After seeing this video and being frustrated trying to Knapp glass bottle bottoms with little to no real success and close to 100 pieces that ended up breaking in half, I went to the local dollar store and picked up a thick bottom cheep plate. I broke it and was left with some nice big flat pieces. I do have a few pieces of some nice chert, but I’m a beginner and don’t really trust myself yet. I’ve found that dinner plates have been a lifesaver in teaching me how to properly build my platforms and thin pieces out better. I’ve been able to make some nice points with flake scars traveling at least 85 percent of the surface. Although not perfect the broken plate method has been a HUGE help, especially to a beginner knapper like me who has limited access to nice material. Thank you for this video as it has helped me grow in the hobby and learn more and more every day, building my technique and skill as I go.

Dang - well done and I bet your not even in trouble now for breaking the dish because a porcelain arrowhead is way cooler than a porcelain dish! thanks for the video!

Wow! Truly transfixing to watch. It's like watching a time served caveman--flintknapper. I've dabbled with knapping and whittling as a youth, to understand the _Old Ways_ and it's refreshing to see a _Master_ of flintknapping at work in these modern times - especially using materials other than flint. Subbed!

I took about half of a broken small ceramic saucer and knapped out a curved blade knife. Used the homemade ceramic knife while skinning and cutting up a deer and it did a very good job. Was amazed at it's sharpness as I easily separated the hide, fat, and tissue from the muscle. The saucer knife did a good job in cutting up the meat into stew meat chunks, too.

Your craftwork is wonderful ( Flintknapping glass, stone and Porcelain ) !!!! Currently I am building my first stone knife with the help of your video. My Congratulations ! Best regards. Jorge. ARGENTINA

I'm just getting into knapping with some bottle bottoms and a 4 inch steel nail.....There is something that is extremely satisfying about watching someone who knows what they are doing make a tip. Your videos are helping me out tremendously! Thank you for that!

ok you're officially awesome, definitely following this channel

Absolutely love this video, as I have access to plenty of porcelain, great as usual mate, thanks 🙏🏻 p.s please don’t worry about time on the videos, I could sit and watch and listen to you doing that all night it’s so interesting and therapeutic

love your work with other material it shows many ways that you can make a very nice point out of what ever you may have available and in todays times that may prove valuable beyond belief keep posting

Hi jack sorry I’ve not been watching your videos lately but I’ve been having some serious medical problems, anyway I’m back now and re discovering how great and inspiring they are, thank you so much and God bless you

Oops, broke another plate. Driving through Tennessee years ago my brother thought I was crazy when I asked him to stop on the side of a country road to pick up a lid off a old toilet seat! John’s glass!!

Interesting...maybe I'll explore other materials to knap from here on out. Thanks for the inspiration!

Very interesting working the piece of porcelain. Great video to watch. Nice looking point from a piece of plate.

Ive found the better quality china, the better the flakes. Makes breaking dishing not so sad now.😄

Dang you make this look so easy young fella, and it is not. Thx for vid.

the weed man uses the same zip locks as you lol

That's one hell of a percussion wave at the beginning. You need to make one with that stamp left in tact. Especially the microwave and oven safe. Skewer your rabbit on it and cook it over the fire.

Thank you Jack. I am not a knapper so it was hard for me to understand. I have been trying to find some flint or chert and give it a try. It looks like a very interesting hobby.

Native American Indians made things out of fired clay. Why didn't they make fired clay arrow and spear points?

well im not about to attempt china for my first attempt...so i went out to home depot..for a glass block..wish me success..you guys are am8zng

Excellent! Hugs from Brazil!

I thougt porcelaine was see thru. This looks like fine white earthenware

Excellent video!

On a step fracture or where your want to run a flake across,....where you want the plate ruffles to disappear use the amber gorilla glue. Try to do the fulsome flutes,..... take some clay roll it in the shape of your flute put a thin layer of glue in the flute dam and put it in the microwave till you see it boiling,.... about 3 seconds,.... stop,... and in about a minute you will hear a pop and the material is removed. Try it at your own risk,..... it puts holes in Corelle plates,........it pulls chunks out of granite. Boiling it activates it,....it might work in your application as well.

nice, this really is a lesson to people who cant find good natural material and are tired of glass

you had a lot of pre-cast flake scars on that one

Peen the bottom of the bit to give it more friction

I want to try iron slag. I live near a very old iron mine and there is TONS of this blue slag and I'm thinking about trying to make something out of it.

Oh how I wish I could send you a photo of my first attempt at this 😢

Please forgive me if this is a silly question but what are you holding the knapping rod on how are you holding it? When I attempt to hold it under my leg it just falls down,

love real porcelain. makes wonderful points

it looks like you need three hands, one for the glass, one for the chipper and one for the hammer thing

Amazing work. Since some of your arrowheads remind me of fish. I was wondering if anyone ever made fishing lures like this?

Try the glass that is made when they use thermite to join rails on railroads. Just walk around on the edge of the railroad and you can find it.

Do you have any videos on how you make your knapping tools and the variety of tools you should have? The method you use of striking the knapping tool with a mallet affords so much more control.

I am a tin knocker I've made arrowheads out of sheet metal that works good didn't bend as much or broke off but all in all pair of tinsnips 22 gauge sheet-metal you have arrowhead🕶"

Preliminary thinning flakes?

Hi Jack, incredible craftsmanship there, do you think this kind of arrowheads are capable of taking big game ?

NICE! How durable would you say something like this would be? I live in AZ, and in hiking I've found broken "miner's china" (totally plain but solid white crockery sold by the mine stores to the workers back in the 1800s) pieces pretty often, and once or twice I've found scatters of what looked like flaking debris. So I've wondered-- do you know if this was actually done by any of the tribes in my area (O'odham, Apache and Jocome mostly back then) in the 1800s or earlier?

It looks like you must have three hands. How are you holding that white tool while hitting it with that stick??????

Hello! Do you think limestone like the one they use to make the traditional pavements in Portugal would be suitable? Thank you! Trying to put together my first tools eheheh

How have you got your copper knapper held on your leg please ???? Hitting it seems a lot more accurate and safer . Whats the technique???? Thanks

how are you hold the copper point. your left hand hold plate. right got wooden better. copper hammer look swing on henge.

I would have snapped the point off 49 times during this video and shot myself in the head (just kidding silly). Good job fella.

What happened to the end of the vid? It cut off short!

I wanna try this

to long of a video edit some stuff

No thank you. To my mind, once you are using metal tools to knap stone tools, you are missing the entire point. Thumbs down.