You don’t need to defend the techniques you choose to use. Just do you, and let the haters hate 🤙🤙

@LuisRamirez-rn8yi

4 жыл бұрын

Chad Snowball great now i have that song stuck in my head

They would've used a diamond saw if they had it,trust me.

@k1j2f30

10 ай бұрын

I don't think so, they obviously didn't need to! No sense making something more complicated and difficult than necessary.

@nelsonx5326

2 ай бұрын

And a machine gun and a corn popper.

Billy, you and I have come a long way. You were the first one to explain chasing a growth ring. You were also the one to explain what that first pice of shed was really for. I feel like this lesson is one of mastery. And I think I'm ready to step up and drop some money on some dichro and opal! Just wanted to say thanks, it has changed me forever!

@billyberger2462

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!! Really glad I've influenced your path in the primitive ways.

Native Americans adopted new technology faster than a sponge soaks up water. The want for people to do things the old way, is good for preserving historical knowledge, but not necessary for all. I do both. Thanks Billy.

The fact that you didn't snap that agate point while working it on a leather pad is proof of your skillz! Beautiful work dude!

Billy boy we love ur videos never stop.

@primitivepathways

4 жыл бұрын

I don't ever plan on stopping! Thanks so much for your kind words.

Just stunning! Always a pleasure to see an artist at work :)

Beautiful and to the point

Brilliant idea! That's beautiful work!

I am Mi'kmaw. My ancestors were smart people and when a new easier way was found or taught to do something they adopted it. I enjoyed they video very much and if I still used stone tiped arrows I would use your method with one exception. I would just cut and sharpen the stone. Being a blacksmith and knifemaker I forge my own steel points. They are very effective and long lasting. I agree with the comment that you don't need to make excuses.

@SenorTucano

4 жыл бұрын

kagitaka tokahe I suspect the serrated edges make the points more effective

Amazingly beautiful.

What a gallery at the end of your presentation! Gorgeous points! I was taught Lapidary as an 18 year old and loved it. I've been knapping now for about 2 years. I love it even more! The movie Alpha set me off. Your combining the two arts is 21st Century Knapping. Nothing wrong with it when honest about it. Always enjoy your vids. Beste

Insane work you showed of at the end wow

Thank you for this video Billy! Love these video's from you🤙. You were the very first person I ever saw on youtube (in 2015), that peaked my interest in primitive living skills.

Stunning 😀

Wow! Fantastic work!

Every knapper uses some mixture of traditional and modern tools/techniques, it's the nature of the craft. The purists can cry all they want, those are some beautiful points! Especially on the more artistic side of knapping, it's the quality of the finished product that matters, the techniques are a personal choice of the artist. Great video!

SO awesome to see you back, Billy. Missed ya! 💪

Wow very delicate and beautiful

I’ve tried flint napping but I have been unsuccessful. I’ve been trying to do it with the glass bottoms but they come out like fat arrowheads lol. You make it seem so easy to send flakes across the surface. Love your videos keep up with the great content!!

@billyberger2462

4 жыл бұрын

Think I'll make a video showing how to make thin points just to help you out. Thanks for the video idea!

@Jesus-gz8hn

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks that would really help.

@franslangendonk6510

4 жыл бұрын

Keep trying. Don't give up. Bottle Bottoms are not easy. Bottle Bottoms present the same challenges as natural flakes and spalls. Once you've succeeded with your first, it's a breakthrough to a higher level. May I suggest Slab Preforms? Buy a few 3" triangular slabs. Try a rock vendor like Neolithics.com or Kentucky Flintworks. You can get 10 for $15. One thing that helped immensely but is a $70 investment is a Knapping Jig. It helps you find the right angle to clear the faces of your preform. It helps with precision and learning.

Beautiful work

Every one, STUNNING!

I never tire of watching these videos ,exquisite work

Bruce Lee probably would've embraced all technologies old and new, then selected the best from them all for use in a given situation. Awesome video.

She is a beauty,so nice and I like your work.

Thank you for this Billy. I have lapidary equipment and I am going to try some of this. Stay safe my friend.

incredible!!!

GIANT POINT, holy hell i could never imagin makin one that big

I like that point,I think it is beautiful.

Damn Billy you’ve outdone yourself! I think I see a Clovis coming out of one of those. Great content as always

Watched it without blink of eye, love it definitely will try it. Thanks . ☺

They look Awesome 🖖 👍

Inspiring Billy, thanks for showing new technology in this ancient art. Thanks for sharing your time and talent! It is very appreciated! KANSAS

@primitivepathways

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

Great video big dog keep it up

Very delicate work,you have to think about you are doing.

Very pretty points, you got skills brother.

Thnxs for uploading and sharing 👍🏻🇺🇸

Cool video. I do a lot of Lapidary work and this looks like it would be fun.

You are correct in saying their exsquisit!

Can't wait to see more videos.

Very good to learn. I want to make a number of like sized obsidian points to hunt with. I think this is the best option and not so wasteful. It's a long way to get more.

This video is underrated. couldn't find anyone else doing this and I have been looking for using technology on flint rocks. i hope to see a dagger made this way

Awesome video. Ishi was a master, he was able to get some long and thin screamers. He would be proud of your work.

Nice vid

absolutely superb work and the bilateral delicate symmetry makes my brain glow. I would like to share some of my art with you sometime. I describe it as visual representations of a pheromone based hallucinogenic conveying family crests of advanced insect clans of Aristarchus'

amazing

Not historical flintknapping in the purist respect, however it is another artform. Very beautiful points!

What's a man gotta do for you to send a signed head that you've made?

Beautiful points, awesome work as always

@primitivepathways

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

WOW!!! People who talk crap obviously haven't seen all your videos. I have & m thankful for all the knowledge you've shared. I watched you knap the tiny point fully by hand n it was kewl, but these my brother are truly amazing. I m a First Nations man of the Delaware, or in our toung, "Lenape", people and love to learn all things the greed of the whites tried to destroy. Would love to watch the video on whitewood bows you guys put together. And more than anything would love to be a part of what y'all are doing. It would be a great pleasure & honor to meet the three of you & be able to pick y'all's brains. My first bow was black locust n I thank you for everything you've shared to make it possible. Wanishi & Yahweh's blessings to you all

I've followed a lot of knappers, and have cut stone for jewelry. I actually never gave it any thought, but the potential is boundless, Thank you...

I've tried this with cheaper quality diamond saws, maybe too impatiently. All cut edges seemed to be highly abraded or fracked, so grainy and chunky that the entire piece was un-knappable. I had little trouble knapping with identical unground pieces. I've been keeping an eye out for better quality diamond wheel/lapidary grinder wheels like yours. Glad to see you've successfully done this before spending the $ on lap. quality discs.

I was able to purchase a beautiful knife with an exquisite knapped tiger eye obsidian 6" blade at the Crow Fair in Montana .. I suspect that it was from a cut blank because it's perfectly parallel thickness at about 5/16" and the flutes run all the way across its 2" width ... and the incredibly low price i payed for such a work of art .. Thank you Billy, I am always in awe of skills turned all the way into art

"Artistic license" 👍🏻😉

Cool! Where would one buy a small saw like that?

Beautiful arrowheads! How do they get attached to shafts for hunting?

Wow brother! You did friggin’ unbelievable work here. I’m very very impressed and have thought of trying lapidary tools on nice chert but never tried it. Man, you’ve great success it seems to make all those mind blowing points, can I ask how many have failed ? Not knocking you at all, just curious as to your success rate. Great video and you got a thumbs up and sun new buddy!!!

Most of the complaints about lapidary knapping come from collectors, and understandably so, due to the fact that many lapidary knappers don't disclaim how they make their points when they list them for sale. Lapidary points don't hold the same value as points made with traditional methods to most collectors. To each their own, as long as you are upfront about it.

@twintwo1429

2 жыл бұрын

If you can't prove the difference, what is the difference? If you can't tell the difference, then you should never buy one.

@pyrosketcher1490

2 жыл бұрын

This comment just makes no sense. By the logic of lapidary points being worth less, it would also stand to reason that points made with copper tools are worth less than those made with abo tools. These are just two different approaches to the same goal.

Nice

Hey billy could u do another arrow quiver video or show to sinew back bows

Those are stunning. I think it would be a hoot to take a few of those beauties and scatter them randomly in a field or dry creek bed where children could find them. Doesn't matter if they never know the truth, the joy of discovery and watching kids get excited would be worth it. I found a few arrowheads as a kid but haven't hunted in years but I have a strong interest in the hobby. I was looking at some beauties that others have posted on YT and it occurred to me that some of those points are so pretty and delicate that I began to think that they may have been made by women. We tend to think that men, with nothing to do all day but hunt or sit around and watch other people work, were probably the ones who made tools and weapons and to some degree that may be true. But, Native American women were (and still are, of course) consummate artists in pottery and other aspects of art and there is no reason to dismiss the idea that some of the loveliest and articulate work on arrow heads was likely completed by women.

Can you make a video on how to make a point out of quartz?

Where did you get those diamond belts for the wheels on the grinder?

@lesliehunt2117

4 жыл бұрын

Try Rio Grande Supply in new mexico.

Where did you get those stones??

That beautiful material,where can it be found?

@primitivepathways

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of that material is agate from Brazil, but I have all kinds of stone that I pick up/buy from various folks who sell it. You can buy agate slabs and rock and gem shows and they have some really pretty stuff there. That's a great place to look.

Hi Billy, did you heat treat that agate?

@primitivepathways

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I did but I didn't get it hot enough so it was still a bit grainy tough. I cooked it again and took some of the other pieces to a higher temperature and it glassed up a lot more. It worked a lot better after I cooked it a 2nd time.

If I find a way to make these beautiful points with a saw I will do it and be proud of the work I finished.I collected the real thing for years,I had hundreds of them witch I lost I a divorce.I used to sip wine and look at my collection,it was beautiful.

@primitivepathways

3 жыл бұрын

So sorry to hear about you losing all your points in that divorce. I've seen too many good men chopped in half by family courts led by a vindictive woman. That's one of the many reasons why I'll never get married. There are no benefits to a man nowadays unfortunately.

@signaturerush

2 жыл бұрын

Man, she took your arrowheads? That is brutal. I’ve never heard anything like that. I hope you find some more arrowheads man.

I tried flaking those Brazilian agate and I couldn’t get a good concoidal fracture, do you heat treat them or something?

@primitivepathways

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah you have to heat treat it. Raw brazillian agate is so grainy and tough that it's not really usable for making arrowheads. But when it's cooked, it becomes very glassy, pretty, and it works MUCH better, like high quality flint.

@chucklearnslithics3751

4 жыл бұрын

@@primitivepathways I've never had much luck heat treating them. I have a kiln. What temp and time is working for you?

@shanek6582

4 жыл бұрын

Chuck Learns Lithics, yes, I’d also love to know the temp and time, thank you sir.

Im pinoy if ever goong to make rock glass arrow heads ill probably will follow you style make many blanks possible and knap napp them at home

My got a big beef bone from the pet store and made 9 bone arrow head's he and his 2 kids got 3 deer 🏹🏹🏹🦌🦌🦌

I've got about 20 lbs of Brazilian agate ,and it is tuff even on a good day

Ooooh I want one of those does that make me seem weird.

Do you sell ground preforms?

Jewelry.

Where the saw and grinder both lapidary brand? Also how much did each cost? Where is a good place to purchase these machines? All the sources I have found are to expensive or are more/bigger than necessary.

Can I have one of those beautiful points

Bill, you’ve really got to put a workbench in your garage, or a shed.

@primitivepathways

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I know. The thing is, I like to be able to take the saw and grinder outside because they are kinda messy.

I also can do percussion but I have been doing more slabs at the rate some of these guy’s taking a boulder and coming out with a 6 inch point material will start to get hard to find 😂

Dude I build your bow, but you don't have a video on bowstring

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You could have bought the chiefs horse with some of these bad boys.

My friend,I think that if you are going to make or flake points,you should know the many ways to create such points.You can always say if the American Indians could have found easyer ways to create these points,I am sure they would have turned tword these more productive ways.

My brother gave me a blue agate before he died now I know why.

Nothing at all wrong about 'cheating' with a diamond wheel!

But they would have used it if they had had it

This is how I got started. Here is the funny thing flake over grind IS an ancient technique. Egyptians did it for flint knives and so did the Danish dagger makers.

Nobody think that you are only using modern technology to make arrowheads we all know your the master at flintknapoing

Can't run with the big dogs... stay on the porch.

@primitivepathways

2 жыл бұрын

That's where I do my best work!

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I’m sorry Billy, but you are simply not pure enough. 😢

@citizen762

4 жыл бұрын

You’ll have start marking a date on these because otherwise 1000 years from now archaeologists will be teaching about a unique culture of secret primitive stone tool artisans from the Georgia region whose work exceeded all in the known world. 😁

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