Doesn’t do a lot of good to do a lot of grinding. …….. What an epiphany of knowledge and experience to share about percussion Knapping! I should have concluded this on my own, after so many ground edge broken pieces despite my care while using both Direct and Indirect percussion. HEAVILY GROUND EDGES are a legacy I have carried over from decades of Pressure Flaking where stout ground platforms are essential to create long pressure flakes. I must have hit every pot hole on the flint knapping road to success.
Most of the peanut fields were covered in Indian mounds and construction. Until the white man started plowing to grow their crops, they plowed the mounds down, scattering the artifacts, but you can steal, find them. It may be harder, but I am sure there is artifacts, steel layer just ask the farmer if you can walk he is Theo Before he plants after the rain is best auto fax will be sitting on stems like mushrooms. Easy to see if the rain is hard enough. Good luck, Sam Panther England
It is my belief that Tom Mann Balt, all the artifacts he has from the farmers around Dothan Alabama. He has the largest collection in the world of ancient artifacts, more than any museum.
I used to live 25 yards from a mound with borrow pits on the other side. After heavy rains, I could walk my driveway and find artifacts. I spent my life building reproductions of all sorts of native tools and weapons. Now I’m too old to do anything but sleep.
What if the grass is so tall that if you drop something in it it's almost impossible to see or what if your hunting in the winter and you drop your white tools in the snow.
Anything you drop in the snow disappears. Tall grass is not that bad, actually. I'd rather be looking for a light colored object in the grass, in any case. Just my thoughts.
I'm trying to catch up on your vids. Got to this one and had to laugh. Alot. You have answered the question about step fractures. It is practice, practice and more practice. Probably will get some anyway. By the way nice flakes and strategy.
i have been knapping that keokuk for a little bit getting it from neolithics ...good bad ugly section. It is heat treated according to neolithics, and seems a bit chalky. I have noticed a slower strike can produce good results, on indirect. I have been learning from you and appreciate the time and work you do producing videos.
Chert... hydrated chert... chalk... that's the morphology and that stuff looks to me like it's partially hydrated... which means the water was there when it was formed as opposed to just forming an outer cortex.
@@flipflopski2951 thanks for the info, and i may have jumped the gun because i was knapping some keokuk today and it has a slight pink hue with small red dots to it. The stuff AKA jack crafty is knapping looks more white...idk im just a beginner...lol
I Neue all these people 40 years ago but I have forgot their names and the highway numbers I have forgot I could drive there like the back of my hand but my memory is failing me. I am 80 now and not expected to live for another year
Keep an eye on my auctions. I have an auction on this channel every week. Do a search for "jack crafty auction". No time to send out notices, so you'll have to keep checking.
Great video! I think you should just answer every question the way you want to @JackCrafty it’s your channel and they came to you for advice. So speak from your experience nobody can tell you what your experience has been only you know that information. If they disagree that’s fine and it doesn’t carry any weight. We’re on your channel and value your opinion and knowledge not some keyboard hero’s. There are always going to be someone who disagrees. For instance There are people who know the earth is round and people who think it’s flat lol
i can make folks big blade orders. the client would need to send me the rock as i have no access to big stone , accept that the final product would be out of spec and they would also need to be willing to face delays as i will no doubt break all the attempts , but sure i will take your commissions just comment below for certain dismay with lots of delay !
@@KnapperJackCrafty i keep telling people that we are running out of stone but they dont believe me. i always ration my stone and make every flake count just like the old guys who's lives depended on it did.
You go south out of Fort Gaines cross the bridge to go to Alabama Drive about 10 to 15 miles you will come to a country store on the left the people who own this land on this store
I would say it depends on the topic. So far step fractures are his most persnickety subject related to actual flint knapping. For other subjects look into his Patrick Blank channel.
There is a place on the Alabama side at Fort Gaines, Georgia, that the native Americans used as a trade Center. This was Creek territory and many tribes. And other communities came there to trade. There is a huge chert quarry, just off the trade area you will find billions chert chips there where they made bifaces before, leaving to go home
Fort Gaines, Georgia is the place for white chert. Mostly blacks live there they have no use of chert. Go there and ask around they will be willing to show you for a few bucks. There is lots of white chert quarries. They are too many, and no one uses it. If you want to see the biggest Arrowhead collection in the world, go to TOM MANNS fish world you will not believe your eyes and they are all 100% ancient native made points
Elon Musk just pulled up with a trailer of dacite... he says it's not steppy and he only wants $6000 for it and he's throwing in a trip to mars... should I do it?
My current tools: th-cam.com/video/AeianYkdLec/w-d-xo.html
I go from 7 inches, to 6 inches to 3 inches to 1 inch...but not by choice!!🤣🤣
I know exactly what you mean!
The old people didn't like traveling with a lot of rocks either 😂👍
Doesn’t do a lot of good to do a lot of grinding. …….. What an epiphany of knowledge and experience to share about percussion Knapping!
I should have concluded this on my own, after so many ground edge broken pieces despite my care while using both Direct and Indirect percussion.
HEAVILY GROUND EDGES are a legacy I have carried over from decades of Pressure Flaking where stout ground platforms are essential to create long pressure flakes.
I must have hit every pot hole on the flint knapping road to success.
😆
Lol
Those are the most effective and beautiful zigzag stikes I have ever seen, bar none.
Most of the peanut fields were covered in Indian mounds and construction. Until the white man started plowing to grow their crops, they plowed the mounds down, scattering the artifacts, but you can steal, find them. It may be harder, but I am sure there is artifacts, steel layer just ask the farmer if you can walk he is Theo Before he plants after the rain is best auto fax will be sitting on stems like mushrooms. Easy to see if the rain is hard enough. Good luck, Sam Panther England
Thick or thin kinda vague terms for measurements. what's your definition of each and the demarcation point where thick becomes thin?
Thick becomes thin at 5:1 width to thickness ratio. Less than 5:1 is on the thick side, more than 5:1 is thin.
It is my belief that Tom Mann Balt, all the artifacts he has from the farmers around Dothan Alabama. He has the largest collection in the world of ancient artifacts, more than any museum.
I used to live 25 yards from a mound with borrow pits on the other side. After heavy rains, I could walk my driveway and find artifacts. I spent my life building reproductions of all sorts of native tools and weapons. Now I’m too old to do anything but sleep.
Obsidian may not step but it sure does hinge fracture. I find glass and obsidian to be incredibly easier than chert/flint/jasper
What if the grass is so tall that if you drop something in it it's almost impossible to see or what if your hunting in the winter and you drop your white tools in the snow.
Anything you drop in the snow disappears. Tall grass is not that bad, actually. I'd rather be looking for a light colored object in the grass, in any case. Just my thoughts.
I watched over 100hrs of videos before I felt I knew enough to ask a question.
I'm trying to catch up on your vids. Got to this one and had to laugh. Alot. You have answered the question about step fractures. It is practice, practice and more practice. Probably will get some anyway. By the way nice flakes and strategy.
i have been knapping that keokuk for a little bit getting it from neolithics ...good bad ugly section. It is heat treated according to neolithics, and seems a bit chalky. I have noticed a slower strike can produce good results, on indirect. I have been learning from you and appreciate the time and work you do producing videos.
Those other rocks looks like raw pedernales that freeze cracked knaps.
Yes. Freeze Cracked knaps a lot of this stuff.
You're very welcome.
Chert... hydrated chert... chalk... that's the morphology and that stuff looks to me like it's partially hydrated... which means the water was there when it was formed as opposed to just forming an outer cortex.
@@flipflopski2951 thanks for the info, and i may have jumped the gun because i was knapping some keokuk today and it has a slight pink hue with small red dots to it. The stuff AKA jack crafty is knapping looks more white...idk im just a beginner...lol
Your videos have helped me alot
Thanks. I'm very glad.
Onions heck ya. My dietician said air fried is still fried
I was thinking porcelainite right when you said it
Yeah. Someone told me what it was but I can't remember.
I love the white.
That wise-acre owl cheated. Third lick was a straight-up crunch.
I know. It was great.
great knapping 😃
Thanks
I Neue all these people 40 years ago but I have forgot their names and the highway numbers I have forgot I could drive there like the back of my hand but my memory is failing me. I am 80 now and not expected to live for another year
Why does the leg pad interfere? I was thinking of making one
A leg pad blocks the use of maximum force.
1st and did I see some gouging going on lol. Thanks for the entertaining and helpful videos
You ever sell any blades,please let me know
Keep an eye on my auctions. I have an auction on this channel every week. Do a search for "jack crafty auction". No time to send out notices, so you'll have to keep checking.
Great video! I think you should just answer every question the way you want to @JackCrafty it’s your channel and they came to you for advice. So speak from your experience nobody can tell you what your experience has been only you know that information. If they disagree that’s fine and it doesn’t carry any weight. We’re on your channel and value your opinion and knowledge not some keyboard hero’s. There are always going to be someone who disagrees. For instance There are people who know the earth is round and people who think it’s flat lol
Light color cherts is better cause the blood of your pray makes it on it is more satisfying”
i can make folks big blade orders. the client would need to send me the rock as i have no access to big stone , accept that the final product would be out of spec and they would also need to be willing to face delays as i will no doubt break all the attempts , but sure i will take your commissions just comment below for certain dismay with lots of delay !
I'm not sure if you're being serious... haha
@@KnapperJackCrafty when he said "break all the attempts", I thought Hell, that sounds like me!
The big stuff is still out there it's just underground
Correct
@@KnapperJackCrafty i keep telling people that we are running out of stone but they dont believe me. i always ration my stone and make every flake count just like the old guys who's lives depended on it did.
@@Zane-It oh yes
You go south out of Fort Gaines cross the bridge to go to Alabama Drive about 10 to 15 miles you will come to a country store on the left the people who own this land on this store
Looks like rock I got for free at the knapp In wv thanks to Chris rocks
Cool
Jack crafty, are you ….persnickety 😧
Agreed
I would say it depends on the topic. So far step fractures are his most persnickety subject related to actual flint knapping. For other subjects look into his Patrick Blank channel.
@@KnapperJackCrafty agreed with specifics.
There is a place on the Alabama side at Fort Gaines, Georgia, that the native Americans used as a trade Center. This was Creek territory and many tribes. And other communities came there to trade. There is a huge chert quarry, just off the trade area you will find billions chert chips there where they made bifaces before, leaving to go home
Fort Gaines, Georgia is the place for white chert. Mostly blacks live there they have no use of chert. Go there and ask around they will be willing to show you for a few bucks. There is lots of white chert quarries. They are too many, and no one uses it. If you want to see the biggest Arrowhead collection in the world, go to TOM MANNS fish world you will not believe your eyes and they are all 100% ancient native made points
Good to know!
On occasion, I've wished desperation on my ex wife. But wish in one hand,....
Elon Musk just pulled up with a trailer of dacite... he says it's not steppy and he only wants $6000 for it and he's throwing in a trip to mars... should I do it?
Yes. Then sell the ticket to Mars to pay for the Dacite and more rock.
I’d like to get first dibs on that Martian Ridge Flint vein. Thousands of tons just waiting. Boulders on the surface the size of small cars. 🥲