Thinning out a Flint Dagger This is how to thin a stone dagger, it basically involves pushing your luck as far as you dare.
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@Toph1018 ай бұрын
Hey Will! My name is Chris and I am from Pennsylvania in America. I am 19 years old and just happened to stumble upon this gem of a channel. After about 2 days of falling down a rabbit hole of flintknapping, I ordered a beginners kit and it just came in today. I made my first dagger today! I am well aware It’s not the greatest thing, but I am proud of it! I just wanted to say thank you for teaching me through a screen and I hope you understand how many people you impact on a daily basis. Thank you for sparking a completely new interest in me!
@Kargoneth8 ай бұрын
Well done, Chris!
@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival8 ай бұрын
Hi Chris your comment fills me with joy cheers mate and good luck with your new adventure into stone
@Toph1018 ай бұрын
@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvivalthank you for sharing your passion with all of us! We are all lucky to see it!
@DormentedTrio8 ай бұрын
It's definitely not unwatchable. Fascinating and calming!
@ramblingrootscamp8 ай бұрын
Stoked for a new video!
@PhilipWright-pw31923 ай бұрын
Mr lord, it is not slow going, it is hypnotically interesting to see the amount of skill and heart that brings out the final product...!
@mikecurtis25858 ай бұрын
Wow amazing work! Always fun to watch! Have a wonderful day!!
@kelvinsparks46518 ай бұрын
Learnt a little! Well I've learnt a lot here Will . Watching you pushing the limits was thoroughly mesmerising to the point I let me tea get cold 😂 .Great results, well done.
@mjbradshaw8 ай бұрын
Happy to see a new upload! Thank you for all of your work and inspiration.
@Kargoneth8 ай бұрын
Nerve-wracking! Dang it, Will! You smacking that edge at 29:00 had me wincing!
@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival8 ай бұрын
😆🤞🙏
@robertjoyce56298 ай бұрын
Watching from Washington State, US. Thanks for the wonderful and detailed videos of your flint knapping skills and procedures. They are fascinating to behold. Merry Christmas.
@paulfreeman230008 ай бұрын
Fantastic, thin and deadly Thanks Will. Solutrean.
@peterappleton52138 ай бұрын
Another masterpiece mate well done, All hail Will Lord our tribe leader
@polehenge82372 ай бұрын
Very therapeutic content WIll. Beautiful craftsmanship.
@MattSmith181258 ай бұрын
I enjoy this level of detail as I'm sure others do to. I honestly would watch a video of the entire process quite frankly. Just food for thought. Thanks for all the great content.
@nurmihusa77808 ай бұрын
The quiet snap, scratch, ting of the process seems to tickle a deep and ancient memory. How many generations of ancestors intimately knew and relied upon the mastery of those subtle sounds? Just as we react instinctively today to the rumble of a great cat or the slither of a snake, these sounds awaken something fine in our deep unconscious. Thank you!
@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival8 ай бұрын
Thank you beautiful comment
@suehouston79084 ай бұрын
Love this! You are AMAZING Will Lord! Thank you so much for your videos and teachings!
@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival3 ай бұрын
Ah thanks Sue 😎👍
@madsingh8 ай бұрын
Wonderful job Will
@BryanKoenig3798 ай бұрын
Very cool trick getting that henge to cone off. Awesome video man thank you
@Ratel90Gunner8 ай бұрын
Beautiful work as always!
@67dirtybird8 ай бұрын
I enjoy the step by step, and what your thinking with each challenge you meet on the stone. It’s valuable to me as a knapper. Thank you.
@MikaelHc18 ай бұрын
Beautiful work Will:)
@aaroncrimmons18 ай бұрын
Here right after upload LOVE ITTTTT
@Nallebjorn17 ай бұрын
You are very talented and I am jealous of your talent, I myself love crafts like yours and have tried on a few occasions to shape flint but it is extremely difficult. It is mesmerizing to watch you work to shape flint into such beautiful objects.
@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival7 ай бұрын
Thanks mate just a quick tip hit it harder you will find it worth it 👍😎
@philipsederstrom9128 ай бұрын
Hi Will, Just want to thank you for the incredible work you put into this channel! Knapping has been a mystery to me ever since I was a child. Your videos and the experiences you so genereously share with the world have encouraged me to start. I've decided to make my own antler tools and begin my journey when the snow melts next year. I wish you all the best and a happy and inspiring new year! Cheers!
@redsteadyon8 ай бұрын
Wow that's REALLY slender, ACE....
@SewingBoxDesigns8 ай бұрын
Lovely piece! Ages ago in elementary school I saw Clovis blade line diagrams in an old history book, and the black and white photos, and I've been curious ever since. Thank you for this fascinating work you're doing.
@JpRuane-vi2ep7 ай бұрын
How you make stuff is just amazing love the vids
@mark.guitar8 ай бұрын
Lovely video mate!
@RatsAndFunTV8 ай бұрын
Very nice.
@johnfisk8117 ай бұрын
So useful to see it in real time which helps learning how to manage events. Thank you. Trivial but the camera takes a few moments to refocus when you hold up the stone. It might be better to lift it and hold it still briefly while you speak.
@samcummings98958 ай бұрын
Excellent,
@jimmynellis33567 ай бұрын
Very nice to watch, thanks Will.
@privateerwoodworksnmore8 ай бұрын
Thank you as always
@whitedruid21228 ай бұрын
Good job brother
@el_wumberino8 ай бұрын
Very watchable, mate!
@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival8 ай бұрын
Cheers mate
@Earthenfist8 ай бұрын
Something I'd love to see more of would be woodworking with stone tools. Like, how are you making the handles that you put on, or how would you cut a notch into a beam?
@allanculbard1658 ай бұрын
Agreed that would float my boat.
@docv737 ай бұрын
You should check out Primitive Archery (Ryan Gill) on KZfaq. He does a lot of stuff using stone tools to make other tools and wood work. He has a video where he makes a primitive bow, using nothing but stoneage tools. He also hunts with the stuff he makes, and has even worked with a couple colleges doing hunts on everything from pigs, to deer, and even bison, using all primitive equipment he makes. They then process the whole animal, using stoneage tools. They put the hunts together as documentaries, and the college uses them to study the effects on the stoneage tools (dulling, chipping, breaking, losing blades, and using performs on site to make additional tools), and the marks left on the animal parts (cut marks on bone). It helps the archeologists from the colleges interpret the things they find at lithic archeological sites. Very interesting stuff, and supplements the stuff Will Lord does, quite well.
@artyzartifacts97998 ай бұрын
As much as I hate hinges, part of what makes flint knapping fun for me is problem solving my way around them. I would get bored really fast if my plan with the stone always went the way i expected. Oddly enough it applies to many things in life. Still frustrating as heck though.
@lancemcilwainoutcastmetald53988 ай бұрын
Nice dadder
@whitedruid21228 ай бұрын
I'm going to try my chances with limestone, that's all we have here.
@NeilEvans-xq8ik8 ай бұрын
Try your local pet store for some big chunks of glass. People buy them as decorations for their fish tanks. It's not as hard as flint but it's a similar material. Good to practice on, I think. Cheap as chips , too.
@Kargoneth8 ай бұрын
Yes. Glass is a widely-available material and analogous to obsidian. Note however, that glass, like obsidian, is a less forgiving material than chert and flint. Expect a steeper learning curve. If you can master glass knapping, then chert and flint should be even easier.
@gustavchambert70728 ай бұрын
Hi Will! I was wondering: I'm tempted to try my hand at knapping, but I don't have ready access to deer antler. Can I make a similar soft hammer out of wood? And if so, what sort of qualities would you say I should look for? Do I go for hardwood? Do I want a dense, heavy wood or a something lighter? Thoughts?
@Kargoneth8 ай бұрын
Well, you could use different types of woods and have multiple types of flakers. I suspect that you would want some kind of hard-wearing, dense wood. The head should probably be formed from a knot or a fork, as these are often sturdy.
@Kargoneth8 ай бұрын
Anlther idea: A pet store may have antler sections sold as chew toys for dogs.
@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival8 ай бұрын
Box wood is good mate it’s very dense and hard but also eBay is a good place to look for antler
@gustavchambert70728 ай бұрын
@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival so hardwoods are the way to go? Got it. I was thinking about juniper. I have decent access to that, and it's both hard and dense, but it's also a bit easier to carve than something like oak or boxwood, and I was worried that might be an issue over time.
@allanculbard1658 ай бұрын
Fantastic skill Will, i have a couple of questions if you have the time. Do you think most hunters of this period would make their own tools or would they trade with a specialist flint napper? So would a chap with your skills be in high demand or do you think it would've been a commonplace skill back then? Thanks in advance, keep teaching us mate, best wishes, Allan.
@docv737 ай бұрын
A little of both. It's believed most people had at least basic knapping skills. At kill sites, where animals were processed down after a hunt, there is lots of evidence of tools being made on site, while processing the animal. It's believed to be to replace or repair broken and lost tools that happens during the processing. But, there are also locations, including a really big one in Ethiopia, where there is evidence of tools being mass produced, almost like a factory type setting, where there might be several knappers just sitting around producing points and blades. A final note, there is evidence, and direct history from early North American contact, that shows that bifaces and preforms were sometimes carried around by individuals and traded like currency. If you aren't familiar, a preform would be what the blade on this video was when it started. An unfinished point, but far enough along to be identified as a point. A biface would be the step before this, where a spall has been worked to thin it, but hasn't been given a definitive shape yet, and still needs thinned. I know I wasn't the one you asked, but I knap too, and thought I could help you out by answering that for you. I hope you don't mind.
@stooartbabay8 ай бұрын
Have you ever tried heating a big chunk of flint in a fire, then trying to shape a blade etc from it days later after it has cooled? I would be very interested in seeing if the flint characteristics change due to it being heated. Thanks :)
@porkchop803scwilliams97 ай бұрын
Will ,how much is one of your hand made knives?
@porkchop803scwilliams97 ай бұрын
They are very beautiful
@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival7 ай бұрын
Sorry buddy I don’t currently make them for sale
@porkchop803scwilliams97 ай бұрын
@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival ok they are like art work ,would love to have one one day 💗
@God-yi9bd8 ай бұрын
There's no sound
@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival8 ай бұрын
There is mate 😂
@God-yi9bd8 ай бұрын
@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival awesome 😎 keep up the great work will love the videos
@God-yi9bd8 ай бұрын
@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival was probably just my crap phone 🤣
@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival8 ай бұрын
@@God-yi9bd 😂😂😂 I was going to say turn the volume up
@God-yi9bd8 ай бұрын
@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival 🤣🤣 maybe it's time for a new phone or hearing aids maybe both 🤣
@domytar53958 ай бұрын
Hello hello just wonder if you could tell me how long this blade would stay sharp. Let’s say if you only used it to cut deer meat 🥩 etc. Thanks.
@NeilEvans-xq8ik8 ай бұрын
They can be resharpened.
@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival8 ай бұрын
It doesn’t matter if you can make it mate you just re knapp the edge
@domytar53958 ай бұрын
Thankyou very much for replying. I think I could make one maybe one day but we don’t have much flint laying arrowed in Blackpool. Also I think you dad is a expert knapper cheers.