Thanks for showing the used up and beveled blade! That was awesome to see why some ancient points are beveled so steeply

Thanks for a great video! I loved seeing the old blade comparison with the newer one!

@huntprimitive9918

2 жыл бұрын

thank you very much!

Just got my package of Georgetown from you! You've definitely earned a repeat customer. Haven't even knapped the spalls yet, but I can already tell just by how you spalled them, that they're better than anything I've gotten before. Thanks a ton Ryan!

Man I’m drooling at that beautiful stack of Georgetown behind you, I’m 1000% sure you didn’t pay Knapp-in retail prices for that! Did you get to go to the source and bring home a truckload? I’m going to go look at your website to see if you’ll sell me some now lol.

@rocksnthings8689

2 жыл бұрын

I'm in the same boat! All I can find is freeze cracked...

@huntprimitive9918

2 жыл бұрын

It's definitely tough to get. The good stuff is buried underground. You gotta find someone with access to a mine to be able to get it, which is nearly impossible anymore. They typically only want to deal in bulk orders as well, which is more or less how I am able to find some deals. Lots of hardwork loading and traveling and a big stack of cash typically gets it done.

@piggyslayer1999

2 жыл бұрын

I live about an hour south of georgetown in the uvalde river gravels and every now and then ill hit a nice cobble of georgetown when gathering rock, boy does it make my day when i get lucky and find a few dozen nice cobbles of it

@shanek6582

2 жыл бұрын

@@piggyslayer1999 got any for sale? Lol.

@piggyslayer1999

2 жыл бұрын

@@shanek6582 Thinking about doing some small time stuff in the future, not done it yet. Dont wanna step on ryans toes in the comments neither😁

Dude, lot of chippers would stage a Commando raid for a pile of what's behind you. Nice tutorial. Thanks.

@huntprimitive9918

2 жыл бұрын

haha, yeah I know it. I am glad it is pretty well protected..lol

Mr. Gill casually flexing all his flint

@huntprimitive9918

2 жыл бұрын

haha, it definitely makes a nice backdrop. I actually just added to the stack as well so you'll probably see it again in an upcoming obsidian video

excellent - as always

Thanks for sharing mate.

Very informative video thanks man

love ur vids man

Great video

@huntprimitive9918

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Huntprimitive, you know how you said that the knives would leave cuts on your finger from it having two edges? I find quite the amount of knife artifacts here in VA and how the natives liked making them around here is they would leave or rub the top flat that way you have a finger rest. The finger rests look weird but they are very effective. The rest would be at the front of the blade (most of the time) that way you're relieving pressure on the joint where the piece is hafted. You push down, the handle wants to come up. Hence the finger rest. Think of the way you use a metal knife, more often than not you put a finger on the back of the blade 😀👍I love your videos by the way. Keep em coming you mad lad

@huntprimitive9918

2 жыл бұрын

thanks very much. Yeah I definitely found it important to abrade/dull the areas my fingers are going to be. I can see the benefits of a single edge in some of these scenarios too, but the 2 edges really are handy

Very interesting, thank you!

@huntprimitive9918

2 жыл бұрын

thanks for following along

That pile of Georgetown behind you 😍 Looks like you grabbed some good stuff man!

@huntprimitive9918

2 жыл бұрын

yeah it was a good score. Wait til you see the newest load!

It’s faster than sharpening a steel blade! 😂

@huntprimitive9918

2 жыл бұрын

haha it definitely can be

I've wondered about this here. I've been looking for a big arrow head or knife when I'm out in the woods. I've been want to make a knife from a find. I have found several in camp sites from hundreds of years ago. I made a unique find here awhile back. I know where a camp is no one knows about. I've found a few arrowheads and big broke points. But I found a piece of flint I thought was some tool. I took it and some points to a professor and he told me about 800 to 900 years ago on them. This one I thought was a tool, turned out to be a piece of flint for a flintlock rifle. Soooo! Now it's got me wondering how that flint ended up in that camp site from that long ago. Where I live there is mega flint and old camps from years ago. It is in my medicine bag along with a small arrow head that I found also where I bow hunt. I feel I'm continuing the "hunt" that these indians were doing those years ago..

Is this how u get ur arrowheads scary sharp as well? Trying to get that part down in knapping.

@jimmyrustler8983

2 жыл бұрын

Using antler to finish off an edge will give you a nice sharp edge. It's finer than copper, and will take much smaller flakes off. Think of it as copper being a medium grit, and antler being fine grit.

@huntprimitive9918

2 жыл бұрын

a little bit different technique between the points and blades, but fairly similar. I have a video just on my sharpening technique for points. I don't go as crazy with the knives because the super sharp edge is also a bit more fragile which is fine for a projectile, but not robust enough for repeated knife work. The video I am thinking of might be my notching and sharpening video.

Looking forward to your thoughts on repurposing stone tools

@huntprimitive9918

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the reminder. I definitely want to work up that whole video. I think it would be a neat one

Olá meu amigo gostei muito do seu trabalho like garantido abraço do paquinha pescador KZreadr 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

Hey Ryan, I’ve got a big shopping bag full of wild turkey primaries I’ve been saving for 20 years when I hunt them, could I send them to you and maybe you send me back a few pieces of those Georgetown nodules? Whatever you think is fair in a flat rate box? I’m in East Tennessee but a couple of the turkeys were Osceola from when I lived in Florida. (I actually sorted and threw away all the secondary wing feathers a couple months ago lol, didn’t know anyone could use them).

hey hunt primitive Ryan. first off, great video. very informative. i have a question: ive been looking to get some large fairly flat cobbles like those that were in the background at the beginning. do you sell whole cobbles like that at your store?

@huntprimitive9918

2 жыл бұрын

thank you very much. I don't typically sell whole cobbles, but if someone makes a special request we can typically make it happen without an issue

Excellent tutorial, and a beautiful blade. 👍 A quick question, do you file your pressure flaker points, or pound/cold forge them into a point? I've recently started pounding my copper points, then gently skating an abrader stone over them, and I find they work a lot better, may just be me though.

@huntprimitive9918

2 жыл бұрын

I do both. It just depends on what the tool more or less needs. I usually alternate a bit. thanks very much!

Hello huntprimitive! You've said in the past that you prefer double edge blades. Is that because you have more time in between sharpening, or are there any other reasons you prefer double over single edge?

@jannecas5281

2 жыл бұрын

From my point of view, the single edge stone knife are modern construct, there are no beneficts. Daggers have longer cutting edge, durable blade due to V shape, easier to make.

@huntprimitive9918

2 жыл бұрын

yes for sure. It back really apparent in the Bison butchering video that having the 2 blades was great for doubling your work time.

I was contacted by your channel yesterday from the comments on the bison video that I won a Hoyt carbon RX7. But the channel that did it was only 4 days old and I was not subscribed to it. Wanted to make you aware and see if it was true.

@huntprimitive9918

2 жыл бұрын

it's a scam. thanks for letting me know. I think we got them deleted and blocked properly as of this morning

The second Arrowhead you show at around 7:07 what is that material? Is it Flint?

@theabhorrentchef7226

Жыл бұрын

Georgetown chert. And it’s just a really sharpened knife blade, ready to be touched up into an atlatl point or arrowhead

I try to think of sharpening stone as carving in teeth of a carnivorous beast. Opposite side of the bevel just one fine little pop pop.

Is it possible to make an edge on flint by sanding it instead of knapping

@shanek6582

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t know what you would? If it’s because you don’t have any tools in the forest, you’d need a pretty hard abrasive stone to grind flint, it’s hard!

@jimmyrustler8983

2 жыл бұрын

That's called the peck and grind method, but will only work with certain stone, like slate.

@javiergimenez9621

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimmyrustler8983 I know it, but I was wondering if could be done with flint. But would probably take days to grind

@jimmyrustler8983

2 жыл бұрын

@@javiergimenez9621 Yeah, the piece you'd be grinding it on would need to be very hard, too. Whether you could do it with modern abrasive diamond stones before heat treating it, I dunno. Like you said, it'd take a long time. I have made some slate points in the past, and they're great. I also made a small inuit style knife blade which worked very well for prepping food. It's a very versatile rock. 👍

@huntprimitive9918

2 жыл бұрын

It would definitely take a long time and wouldn't produce nearly as sharp of an edge overall. Chipping is definitely the most efficient method

Do you ever use brass instead of copper in the pressure flaker tips?

@huntprimitive9918

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't no, sorry. Just copper and a little bit of tiny steel nail work

@theabhorrentchef7226

Жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure I remember jack crafty saying that brass is no good. Just too slippery. If that guy says it’s no good I’ll believe him lol. He uses anything and everything that works.

Okay I bought blades but they were dull so I make a tool like the copper one I can sharpen it and makes knife