I'm just beginning to understand a little of how and why you prep a place to begin the knap. So you just show your skill. I love your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge
I'm glad to watch this travel to past - I always imagined how ancestors made flints and tools. Very interesting your option for the direction to flint - to me geologist your choice is clear congratulations
Thanks Jim for posting this. That's a great idea of using the anvil rock.. I haven't tried that technique yet but I can tell just by this video that the sandwich stone really adds temporary mass to the biface and makes it much easier to knock those long flakes. I've done some punch knapping & I really like how you quickly you can make very thin, flat bifaces. Awesome vid!! Billy
Thanks for making these videos! That inertia control idea, "sandwich technique" makes a lot of sense. I wish the thumbs up, "like button" for this video was still working.
Good insight on the sandwich, will definitely give it a try. Maybe it'll even help me keep from snapping pieces in two, as I tend to do that more often than not...there's obviously something about supporting a piece that I've missed along the way. lol Thanks for postin' up Jim, great vid as always.
Thanks for a great video! What I love about this is that, evidently, you very well may have 'discovered' or evolved a new way of working…that happens all the time in life right? But not often with a tradition that evolved incredibly slowly, often not really moving much for millennia and is what? 3 million odd years old! Put another way it's incredible and beautiful that you seem to have added a useful, 'core'- ( forgive the pun!) technique to SUCH an antique, well one of the very oldest of all ancestral techniques/technologies. AMAZING! I will try it... really superb! Super well done and further good luck and great explorations, evolutions and such good things to you! Thanks again!
I would be surprised if you were the first Master Knapper to discover this. There's nothing new under the sun. Great minds think alike etc. Great idea the rock coozies too! You should sell em on ebay.
@kyletango I was trying to add mass to the biface and figured a stone on top might help. I have since learned that Mike Dothager uses a chunck of red ocher in a similar way. Perhaps others out there have done this as well?
@gotrocksinhead I was shooting for overshots on the early flakes and mis-judged the toughness of the stone, my fault really. I should have backed off on the angle! A few of the Hummingbirds stay here all year long, they are cool!...thanks
Slick. I think that as the tools and and points made by the Solutrean culture in what is now western Europe and later in the eastern US and Canada were probably made in the same manner and with similar tools as the marks and rock flaking on these later, picture samples and those from 20K years back are either the same or similar.
it seems you were having more problem than normal with having flakes end in step fractures on this one. If that is true, my guess would be more with the use of the punch or the cortex of the rock being the problem rather than the sandwich stone. Am I off base with this? It didnt look like the problem was with the sandwich stone. I like the idea of the sandwich stone. Dan You have hummingbirds.. We still dont have very many yet. Gotta love springtime!
@stevensarchery We have a good supply of ryolite in the California desert and I picked up a couple milk crates of the stuff last year. Kinda tough stuff, but works OK with the punch and I like the looks of it, even fresh made points look old!.
paleomanjim I don’t have any rocks here in Nantucket, we only have quartzite and I’m still a beginner so I can’t really Knapp that. So I’m just stuck buying rocks and using glass.
@@paleomanjim it's a neat trick for certain. I had some moderate success with this technique when bifacing some spalls. Like anything else, I'll need to practice this but it is quite useful.
Hi Jim, do you ever do classes or one on one instruction? I live up near Mono Lake but I'd be willing to travel if you're interested in giving some instruction.
Hey guy great video!!! Iv'e learned a ton of techniques from you, so first off thanks for that!! I live in the Hill country of Texas Llano to be exact. Anyways I have good access to the same material that your using in Fredericksburg and I have trouble a long with every apprentice on the thinning process.. do you heat treat that same stuff? and if so will it help me drive thinner longer flakes to thin?
Lots of good flint where you live, some of the best in the country! Heat treating will allow the fracture to take place with less force so it can make the stone easier to knapp. Of course it also weakens the stone so there is that drawback also. Most of the stone around Fredericksburg is high quality and does not require heat treatment. I do not heat treat much anymore unless the stone is really grainy. Happy chipping....
Hi Jim ive been watching your vids for awhile now im interested in commissioning you to do some work is there an email address i can give you details through if your interested thanks and keep up the good work
@@paleomanjim Oh ok ...but I've been watching your videos and I've been flintknapping now for a good 3yrs and you're one of the many people that have inspired me to have gotten where I am today in the flintknapping 🌎 along with other men, knapp yucatan, curtis smith, will self, paleo joe moore .. Thank you, nítsáágó áhéhéé .. I'm full navajo 🦋🖤🔥🐺💯
I'm just beginning to understand a little of how and why you prep a place to begin the knap. So you just show your skill. I love your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge
I'm glad to watch this travel to past - I always imagined how ancestors made flints and tools.
Very interesting your option for the direction to flint - to me geologist your choice is clear
congratulations
Thanks Jim for posting this. That's a great idea of using the anvil rock.. I haven't tried that technique yet but I can tell just by this video that the sandwich stone really adds temporary mass to the biface and makes it much easier to knock those long flakes. I've done some punch knapping & I really like how you quickly you can make very thin, flat bifaces. Awesome vid!!
Billy
Primitive Pathways hi billy
Thanks for making these videos! That inertia control idea, "sandwich technique" makes a lot of sense. I wish the thumbs up, "like button" for this video was still working.
Using rocks to hit rocks to make cool rocks.
Good insight on the sandwich, will definitely give it a try. Maybe it'll even help me keep from snapping pieces in two, as I tend to do that more often than not...there's obviously something about supporting a piece that I've missed along the way. lol Thanks for postin' up Jim, great vid as always.
Thanks for a great video! What I love about this is that, evidently, you very well may have 'discovered' or evolved a new way of working…that happens all the time in life right? But not often with a tradition that evolved incredibly slowly, often not really moving much for millennia and is what? 3 million odd years old! Put another way it's incredible and beautiful that you seem to have added a useful, 'core'- ( forgive the pun!) technique to SUCH an antique, well one of the very oldest of all ancestral techniques/technologies. AMAZING! I will try it... really superb! Super well done and further good luck and great explorations, evolutions and such good things to you! Thanks again!
I would be surprised if you were the first Master Knapper to discover this. There's nothing new under the sun. Great minds think alike etc. Great idea the rock coozies too! You should sell em on ebay.
Technique particulière et interressante. Merci pour cette démonstration.
@kyletango I was trying to add mass to the biface and figured a stone on top might help. I have since learned that Mike Dothager uses a chunck of red ocher in a similar way. Perhaps others out there have done this as well?
@gotrocksinhead I was shooting for overshots on the early flakes and mis-judged the toughness of the stone, my fault really. I should have backed off on the angle! A few of the Hummingbirds stay here all year long, they are cool!...thanks
@jamieknaps I look forward to seeing your video, there are many possible ways to punch so we can all learn from each other, thanks...
I am curious as to where you came up with this technique. Looks like a good idea. Thanks for sharing.
Slick. I think that as the tools and and points made by the Solutrean culture in what is now western Europe and later in the eastern US and Canada were probably made in the same manner and with similar tools as the marks and rock flaking on these later, picture samples and those from 20K years back are either the same or similar.
I have several Solutrean casts that I have studies many times, those guys were incredible! Thanks
it seems you were having more problem than normal with having flakes end in step fractures on this one. If that is true, my guess would be more with the use of the punch or the cortex of the rock being the problem rather than the sandwich stone. Am I off base with this? It didnt look like the problem was with the sandwich stone. I like the idea of the sandwich stone. Dan
You have hummingbirds.. We still dont have very many yet. Gotta love springtime!
@stevensarchery We have a good supply of ryolite in the California desert and I picked up a couple milk crates of the stuff last year. Kinda tough stuff, but works OK with the punch and I like the looks of it, even fresh made points look old!.
paleomanjim I don’t have any rocks here in Nantucket, we only have quartzite and I’m still a beginner so I can’t really Knapp that. So I’m just stuck buying rocks and using glass.
Is that piece of Pedernales heat treated?
What is your punch, whitetail or mule deer?
I thank you for the video. I wish you’d have shown yourself setting up your platforms.
Thanks for watching
Awesome tip,thanks for sharing..... Rich
I think I'll try this after work today. I have a bifaced core that I been waiting to finish
Cool, go for it
@@paleomanjim it's a neat trick for certain. I had some moderate success with this technique when bifacing some spalls. Like anything else, I'll need to practice this but it is quite useful.
Hi Jim, do you ever do classes or one on one instruction? I live up near Mono Lake but I'd be willing to travel if you're interested in giving some instruction.
Sorry, I live in Nevada now....not much time for teaching anymore
I understand. We live almost on the Nevada border in Bridgeport. Maybe you could point me in the right direction for finding good rock for knapping.
Hey guy great video!!! Iv'e learned a ton of techniques from you, so first off thanks for that!! I live in the Hill country of Texas Llano to be exact. Anyways I have good access to the same material that your using in Fredericksburg and I have trouble a long with every apprentice on the thinning process.. do you heat treat that same stuff? and if so will it help me drive thinner longer flakes to thin?
Lots of good flint where you live, some of the best in the country! Heat treating will allow the fracture to take place with less force so it can make the stone easier to knapp. Of course it also weakens the stone so there is that drawback also. Most of the stone around Fredericksburg is high quality and does not require heat treatment. I do not heat treat much anymore unless the stone is really grainy. Happy chipping....
you are a great teacher thank you
Very interesting again, thanks.
Anything new?? You alive still or what?
good video
thanks
-boyce
you need to make them like the primitive people used to on the fly out in the field
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Hi Jim ive been watching your vids for awhile now im interested in commissioning you to do some work is there an email address i can give you details through if your interested thanks and keep up the good work
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@@paleomanjim Oh ok ...but I've been watching your videos and I've been flintknapping now for a good 3yrs and you're one of the many people that have inspired me to have gotten where I am today in the flintknapping 🌎 along with other men, knapp yucatan, curtis smith, will self, paleo joe moore .. Thank you, nítsáágó áhéhéé .. I'm full navajo 🦋🖤🔥🐺💯