Not to many paper thin smokers come out in those 10 speed competitions. That's a fine piece you did in 10 .

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jason, sounds like you’ve been there before

@kylefessenden3111

Жыл бұрын

@@GulfCoastKnapping I've never been down to that one, but Jake Webster usually has a 10 speed at his knap in in Brown County, Indiana. Though, we usually don't finish points in 10 minutes, we just end up grabbing a point from our stash and everyone votes on the nicest one, then all those points go into our auction at the end of the night. Plus we do a community point where we all chip in(pun intended) on finishing a point from a spall. Just gets passed around the circle

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

@@kylefessenden3111 sounds like a blast! Indiana is a bit far for me to drive though

@michaelgalloway914

4 ай бұрын

Heck yeah I thought that was awesome. How much for it

@michaelgalloway914

4 ай бұрын

I’m in Georgia I would love to go to one. I don’t know of any around here in Georgia or Alabama, South Carolina.?

I live near the flint river. I used to knap but it has been 13yrs. The past 10yrs I've seen a boom in modern knapping debitage on the banks of the river in Albany. I love that area. Most artifact dense region in the southeast

we subscribed! We know what it takes and that was some swift graceful accuracy! Yakoke!

@GulfCoastKnapping

7 ай бұрын

I really appreciate that, welcome!

You did in ten minutes what I couldnt do in an hour 😂 its been a number of years since I did any flintknapping but watching these videos is really nostalgic! I always had trouble thinning pieces without them snapping 🤥 But great job!

@GulfCoastKnapping

7 ай бұрын

Thanks! Just takes consistency and practice!

Outstanding man !!

You make it fun and educational to watch.

@GulfCoastKnapping

7 ай бұрын

I’m glad to hear that thank you!

Made my leg hurt watching that. Very cool info thank you.

@GulfCoastKnapping

11 ай бұрын

The leather pads definitely help!

THAT. WAS. AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!! I wouldn’t have believed a Neolithic jewel could be done in so little time if I hadn’t seen it done in so little time with my own eyes. Awesome!

Looks great. Amazing that you did it in 10 minutes.

Very amazing skills. Well done. I like it very much. Thanks for sharing.

@GulfCoastKnapping

4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

after the past couple of days of binge watching knapping videos and seeing varying times it takes to complete them this was an awesome video to watch, i'd love to try this when i eventually I start knapping and get to a competent level, even try it periodically to see how i've improved over time

@OwnageTheCat

8 ай бұрын

do it my dude, it's the most satisfying process on the planet

@GulfCoastKnapping

7 ай бұрын

I really appreciate that! I hope you can start soon

Very fascinating to watch! I could watch these videos all day long!

@GulfCoastKnapping

11 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

I randomly felt the urge to watch flint knapping today. It's truly so satisfying to watch and listen to rock against rock and copper on rock. Half of the time I don't understand the terms and phrases being used, but that doesn't bother me! I almost want to try out flint knapping myself, but I'm so anxious about all the health concerns and shards in lungs, so I'll leave it to the professionals! The ASMR is amazing! I've subbed for sure! 🥰

@sargent5410

9 ай бұрын

i recommend wearing gloves for new people and if your scared of getting stuff in your lungs keep your mouth closed when making big hits and by a good kit its gonna take a little bit to understand but its really fun i go hunting with them and they always work!

@GulfCoastKnapping

8 ай бұрын

I appreciate that! Glad you liked it

Even though it's not finished yet, that's still pretty impressive 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Looks like the cache of preforms I found years ago, amazing.

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

👍🏼

Had a professor tell me at a show that, if you find an artifact that Is absolutely excellent, the clan was doing very well. They had the time to dedicate to making it. You can imagine the need for tools was quite extensive and always in demand due to loss and breakage. I have found far more crudely (quickly made) points than I have "smokers" . I can guess that a certain skill level should also be accounted for as well.

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

That’s a fair point, if food and materials were plentiful, they could absolutely enjoy the process and take their time. But I find lots of crude points as well.

10 speed challenges are done at the Flint Ridge Ohio knap ins also. Memorial weekend, and Labor Day weekends. I don’t know how it’s done elsewhere, but at Flint Ridge all the participants put a rock in the center of the seating circle, then when the timer starts you grab any rock that’s not your own. Great fun to watch.

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

That’s what we do in Florida! Very cool. It’s a long drive to get up to flint ridge, but I’m sure I’ll come one year

@eh1702

Жыл бұрын

USA: Yay, let’s have a speed-challenge flint knap! Rest of world: Uh…why?

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

@@eh1702 😂 because it’s fun and competitive😂

@eh1702

Жыл бұрын

@@GulfCoastKnapping What next, organised competitive meditating? Competitive speed-tattooing?

@eh1702

Жыл бұрын

@@GulfCoastKnapping I am quite old, and was a kid in a time and a place where sex education was nonexistent. There were boys beginning puberty who used to think the most macho thung ever would be to “come” fastest in competitive w@&king. Really. Yes, you can do it but…why?

Impressive when I tried I kept Breaking the whole Piece in half very easy to do. You made it look easy. Truth I was knocking Crap stones against worst ones lol. Great job. Your honoury Cave man PFC

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Haha thank you, just a little time and practice goes a long way!

Just came across your channel. Buying my first flintlock rifle and I will need to learn how to sharpen my flints. Hoping your videos will help me. Enjoyed watching this video and I subscribed.

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate that Gregory. I hope to slow down and provide some teaching videos in the future. Thanks!

Good job my friend

Great job.!.. that's turbo-knapping...😊

@GulfCoastKnapping

8 ай бұрын

You got that right!

Nothing to be ashamed of there buddy.very nice

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

That was a fun video. I'd watch more of them. Hint hint lol

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

I’ll have to make more!

Ya got a bunch of arrowhead starting chips out of it. Lotsa cutting edges. I think you made an excellent Spear-Head ! If you stuck that into something, I'm SURE they'd get the point!

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

I agree!! Thanks!

Looks like you're ready to me! Good luck!

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Thanks chuck, it’s a tough challenge!

Nice work under time constraints 😮

WOW!!!! That's perfect dude! It doesn't need to be paper thin.... i wish i could be that good!! The chemotherapy & radiation treatments made my hands sjake SO bad, it takes me 2 to 4 hrs to make one & then its not half as good as yours. I Really Really like your video! You leave me speechless!!!! Please make some video's on creating & setting up platforms. Thanks again Sir.

@GulfCoastKnapping

5 ай бұрын

Will do! Thanks for all the kind words!

Good job I’m just a learner and I only work with Obsideian right now but man that’s good work you did, and I think you had like two minutes left you undercut yourself.

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Vaughn! And you might be right. I enjoyed knapping it even though it didn’t take long

Smoker in my book.💪✌️

That was awesome brother👍🇺🇸

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Thanks I really appreciate that man

Thanks for doing these videos for ua

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Of course, thank you for watching

I like it nice work 😊

@GulfCoastKnapping

7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

This man’s pretty brave with his balls that close to some razor sharp shards of obsidian on the chair

@GulfCoastKnapping

7 ай бұрын

😂

Imagine how much of that stuff was around before man started collecting it for 30k years...

@GulfCoastKnapping

7 ай бұрын

Oh I can only omagine

@colinking3314

7 ай бұрын

Haha parts of Africa ppl started making stone tools 2.5 million years ago 🤯 wild to think about

I have been collecting stone and tools for a very long time,and am starting the actual work in the morning... Thanks for all the inspiration!!

@GulfCoastKnapping

4 ай бұрын

So glad I could help in some way!

I would love to see you do a Folsom point . I have several in my collection from a CENTURIES OLD Bison Jump Cliff from the mud bank just down stream and from the sand bar below the jump. Every spring after a big and I mean BIG FLOODING RAIN THAT BAR BELOW THE JUMP AND DOWNSTREAM IS LITERALLY LOADED WITH EVERY TYPE POINT KNOWN TO EXIST FOR THAT AREA. Sure lots are broken or discards but every season I come onto a hand full of real treasures. Amongst my prize finds are a full half dozen intact complete Folsom style arrow points (not as big as the spear type point but none the less deadly. I have 2 complete Folsom style spear points, and last spring I came onto the holy Grail for this area a obsidian knife still hafted in its antler handle ! The sinew binding was of course rotted and gone but the blade was completely intact and the (what looks like Deer of some sort ) Antler handle was still holding on to the blade. The Antler looks burned or maybe just blackened from all those years above water line where it was completely in cased in this hard clay like rock....it's not sandstone or just clay....it's hard but if your careful and have the patience you can remove it with water, dental picks and some brushes....I had it aged at the local State University and of course they tried and tried to get me to donate it to them and give up the location of this spot but if I do....the land owner (whom I have known since his father owned the land and we were classmates in school) will never let me on his property again ever....We have seen what happens when a fossil is discovered on your property and you donate it to the State University Museum of NATURAL History....so we're not going there. I have always been fascinated by Flint Knapping and how skilled these early indigenous people became at using what they had to make tools and weapons out of. See the funny thing about this Knife is sure it's Obsidian but the closest place you could find obsidian is in Wyoming....a long ways off from there so how that got turned into a beautiful actual knife shaped knife and wound up there is one of histories great stories that are best left to ones imagination. Another cool note is many years ago when the opposite bank downstream from the jump got grazed off badly by hungry cattle left in there too long and we had little to no rain that year.....you could plainly see dozens of big circles in the ground from above the jump.....you couldn't see them another time because of tall grass but that one year you could plainly see where the Indians would put up their Tents year after year as they moved through and hunted Bison by driving them off that jump....they could get enough meat there in the summer to last them through the longest of winter months. I've collected axes, 2 headed clubs with the grove in the middle where they would place a Ash handle and wrap it with sinew and hide soaked then hung to dry and it made a very formidable weapon....spear heads if it was flint and had anything to do with skinning or cutting it's in that area somewhere....just takes mother nature to bring it out once or so a year.

@GulfCoastKnapping

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment, I’ll definitely have to try a fulsom in the future!

That’s incredible man!

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate it

@SteveChildress-cy4wc

Жыл бұрын

I use deer antler it throws a bigger flake

@SteveChildress-cy4wc

Жыл бұрын

Alot less waste

Awesome you got my Sub..😎✌️👍

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Thanks friend!

I know this is going to be a stupid question but what is the rock abrasion you do scratching the rock against your piece for? Does it help with keeping the flakes pop off in smaller more predictable pieces? Thank you for taking the time to show us the steps to create fine points.

@GulfCoastKnapping

10 ай бұрын

Sure! Basically it helps remove a solid flake. If I don’t abraid the edge, it will just crush the edge when I strike it. But making the edge dull and strong will produce more force in the stone and break a clean flake👍🏼

Very nice job 10 minutes That's an awesome point Love the material how did you do in the competition

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

I won!

You must Scribe the Stone 2023

@GulfCoastKnapping

7 ай бұрын

Will do!

You should try to knap some caramel candy as a haloween prop. It'd go well with a caveman costume

@GulfCoastKnapping

7 ай бұрын

That’s true😂😂

Wow, thanks!

@GulfCoastKnapping

7 ай бұрын

No problem!

The 10min challenges stress me out, haha. I never participated. If you're at silver river, I may see you there.

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

I certainly will be, look forward to it

@SteveChildress-cy4wc

Жыл бұрын

Yes my Clovis points go from 300$ TO 800$ EACH

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

@@SteveChildress-cy4wc Good for you brother that’s great

There's a lot of stone like that here in eastern Kentucky.

@GulfCoastKnapping

7 ай бұрын

Very cool!

What is the purpose of the quick scraping stone? Then hit it again same spot you scraped? Sharpening or making it easier to flake? Very interesting

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Great question! That scraping stone is called an abraider. It dulls the edge of the rock, makes it more blunt, less fragile. It allows me to draw a good flake instead of crush what I hit

I suspect the speed and constant progress in this video is much, much closer to the reality of knapping in the paleo period. Paleo Americans didn't have video cameras, so they didn't take a half hour between strikes like Jack Crafty does.

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

It’s very possible! Probably didn’t take too long for them to knap something out.

@fredellingsen5973

Жыл бұрын

Helluva job in 10 minutes bud!

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

@@fredellingsen5973 thanks!

Love to try it - although I imagine that your upper thigh must be one big blackish, purply browny, yellowy, greeny .. bruise?

@GulfCoastKnapping

7 ай бұрын

You’d be surprised that pad really works! Before I used it I certainly got some bruises

Smokin fast. Almost scared me how fast you were going.

If I found that in a field,that would a good find.

@GulfCoastKnapping

8 ай бұрын

For sure!

Nice you know the flakes are more sharper then the points makes you wonder if they did points for to impress and for show cause u can’t get no sharper then a flake I have often heard that the women made must of the tools and knifes and stuff because they had more time while the men hunted and gathered food but very well done I been trying to to it for a year now I have to order my rock I mess up a bunch trying to get better turn big rock into Little Rock I believe I should work on a chain gang lol about three more years I have it down I ain’t got patience and scared to mess up what Little Rock I can get

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Flakes are much sharper your right! But they are also very fragile so I think that’s why arrowheads and blades were made

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Keep working on it and you’ll become a great knapper!

Only Americans could imagine making a speed challenge out of knapping flint.

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Haha

Thanks for sharing. How did you make your hammers.

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

I bought them from flintknappingsupplis.com!

I have a question? Do people buy them from you ? Or just hubby or you collect them ?

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

I typically collect the material myself if I can!

Bad ass !!

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I thought he was holding a big piece of peanut brittle

@GulfCoastKnapping

7 ай бұрын

😂

Like it

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Thanks John👍🏼

@SteveChildress-cy4wc

Жыл бұрын

Enough said i was just trying to help flintknapers out no worries

Hi im new to flint knapping and was wondering how do you know where to hit abd does it hurt yohr leg when you hit the rock even with the leather pad

@GulfCoastKnapping

15 күн бұрын

I think I just get used to the pain😂

Man i cant use a bopper or my thigh. I bruise up. I can see where and how to hit with my hammer stones better. No way i could do this. Great job.

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Keep at it! But thank you!

@bjellison905

Жыл бұрын

@@GulfCoastKnapping thank you. I definitely will. I can make decent points but my larger stuff breaks which i think ill have to use my thigh for the bigger pieces

eso de hacer hachas de silex tendria que estar prohibido, ya que luego no se sabe si son originales , cuando se encuentra alguna

Do you think they would waste this much flint back then? Do you use the large chips for arrow heads?

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

I use nearly every flake I draw off most of the time👍🏼 and yes I believe they did frequently. That’s why you find flakes littered across fields and streams

@williambrandondavis6897

11 ай бұрын

Waste? The entire planet is made of rock and we have only scratched the surface.

Maybe a dumb question, but what does scraping the chuert with the other Stone do?

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Great question! The stone I use to dull the edges is call an abraider (abraiding the edge). The edges are naturally pretty sharp, and are too fragile to produce a good sized flake, so by rubbing the rocks together, I can dull the edge and produce more force into the stone, removing a larger flake. You can also you a grinding wheel to abraid, or just any old rock or sandstone. Hope this helps!

@Lucas-pv2wn

Жыл бұрын

@@GulfCoastKnapping thanks!!

What is the purpose of filing on the rock edge with the other rock between strikes?

@GulfCoastKnapping

15 күн бұрын

To strengthen the edge! If I don’t it’ll kinda crumble and a flake won’t take off

I'm getting better at it but I keep knapping it down to where I have the one side pretty flat but there is always a big piece of rock on the other side and when I do try to by it winds up being it off anyone have any suggestions Yet

What does the abrader do exactly?

@GulfCoastKnapping

15 күн бұрын

Strengthens the edge to produce a clean flake

years ago there was a knapper went by bow hunter he made a nice clovis in under 10 min dont know what happend to him he quit posting years ago.

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Yes, his videos inspired me to make my videos. Great guy and awesome knapper. Maybe he’ll make more in the future

Warm it up in the sun it will help

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

👍🏼

Vid add looks like your Knapping peanut-brittle....

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

I can almost taste it!

Why don't these modern flint knappers use the same tools as the native Americans did?

@GulfCoastKnapping

15 күн бұрын

We do! But I enjoy using these instead. Personal preference

Bravo ! : i was..on edge ..i suspect quick and dirty is often the way... You wasted 2-3 minutes yammering to the unwashed masses. , thanks ! - ... Is it normal to be hunting deer with a 5-6 inch point ? ...is that intended for bear ? Or ceremonial? And if it ceremonial would they refine the sharp edge ? Or dull it down for safety and osha an stuff...?

@GulfCoastKnapping

15 күн бұрын

Haha. Usually larger points are used as blades and not projectiles and they would reshape regularly

Any questions? I teach for free you bring your chit and i will teach you

@GulfCoastKnapping

Жыл бұрын

Let’s see your work?

I have been knapping flint for 45 yrs i am self tought you people don't have a clue

@SteveChildress-cy4wc

Жыл бұрын

I use my flakes to make birdpoints i

@SteveChildress-cy4wc

Жыл бұрын

He is wasting good flint

@SteveChildress-cy4wc

Жыл бұрын

Yes he is i take a flint that size ican make a adal adal point and anywhere 6 to 10 birdpoints

@SteveChildress-cy4wc

Жыл бұрын

I live in junction texas home of perdanalas flint and rootbeer flint James river flint is the best tho

@jeffwhitfield4173

Жыл бұрын

You're being mighty critical there, Steve. Put your money where your mouth is

lol. Copper tools. RIP! shameful.

@GulfCoastKnapping

Ай бұрын

You make em your way I’ll make em mine

@user-ie1tz5rm8x

Ай бұрын

....knap shaming ? ...is that a thing ? Due to escanaba Michigan , the Indians around here , had all the copper they wanted , ...let's see , your clinging to your stone aged technology - it must be lonely at the top !?! Huh? ... btw I was looking for metiorites - but I found a hammer stone - hard hammer , with lite use an no chips ,,,its tsn to brown - my eye suspected the reds of rusty iron ; it's round to egg shaped slightly small for my hand , and struck 200-400 times...say 3-4 arrowheads worth...let me know if your interested..

Your video thumbnail made me think you were holding a 40mm grenade.

@GulfCoastKnapping

7 ай бұрын

😂

It's not ten minutes, it's obvious you already started on it.

@GulfCoastKnapping

7 ай бұрын

Caught me. I spent 3 extra seconds knocking the spall off a boulder.