1877 - Flintknapping Knife River Flint Knife Blade
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Anything you can run a 1/2" or more flake with a pressure flaker.
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Heat treat a few FLAKES of everything you got except HIGH GRADE Raw Stone, Obsidian, Dacite, Basalt, Hornstone, Sonora, Fort Payne, or Rhyolite. Start with flakes and spalls less than 1" thick for 200°F for 24 hours to dry it out. Then raise the temp to 275°F and hold for 4 hours. Let cool down for 12 hours. Chip and compare. If no difference, put back I at 200°F for 1/2 hour, then raise to 275 for 1/2 hour, then raise to 325 for 4 hours.
Let cool down for 12 hours. Chip and compare. If no difference, put back in at 200°F for 1/2 hour, then raise to 275 for 1/2 hour, then raise to 325 for 1/2 hour, the raise to 375 for 4 hours.
Repeat with temp going up 50°F until you reach 600°F or nice chippable stone. Whichever comes first. If no good result, or things blow up, let us know.
Been itching all morning..."will he put up a video of that knife river? Will it be a bigger blade or one of those smaller pieces?" Looking forward to this week!
Yup yup patrick‼️
really exciting ,fun ,surprising incredible and sobering, ... your videos have everything we need Thanks 👍.🦈🔱
As a krf knapper I can attest to how unpredictable it can be or how variable it's quality is. It can be smooth as novaculite or totally laminated with existing fractures, differing hardness, inclusions. Do not assume it is as consistent as seen here. He's knapping the best of it ;)
Fight or flight response... 😅🤣😂
I was having some of that just WATCHING you strike the end and listening to it ring. 😅🤣😂
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No worries about the outcome ....just throw some of that "Voila"! stuff at it and it'll be okay. LOL! Very nice point.
That was quite a ride! That first crazy turtlebacky step was looking scary!
A fellow knapper from Washington State was at park presentation where a ranger was showing off different objects used by the old ones . He described an elk rib for hide work but my friend on closer inspection said to the ranger that the bone was used for a-braiding stone for knapping .The ranger had the piece examined , called my friend to report the finding of stone particles imbedded in the bone . A park ranger willing to take a chance on history .😊
Awesome. 😁👍
It’s amazing to think of the tiny changes made to the angle of attack and to the tiny changes made to the strength of attack in the later stages of thinning and smoothing the higher areas across the surfaces. Very very impressive skill. I do stress when trying to do it, but I think I actually stress more watching others, ha.
I heard a few super smacks on this one 😂. Nice work sir!
Ah yes. Super Sugar Smacks 😂
Beautifull work , wish I can do it one day , thanks
You're very welcome
Smooth…very smooth!
Glad to hear your dad's coming home tomorrow, you sure did have to do a lot of thinking and changing tactics on that piece of rock, you make it look so easy a caveman can do it😁
@@miketufts9765 Easy peazy
That is one thing about knife River Flint is it does break easy
Early on I could hear your mention of say eight buckets of debitage something happens. Naturally we are all a little different , 8 yep 8 five gallon debitage then the process begins some just mental and most are just learned pro and con. Thks jack. Great commentary and even better napping. Then the ole flintsnappers start working the debitage.
Yeah, after knapping 8 buckets of rock, you'll get the feel for what you've gotten yourself into. 😂
That turned out awesome!! That krf is so cool looking. Spent a bit of time looking for some in North Dakota when I visited but never found anything big enough to work
I see.
Nice job for sure 👍🏻
Jack: trying for a long piece
Crack: 3:18
Always
Oh that whole session seemes way to familiar to me.
I only take heat treats for dessert:))
You found a beautiful spear point hiding in that chunk of flint.
@RelyeaRonnie Yup. It can run, but it can't hide. 😁
Awesome stuff Jack I’m a jealous I know it’s stressful but that stuff looks to flake nicely please make a nice paleo piece!
Yeah, the paleo pieces are next
@@KnapperJackCrafty awesome Jack can’t wait
"Im gonna cut the chit chat"......continues to chit chat haha!
I live here in ND and KRF is my main flintknapping source. Its great stuff but yeah it can be super unpredictable but then also very predictable. Very frustrating stuff sometimes. But it makes such a beautiful piece when its done.
We also have some other cool stuff here in ND that people dont know about. We have Nonvolcanic Obsidian..it mostly is fairly impure, kind of more like a dacite. But it comes in all kinda of cool colors like purple, green, grey and black! Ots one of our lesser known stones found in the badlands.
Awesome. 😁 Are you aware that there are MANY knappers out there who are desperate for Knife River Flint and will pay $100 or more for a large flat rate box of KRF?
@KnapperJackCrafty I am aware but I love working with it so much hahaha so I know why it's worth so much. It is great stuff. Very pretty rock!
been a subscriber for a couple of months now and my elementary school aged son is watching too. He's picking up on the terminology....pressure flakes, percussion flakes, inclusions, etc, etc. There's a boy in his summer school class who is always being nice to everyone but talks about everyone behind their backs. My son came home the other day and while we were watching a video, he said this boy is a bi-faced chert. I nearly spat out my soda.... :-) while I don't like name calling in kids, I had to laugh..
Good one. 😂
Dimes be so bigga.
That stuff appears to be very tough stuff. It should make a more durable tool than most.
@@dwightehowell8179 Probably. But remember how easy the big fat tip snapped off in the beginning. Looks are deceiving.
You raise a subject I never considered. Is high stress common among flint knappers? And if so, was it even higher with first peoples, whose life might literally depend on producing a usable point.
And might this be the reason so many artifacts look like they didn't care about symmetry, step fractures, and remnants. As long as the point was "good enough".
For sure interesting stuff!
High stress, desperation, negative emotions, and lots of sweating is common among new flintknappers. It gets easier as you gain experience but it's never stress free.
@@KnapperJackCrafty I am curious how many of us with higher anxiety in general gravitate towards something like flint knapping
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No, "Zen and the Art of Flint Knapping" books available, eh?
Sounds like a sense of humor is needed.
I enjoy yours.
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I can't Knapp anything at the moment and I'd fail if I tried. I've been knapping for years but literally can't make anything and don't feel like trying for some reason. You definitely have to be in the right state of mind to be successful. I've heard of other guys having the same issues with their knapping and just stopping. I haven't made anything for a few weeks now. I honestly have no idea what's going on but I can't shake it off. It's not a ' newbie ' thing as I've been knapping for years.🤔
I just started getting into flint knapping the last year. I have made a couple points out of krf and broke when knotching. Fun stuff to work with and very tough. Ironically i grew up a half mile from the knife river and seen this stuff everywhere as a kid. Now i cant find any when i want some. Lol
It's not the long blades that I mind, it's the wide ones.
@@nahnahahaah6265 Me too
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Morning and thanks for sharing. Can you provide where you purchase your percussion sticks from please?
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@@sticksstonesandalittlemeta3517 Yes, but not recently.
Flint river seems similar to our EU flint in terms of color and structure. Do it knapp similar ?
Yes. Very similar
Do we know if the old ones assigned symbolic / ritual / spiritual significance to the stone types of their tools and weapons? Would specific materials hold certain powers or meanings to the first people?
For ritual or spiritual significance, we know that certain colors of the stone were important (like black or red). The type of stone was secondary.
@@KnapperJackCrafty the Neolithic and Mesolithic North African material I mostly focus on benefited from vast and developed trade networks in that part of the world providing professional knappers of the time with rainbows of exotic flint and chert and semi precious gems and all kinds of beautiful materials. I often wonder how the stone tool traders of the time leveraged and contextualized the aesthetics of their work when buying and selling.
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Oh yes. The tip break felt around the world.
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I just can’t seem to make the indirect percussion flaking work, I can’t seem to hold the flaker right and it falls out of my leg each time I hit it, I’m almost giving up, have you any advice or any videos about it
Trouble holding behind the knee?
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@@KnapperJackCrafty thanks I’ll try that