British Columbia Canada. Lots of minerals to benefit from in the region if you know what you're looking for and how useable it is.
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Hey from Denmark! This is so awesome to watch. I've seen some of your knapping videos and was wondering how one would make the 90 degree corners on our axes. The polish on our axes has also always astounded me. I've tried polishing flint with machinery and carborundum paper, and it took ages to get anywhere (I gave up). Working this with normal sand - has required a lot of grit (pun intended...)
incredible artifacts king
hi will, when you hold the objects up to the camera, it takes a moment for the camera to focus , but it won't focus on the object if your face is still in view. if you could try to present the object infront of your face to get the camera to focus on it, that would force the camera to refocus on the closer object
@@Tolredan cheers mate I appreciate that and slowly getting the hang of it thank you
Hi mate. Hope all is well. This vid is incredible. I love flintknapping and I study archaeology at uni. I think prehistory has an appeal like no other. For my third year I want to do research on how styles of flintknapping changed during the late Neolithic/early Bronze Age. I think there's a real case to be made that copper/bronze tools were used. I've spoken to a few professional archaeologists in several different parts of the sector and for some reason, they're really against this idea, which I don't understand because I think there's evidence pointing towards it. The early Bronze Age was a very interesting time in Britain's/Europe's past. This vid is the very first time I've seen someone other than myself thinking about this. Haven't got a clue if you will reply to this, but it's worth a shot anyway!
@@bobss.94 I always reply mate and sure fire away hopefully I can be helpful
Looks a lot like a leatherworking crescent knife!
You made casting look a lot easier than it is.
You must have a big pile of sharp bits of flint somewhere and another with lots of potentially workable bits of flint in it.
That was definitely a defining moment but it came off beautifully square.
Is there a grain to flint, I could see where the fracturing was going and how you were using them but is there a way or direction you should not try and punch?
that click for the Burrin was delicious
absolutely fascinating stuff thankyou for sharing
Most reventions are found in dreams blessings to you
I do amature woodworking basic power tools. After seeing your sanding process, I'm much more appreciative of my palm-sander lol
lol
Very cool
Hi Will, I just discovered your channel by way of this gem of a video, which is definitely worth a subscriber and thumbs up. I have done some knapping myself over the years and I can attest that it’s a rewarding craft for the hands and soul. I just shared your video with a good friend of mine by the name, Jeffrey Guinn, who runs a non-profit here in Texas, USA called Eagle Rest Reserve that helps Vets suffering from PTSD and depression by exposing them to outdoor activities such as fly fishing, fly tying and other healing activities including flint knapping. (BTW, Jeff stated “The dude is awesome”, about your video!). We have a very special weekend flint-knapping event coming up featuring friend and guest, Russel Thornberry, a name you’re probably familiar with (Outdoor Channel TV host, musician and Editor in Chief of Buckmaster Magazine, to name a few). If not, definitely check him out.
I donated about 150 lbs. (68 kg) of Georgetown flint from my personal stockpile for the event. It’ll be awesome seeing a group of Vets being introduced to the ancient skill. It’s worth saying that you have a couple of new fans, and no doubt you’ll have many more when I share your video at the knapping event.
🤘❤️🤘
In North America square technology is unheard of and at “knap-inns” it’s not seen that much. Only those that studied European stone tool technology practice it along with blade core technology. Bifacial technology is what is mainly focused on in North America and it doesn’t help that larger material that is needed to produce square technology is not readily available unless you are near the quarry. My teacher studied European stone tool technology and showed me a little with what material he had in his old age. I know the basics however I couldn’t even reproduce what a Neolithic teenager could produce. I’m 22 but I am still an infant to European stone tool technology but I am still learning.
Very interesting stuff. Subscribed.
Impressive, and beautiful results. Where'd you get the giant flint rock?
Use the grinder dust from the tusk for polish compound.
Cheers! Will, I would appreciate you, or anyone else here, letting me know if these comments came through. I used to get feed back from the many channels I comment on up until a couple months ago.
I see your comment my friend 😎👍
A true masterpiece as usual will! I'm glad to see you are doing well. I wanted to ask you if you had any advice on where to source a small amount of mammoth Ivory? I can't seem to find anybody who can sell me a bit.
Oh well,
I'm off to go start making my first moose billit and practicing with my new copper spatula.
Hi mate look up mammoth_mogul on instagram they sell it
Kekulé spoke of the creation of the theory. He said that he had discovered the ring shape of the benzene molecule after having a reverie or day-dream of a snake biting its own tail (a symbol in ancient cultures known as the ouroboros).
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene
@41:38 An aphrodisiac. You had me going there, Will! Sounds like something out of Chinese medicine.
Lol
Great vid. You got another subscriber :)
Very nice job Mr will I'm really quite proud of you because there's not a whole lot of skilled craftsmen who are skilled in historical archives😮 I would love to have a piece of bronze a very small bronze axe with a handle about the size of a pencil to wear around the neck that could actually be used😮 where can I acquire a piece of true bronze or should I just try to smelt my own where do I get real t i n to blend with copper😮
The music reminds me of Burzum's ambient tracks
I learn each time - every day is a school day. Thank you.
Just salvaged a hickory handle from a club hammer. It feels of similar weight to an antler piece of the same size. Any reason it wouldn't work as a soft hammer?
When that piece broke I was gutted for you but then looked at the left over shape and thought that doesn’t look too bad actually although it was opposite to what you planned out I’m only half way thru it just over so waiting to see the outcome
I nearly spat out a rude word 😂
Excellent video Will! Really enjoyed this one. That is a very interesting looking tool. What exactly would the purpose of such a tool be?
Scraping hides mainly mate thanks for commenting
That is what I thought but was not sure. Thanks for the information! @@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival
Lovely work will. Where do you you get your mammoth ivory by the way. I need a bit for a project i'm working on.
I found someone on instagram called mammothmogal they are expensive but I guess it’s the way it is
Enjoy your video 👏👏
Thanks
Thank you 🙏
Love your work Will. If I could just politely say I’m not a fan of the background music playing the whole time. Perhaps it could at least be a little quieter.
Sorry I tried to get it right but appreciate your opinion
I'd love to watch you flint knap live
Will lorde. Do you have any advice on where to get ahold of big pieces of flint like the big piece you started with today?
Could you use a long antler point in place of that copper punch? It looks a bit like an Ulu
Exelente ¡
Subscribed!
But I really need to know what the soundtrack is! Can anyone ID it?
Thanks!
Thanks I don’t know off the top of my head but I will try and find out for you
It reminds me of an Aztec sacrificial knife
Could this technique be used to make those pierced and carved flint mace heads (Maesmawr, Airdens, Urquhart, Knowth etc.)?
I would love to try something like this, but i am quite impatient, so perhaps not!
Yeah patience is definitely part of the process mate
Can someone explain to me what kind of a tool that is? Looks like maybe some kind of tool used for tanning hides?
It is a version of something that is used for scraping fat from hides by the Sami tribes in the tanning process
@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival Well, that's super cool to learn about my ancestry!
Always send like magic to me
Do you think it is possible they had done this with antler beforehand? Or does the method coincide with the usage of copper?
Generally known as a copper technique I believe mate
@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival thanks!
@44:25 Nice result.
One thing was puzzling me while you knapped... why do you blunten the edge you're about to knapp sometimes? Is it so you don't lose force on the strike as the otherwise fragile edge chips when the hammer hits it?
Thanks for that, really enjoyed it, masterful work.
PS. I had another question in my mind actually... I am very interested in dolmens and I suddenly wondered if they may have transferred the skills from flint knapping to roughly shape the great stones used in dolmens. It made me wonder if you could knapp a boulder if you held a big rock in both hands, to roughly shape the capstone of Pentra Ifan dolmen in Pembrokeshire, for example.