knapping flint

[wesw]

I spent about an hour last night watching youtube videos of flint knapping.

I watches this fellow, will lord, spend 40 minutes working on a Danish dagger, then it broke..., darn.

I need some flint and antler....

it looks like something I would be good at.....

I wonder if there is a market for such things.....

no rocks around here..., except in my head. I have a few pounding/grinding stones, and a large perfectly balanced stone that appears to be a large maul for driving wooden stakes, that would have had a haft attached to it, that I have found locally. and one rock that is exactly what he used for a hammer stone/abrasive stone.

[Big RR]

You might try this: http://www.neolithics.com/flintknapping-classes-2013-1/

There are similar sites if you google them.

[kmccune]

There is sort of a market for these things , you can make imitation points and probably flint knives and sell them at craft shows ,I would imagine obsidian would make a better point or knife then flint ,a lot of the flint I find isnt very hard ,you need something that fractures correctly and has some toughness .Chalk deposits are said to have good flint inclusions .

[wesw]

I have seen some awesome local collections of local native stonework

the variety of points and stone types was wide. some of them were obviously ceremonial as they were so beautiful.

I remember one point in particular that was almost transparent.

I don t remember if it was knapped or ground.....

[liberty]

Knapping flint is part of the heritage of my people. I would like it to be taught to some extent in the school that my kids attend. True being able produce a stone point would have no practical value these days, but it would be away to celebrating the heritage of our people, our roots, and demonstrate to my people where they come from and the fact there is no limit to where they can go.

Perhaps your family only goes back three or four generations, but mine goes back tens of thousands of years. Hell, I am even proud of my Neanderthal ancestors.

[wesw]

liberty, you are just too much sometimes.

all of our ancestors knapped flint. all of our ancestors date back to the beginning of humanity, where ever and what ever that was.

and the Africans without Neanderthal DNA have other DNA s, such as the type that the bushmen of the kalihari carry in higher percentages than others.

we are all mongrels and / or halfbreeds

[MajGenl.Meade]

Knapping flint is part of the heritage of my people. I would like it to be taught to some extent in the school that my kids attend...

Perhaps your family only goes back three or four generations, but mine goes back tens of thousands of years. Hell, I am even proud of my Neanderthal ancestors.

What twaddle! All of human ancestry goes back to the same roots - people who bashed rocks into useful shapes and crapped on the ground. There's not one possible reason for "pride" in any of that common experience that is so remote as to make a claim of "heritage" nothing but meaningless drivel. Your family goes back tens of thousands of years... what a baseless claim (other than the above).

[wesw]

can you take your white pride thing back to your white pride thread?

I m trying to talk about pretty rocks over here.....

I like rocks. sometimes I watch the jewely channel sometimes just to see the pretty rocks. only if they are showing natural stones tho, not synthetic crap.

holly caught me watching the jewelry channel a couple of years ago and was like..., "what are you doing"?

I had to explain that I liked to look at the pretty rocks....

strangely enough that seemed to make sense to her......

I don t watch it often, but it the girls think it s funny when they catch me lingering on the pretty rocks....

[liberty]

liberty, you are just too much sometimes.

Yea that’s right and that is the way I like it; no grit on my tongue from licking politically correct boots.

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we are all mongrels and / or halfbreeds

That is true except for the Yankees of New England. According to the book USA DNA the honkeys there are the most lily-white in the country.

[liberty]

Knapping flint is part of the heritage of my people. I would like it to be taught to some extent in the school that my kids attend...

Perhaps your family only goes back three or four generations, but mine goes back tens of thousands of years. Hell, I am even proud of my Neanderthal ancestors.

What twaddle! All of human ancestry goes back to the same roots - people who bashed rocks into useful shapes and crapped on the ground. There's not one possible reason for "pride" in any of that common experience that is so remote as to make a claim of "heritage" nothing but meaningless drivel. Your family goes back tens of thousands of years... what a baseless claim (other than the above).

What are you talking about? I was just channeling my distant uncle Ug just other day….Don’t take life so serious you old grouch.

And my heritage is whatever I say it is. Is that not how self-identification works?

[Joe Guy]

liberty's great great grandfather, liberty jones

[wesw]

james brown.

I said ..., James Brown!

james brown was a hero after dr king was killed.

[liberty]

[quote="Joe Guy"]

liberty's great great grandfather, liberty jones

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It could be. Checkout the results in USA DNA.

[Bicycle Bill]

Knapping flint is part of the heritage of my people. I would like it to be taught to some extent in the school that my kids attend...

Perhaps your family only goes back three or four generations, but mine goes back tens of thousands of years. Hell, I am even proud of my Neanderthal ancestors.

What twaddle! All of human ancestry goes back to the same roots - people who bashed rocks into useful shapes and crapped on the ground. There's not one possible reason for "pride" in any of that common experience that is so remote as to make a claim of "heritage" nothing but meaningless drivel. Your family goes back tens of thousands of years... what a baseless claim (other than the above).

What are you talking about? I was just channeling my distant uncle Ug just other day….Don’t take life so serious you old grouch.

And my heritage is whatever I say it is. Is that not how self-identification works?

Now tell the truth.  You were found on a doorstep, wrapped in a blanket and lying in a laundry basket.
And the only reason your momma took you in was because she needed the basket.

-"BB"-

[wesw]

nah, it was a papyrus basket floating down the nile.

he grew up to lead his people to the promised steppes of Eurasia.

well first he led them to Mongolia, but it was so boring there that they decided to conquer Eurasia.

[liberty]

nah, it was a papyrus basket floating down the nile.

he grew up to lead his people to the promised steppes of Eurasia.

well first he led them to Mongolia, but it was so boring there that they decided to conquer Eurasia.

I thought you wanted to keep this thread about pretty rocks otherwise I would happy to tell you about the continent of Eurasia and the uniqueness of the Eurasian steppes.

[Gob]

Why do you want to sleep in Michael Moore's hometown?

[wesw]

nah lib, I knew as soon as I posted that that it was wrong.

thread will wander where it will....

it will meander thru the meadows....

creating new channels thru the very earth.

so go man...

mount your sturdy pony and string your sturdy bow.

tell me about the steppes....

[liberty]

Why do you want to sleep in Michael Moore's hometown?

Sorry Gob I don’t have clue what you talking about. I will Google Moore and see what I can.

[Bicycle Bill]

Why do you want to sleep in Michael Moore's hometown?

Sorry Gob I don’t have clue what you talking about. I will Google Moore and see what I can.

liberty, I believe Moore is originally from Flint, MI; remember, he made his reputation on "Roger and Me", the documentary about the decline of Flint when GM pulled out — and 'knapping' (without the 'k') refers to sleeping.

-"BB"-