Awesome video, I'm just starting out with copper and iron, but would love to get good enough to use Abo tools. I've heard Garfish scales make for good notching tools, you can buy them on Fleabay for a few dollars 👍
How do you stop shards going in your shoes ? And i really believe indirect percussion is the best method , i even came across a strange old video of native people using indirect percussion but with a tiny handheld punch held in the same hand as the workpiece against the platform then struck with the billet in the opposite hand ! It was incredible ! Saw a vid years ago saying ishi used just a nail and a pad , no abrasion evidence and had a systematic method of pressure flaking glass , and the guy replicated his work pretty well using this weird method , cant remember the channel edit , i found the ishi vid on youtube " how ishi knapped a slab " flintknapper jimmy" shows a very efficient method of pressure flaking glass using just a steel nail flaker , no abrasion at all and a leather pad
Shards get in my shoes all the time. I have to take them off and shake them out before I stand up. Even so, I still got cut by one this morning. Made a hole in my sock too.
@@KnapperJackCrafty i was hopin for some flintknappers secret way of denying the little obsidian shards access to my arches ! The next question was how to deal with the microscopic glass that gets into my clothes and skin and ends up in the bed or on furniture but i can guess what the answer is , looks like i will be forever itchy 😂
At 16:00, I was thinking about why you wait so long before driving flakes across the surface... and then you answered my question. 🤣 I think I am trying to thin not because I don’t want to see any of the industrial surface but because I am afraid I might lose a lot of width when I finally start thinning. (I have made more drills than I have a use for. ;) )
Clear glass is the actual hardest. Color makes glass softer with clear being hardest, Cobalt blue a nice medium, and Olive green ( sun cured) being softer than obcidian.
@@thefeatheredfrontiersman8135 I get lots of antique glass bottles from a Victorian era bottle dump, can attest to color glass being much easier to knap. Got some really nice green and aqua glass recently.
Ha! You said you had glass in your skin, 7: 15 or so. I said out loud: It goes with the territory. Immediately you said: Ya. Thanks for all the instructions too.
I use thicker flakes from my material be it rock or glass to put my notches in, haven't messed up my notching since. Don't know how many others do the same thing as I did it out of frustration a while ago.
@@KnapperJackCrafty ahh I honestly didn't know, I taught myself how to knap on nc rhyolite when I was younger and just started watching other people techniques. I'll post a video when I get more material. But big flakes are easy when u get the hang of it it's really just the angle you hit at🤷
I've always liked you gun handled pressure flakers. Think I'll go make some of those.
You'll like them. The direction of force is easy on the wrist.
Thanks for using abo tools😜
You can tell everyone that it wasn't you who requested it... your secret is safe.
Awesome video, I'm just starting out with copper and iron, but would love to get good enough to use Abo tools.
I've heard Garfish scales make for good notching tools, you can buy them on Fleabay for a few dollars 👍
Yep, I have couple of gar scales mounted to handles for use as pressure flakers.
Is that a wooden dowel that you tapered to fit tour hand?
All the wood in this video are pieces of branches from various trees.
How do you stop shards going in your shoes ? And i really believe indirect percussion is the best method , i even came across a strange old video of native people using indirect percussion but with a tiny handheld punch held in the same hand as the workpiece against the platform then struck with the billet in the opposite hand ! It was incredible ! Saw a vid years ago saying ishi used just a nail and a pad , no abrasion evidence and had a systematic method of pressure flaking glass , and the guy replicated his work pretty well using this weird method , cant remember the channel
edit , i found the ishi vid on youtube " how ishi knapped a slab " flintknapper jimmy" shows a very efficient method of pressure flaking glass using just a steel nail flaker , no abrasion at all and a leather pad
Shards get in my shoes all the time. I have to take them off and shake them out before I stand up. Even so, I still got cut by one this morning. Made a hole in my sock too.
Can you share the link?
@@Tradbow85 th-cam.com/video/z4Ke0YqqXA0/w-d-xo.html
You could probably stop shards in your shoes by getting some cheap Canvas gaiters. Milsurp ones will only set you back a few coins 🤙
@@KnapperJackCrafty i was hopin for some flintknappers secret way of denying the little obsidian shards access to my arches ! The next question was how to deal with the microscopic glass that gets into my clothes and skin and ends up in the bed or on furniture but i can guess what the answer is , looks like i will be forever itchy 😂
I love your content but lotta ads though, probly not your fault just youtube being youtube. But its like every 4 minutes.
Yeah, I monetized my channel a month ago. I can remove the "mid roll" ads if they bug you on this one ( or whatever one is your favorite).
If you get TH-cam premium (or whatever they call it) you don't see ads but I still get a tiny bit of revenue from your subscription (so they tell me).
Nis
surprise, you are back. i saw that thumbnail and there you go, making another copy of that one point. good stuff.
At 16:00, I was thinking about why you wait so long before driving flakes across the surface... and then you answered my question. 🤣 I think I am trying to thin not because I don’t want to see any of the industrial surface but because I am afraid I might lose a lot of width when I finally start thinning. (I have made more drills than I have a use for. ;) )
I understand.
Nice work..btw the title wouldn't work well here in Australia aye.😂
Yeah, I learned about this a little too late.
@@KnapperJackCrafty 😆
Very nice made four today 3 survived.
Nice. 👍
I also find with the abo knapping a deer antler billet makes a great replacement for the percussion stone and seems to not hinge the glass as easily.
True.
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Olive Oil Jars are Better, it's Green Glass.
Who the fuck is Ishi?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi
Are you for real ?I am Australian and even I know of ishi.
Old school Richie
Speak kindly of ishi, he was truly a gentleman
@@brucepoole8552 , Go to hell, I will speak how I speak about anything and anyone.
Weird that people want to see you make an Ishi-style point without using indirect percussion (AKA, the Ishi stick!) lol
Actually, I'm using the Ishi stick in a way that's different than Ishi used it. He used the stick only for pressure flaking.
@@KnapperJackCrafty I hadn’t heard that about him!
Does make sense that you’d get excellent leverage for pressure flaking with such a long handle tho
@@LeMayJoseph yes.
I cant work clear glass. Cant see my platforms in it well and always end up breaking it
Agreed.
Yeah same
I can't knap glass to save my life. Not sure why.
Probably because it doesn't want to be knapped. It fights me all the way.
Clear glass is the actual hardest.
Color makes glass softer with clear being hardest, Cobalt blue a nice medium, and Olive green ( sun cured) being softer than obcidian.
@@thefeatheredfrontiersman8135 I get lots of antique glass bottles from a Victorian era bottle dump, can attest to color glass being much easier to knap.
Got some really nice green and aqua glass recently.
Old bottle dumps are an excelant source of bottle bottoms. And if lucky a person can sometimes find some amazing coloured glass.
I've got a friend who searches old bottle dumps. He sent me a bag of glass some years ago. I need to find it...
Ha! You said you had glass in your skin, 7: 15 or so. I said out loud: It goes with the territory. Immediately you said: Ya.
Thanks for all the instructions too.
😁
I use thicker flakes from my material be it rock or glass to put my notches in, haven't messed up my notching since. Don't know how many others do the same thing as I did it out of frustration a while ago.
Thicker is more difficult for most people, me included.
@@KnapperJackCrafty ahh I honestly didn't know, I taught myself how to knap on nc rhyolite when I was younger and just started watching other people techniques. I'll post a video when I get more material. But big flakes are easy when u get the hang of it it's really just the angle you hit at🤷
If you "Knap" under water, you would drown. lol Watching you make arrowheads is so interesting and relaxing to me. You are amazing...
Had me in the first half lol. I pretty much exclusively Knapp glass and people tell me that ALL THE TIME