Making a Knife, the OLD way....

[AJMD429]

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(...before iron, before bronze, before copper...)

https://youtu.be/_zP3jdPR3tw?si=ZSWJYG8ivjOLADkh

I would be so nervous that I would screw it up and get almost done then break it in about 10 pieces with one whack.

[gcs]

Probably happened a lot, there's a place I find spear and arrow heads that I believe was where they were made. Lots of chips and broken and discarded points.
I can almost hear the maker cursing in Algonquin as he chucked the broken ones.....

[Grizz]

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(...before iron, before bronze, before copper...)

https://youtu.be/_zP3jdPR3tw?si=ZSWJYG8ivjOLADkh

I would be so nervous that I would screw it up and get almost done then break it in about 10 pieces with one whack.

good link !!!

it is worth noting that Otzi was killed by a flint point, had a flint knife, AND had a Copper adz/scraper/axe ! Truly a man of his time, five thousand years ago .. .

[wvfarrier]

I hunt with stone arrowheads.

[Bill in Oregon]

I've knapped a few chubby "arraheads" in my time from Oregon and Northern California obsidian (Glass Buttes and Davis Creek), but mostly I have converted perfectly good stone to a bucket of useless chips anointed with "some of me own blood."
Probably the most spectacular stone knives are the "Type 1" daggers from Denmark.

https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowled ... vl-dagger/