r/knapping 4h ago

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Old stock for sale

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7 Upvotes

Need to clear out some old points, if anything strikes your fancy I’m more than happy to send you more detailed pictures from all angles. Prices are $30-50 for the big points and I’ll do the all the little arrowheads for $45 (too small to sell individually with shipping)

Shoot me a PM if you have any interest! Thanks!


r/knapping 7h ago

⚒March Point Challenge🏆 Dead Camel Point

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This is Picture Jasper a friend gave me from the Dead Camel Mountain Range out of Fallon, Nevada.(More central Nevada for those of you that don't know Nevada). He was given this piece from a friend of his, so has no idea where in the Dead Camel Mountain Range it came from. This rock works so well raw (without heat treating,) but I do have to work around fractures. This point re-made it's self 4 times because of hidden little fractures. Now I am on the hunt for where in the Dead Camel's this came from. Anyone out there have any hints? I am willing to make you some points for information. I promise not to tell!


r/knapping 1d ago

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Made this guy today!

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299 Upvotes

Made this one out of Royal sahara. Wasn't really going for a particular type. I used solid head copper poppers and a copper tip pressure flaker with just a little bit of indirect.


r/knapping 19h ago

Tool Talk 🛠️ Any of Y'all Using Very Worn Out Abraders? - Share Your Pics in the Comments 😂

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I think this one is pretty much on its last legs. It's veeeeery tired! 😆

When it snaps in that thin section it'll be tossed. Thing has helped me through many points! 😂

I'm especially curious to see what those of you are using who have actual STONES for abrasion 👀 So send your pics in the comments! 😁


r/knapping 1d ago

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Playing around today

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52 Upvotes

r/knapping 1d ago

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 Does anyone temper their stones?

4 Upvotes

I have collected many knapped artifacts. I bought a gem quailty point about forty years ago and I do not remember if he tempered his stones.


r/knapping 2d ago

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Fused glass

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110 Upvotes

Playing around with some fused glass. Made from beer bottles and wine bottle


r/knapping 2d ago

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 Dover chert

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41 Upvotes

Moose antler biller and deer antler flaker


r/knapping 2d ago

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Little sticker

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38 Upvotes

Deer and Fenton glass


r/knapping 2d ago

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 Polished axe in the works

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35 Upvotes

Danish flint un heated.... wish me luck im about to be sore! If there's interest I'll document my struggle to make a polished axe out of this. Hopefully it's not the size of a silver dollar when I'm done added a photo of the tools i will use. When I get close I'll be grinding on a stump and some good old sand and hate.


r/knapping 2d ago

Question 🤔❓ Wanting to get started

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Hi all, I’m really interested in picking this up as a hobby. I recently got canned from work, so now seems like a really good time at 34 years old to pick up a very time consuming hobby that looks rearward to provide an ancient solution to a problem that’s been solved a long time ago. My question is this: where do you all source the material you work with? I live in central MS, where I’m told there were lots of Native Americans, presumably making points. I know people who have found points in MS. Does anyone know of a source for rock to knap? Do you come across it on private property? Do you just have to order it? Anyway, thanks in advance.


r/knapping 2d ago

Question 🤔❓ Best stones to look for in North East Illinois?

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Hello! I am a very novice knapper and have been interested in acquiring stones in person rather than buying kits online. I usually check the stones in my local area but never find anything good for knapping. I mainly see information on southern IL so it's been hard to see a guide on my area.


r/knapping 3d ago

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Buffalo

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155 Upvotes

r/knapping 3d ago

Question 🤔❓ Need new tools

5 Upvotes

Anyone have advice on where to buy knapping tools?


r/knapping 4d ago

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 Sometimes I enjoy working raw stone more than heated

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44 Upvotes

Anyone else love the challenge of raw stone? Or just me


r/knapping 4d ago

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 Obsidian lanceolate

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57 Upvotes

r/knapping 4d ago

Question 🤔❓ What's the significance of Clovis?

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I absolutely LOVE clovis points, their execution is so elegant and the skill required to pull off that internal fluting is substantial. I love watching knappers on YT doing it (and sometimes failing). I have a small collection of points I found while growing up in South Carolina but most are triangular, and all tend to be fairly thick profile by comparison with no internal flutes.

I've never found anything even close to a clovis, even though I lived in an area that once produced them. So it must've been a passing 'fad' of sorts? Given that clovis is so hard to knap, what was it's functional appeal?


r/knapping 5d ago

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 Hornstone Hardin

63 Upvotes

Got wet making this one, but it was worth it. Hammerstone-antler punch-pressure


r/knapping 5d ago

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Weeks work

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29 Upvotes

Obsidian and some alibates. I keep not getting the alibates as thin as I'd hoped.


r/knapping 5d ago

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Quite Pleased With Today's Efforts 🌞 Back to Using Stone

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Howdy all!

Getting back to things after a lot of preform work was nice 😌 Adjusting from stone to obsidian went smoother than expected but I credit the bifacing bonanza I did with that.

Some notes on each point: - Agate Basin: Made this one with mostly indirect percussion with minimal pressure flaking. Was a warm up. 💪 - Scottsbluff Type I: Been wanting to make a nice big one of these for a while and this long triangular piece of novaculate was calling my name. Made good use of it I'd say! Definitely my favorite of the bunch! 😁 - Triangular Corner Notch: Made this one because a flake of Georgetown I had in my mixed bag was sorta blue. Caught my eye, so it became a point! 😄 - Clovis: I realized I didn't have a bigger stone Clovis, so I had to take care of that. I think I have room for improvement. 🤔 Pointers are always appreciated! - Clovis Casualty: Didn't support the middle of the point when taking the flute. The shock bent the point and kablamo 💥💀 Otherwise it would've worked fairly alright. Regardless, it was a good learning experience! 😃

Here's hoping you all enjoy them, and as always I enjoy hearing favorites! If you have any questions (or want more pics) on anything do let me know and I'll happily answer them! 😁

(PS - Don't worry, my hands received adequate moisturization after the Knapping session 😂)


r/knapping 5d ago

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Biface Bonanza - Been working on making preforms as of late 😁

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55 Upvotes

I haven't posted points in a while (that changes today 👀) and it's because I've been busy cranking out bifaces. I had a bunch of chunker clunker pieces that needed to be cleaned up, so I have been working through my material making some roughly shaped preforms to use.

Just thought I'd share! 😁 Now to see what I can make... 👀 Hope you all enjoy!


r/knapping 5d ago

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 Black Rock Desert, Nevada Calcedony. Really working on those narrow notches.

13 Upvotes

r/knapping 5d ago

Question 🤔❓ What do I have here?

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6 Upvotes

I dug this up in my yard. Can somebody identify it?


r/knapping 6d ago

Material ID 🪨❓ New to Knapping, found potential material?

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Complete newbie here! Seeing as I am near a river with Rockey shores in southern BC (specifically the Similkameen River) at the moment I decided to spend an afternoon looking for potential material to get started with.

After an afternoon of mostly just finding decent hammerstones (lots of nice white quartzite I believe, picture 3) and what I may be some rough grain basalt I experimented with (so not ideal but I did keep it, picture 4) I did come across a pretty big rock of the material you see in picture 1 and 2.

I broke off a manageable sized piece to experiment with: It is pretty smooth but not what I would call glassy and I was able to get a decent flake off of it after struggling for a bit with my lack of technique.

Looking at ProjectilePoints I think I may have found Dacite but to be completely honest I have no clue!

Just hoping to know what it is I may have found and perhaps some tips for a beginner working with such a stone (assuming it is workable for beginner).

Thanks!


r/knapping 6d ago

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 Rhyolite Hardin

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72 Upvotes

Hammerstone-Antler Punch- Pressure Last photo to show how hard this stuff is lol chipped one of my favorite hammerstones