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I tried this and the edges are sharper than glass, so you get cuts all over fingers. Of course, this just goes to show our amaturity in this craft :)

​@@daopaleobelieve it or not last summer when I was flintknapping I thought I was gonna die by loss of blood and my determination is what kept me going to keep flintknapping more and more and eventually with enough repetition I started bleeding less and less and the cuts healed almost instantly idk how to describe it but the blood sort of acted as a glue and everytime I got a cut I just kept the skin together and let my injured area cool down by itself after it cooled down the blood glued the cut by itself and I could continue flintknapping after around an hour sometimes more sometimes less Depending on severity of the cut but in the beginning when I just got into flintknapping I used to lose so much blood over a simple cut and it would scar and take weeks to fully heal just serves to show how incredible the human body actually is and how adaptive

This one is in my garage. I have a spot in the backyard for it too! Too many mosquitoes right now though

@@davidianhowe bet you don't go barefoot in there. I'm interested in the tool you use.

You mean like this video? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rNGApLmpqZ2nZ2w.html

You mean like primitive people using copper tools to make stone tools ?.

@@QuantumMechanic_88 Although in the copper/bronze age you had copper/bronze tools. Those were quite expensive and thus less used. So stone tools were still made and used. I believe there were also some copper pressure flakers found. in terms of stone age flint knapper tools, you got hammerstones, antler, teeth to name a few examples.

@QuantumMechanic_88 I've used both natural and modern tools in flintknapping. Stone, antler and bone produce the same results as copper, steel and aluminum. Modern tools are easier to come by for some people and are certainly expeditious. No matter which tools you use, the techniques are the same

You mean like this video? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g7iem6h1nJnFfJs.html

Plennnnnty of research on that! Maybe I can start doing that on my other channel

Not even close to steel tools. Natives would have traded their wives for a steel axe.

@@claycountykillers eeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhh while the effectiveness of steel (which would probably have been iron in the case of trade tools where I’m from) was undeniable I’m sure there where some that was rockin the og chert along side metal especially I the case of obsidian which is (as I’m sure you know) can be waaaaaaaaaay sharper than that of a more metallic blade but yeah other than that you right......

@@blacksnapper7684 sharpness is not necessarily the greatest criteria. Steel tools will literally last a lifetime of use.

My man

While chiseling and knapping are very different processes, I’d imagine a sculptor would have some advantages over those with no stone-working experience. Thinning the tool properly is the most difficult aspect

@@thomash4950 From my experience there's no advantage except maybe in avoiding snapping delicate areas.

Poorly. Sculpting is more like carving wood, you cut into the stone with a chisel and keep any chipping localized. It requires stone you can dig into without cracking it or snapping bits off. The perfect knapping stone would be the worst possible sculpting material.

I got a rock gut. Goknapping.com, tell them I sent you

I would couple it with fire crackling in the background and an indistinc chatter ;)

@@daopaleo could be like Pink Floyd

@@comfortablynumb9342, love them too, bro ;) track could be called "What happened to the flintknappers dream?" :)

Working on that for my main channel :)

I posted this so long ago, and I’m cringing watching it now because I was so bad haha

this made me laugh out loud haha