flintknapping

Hello Bushcrafters! I have been guiding a lot of foraging, spearfishing and teaching general survival skills this past year so I have not been very active on BCUSA but it finally dawned on me that it might be fun to go back to the basics! So I am teaching a stone tool making class from 12-3pm in...

Howdy folks! It was a very dumb idea that we sincerely hope no one else tries, but after years and years of flintknapping, Martijn and I decided to test our Jedi skills and use The Force to make bifacial flaked stone tools from obsidian with blindfolds on. The challenge was to see who could make...

TheTribeOfBenjamin, one of my favorite YouTubers, deals with traditional braintaning of deer hides, flintknapping, paleolothic clothing and footwear(moccasins), natural cordage, shelter building, primitive archery, plus much more. Bens the kind of guy you can watch his vidoes and actually learn...

Hello all! I am thinking of leading another stone tool making workshop in the next week or so near Sacramento, CA. I figured I would ask here first to see if there was any interest from folks in the area?

Hello friends! I posted this in the edged tools section as well, but perhaps it is more appropriate here. We just uploaded our new video showing start to finish how to make glass bifacial knife blades, prepare pitch glue, carve wooden handles and haft them up using deer sinew and all stone...

Hello all, We have been busy! We just cranked out some new glass and obsidian bladed knives using all stone tools the old way! We flintknapped the blades using river cobbles for hammerstones, antler pressure flakers, carved willow handles with stone flakes, made a bowdrill fire to melt...

Hello all! I have not posted for a while, but will start up again now. I wanted to offer a flintknapping class for anyone in the Sacramento area. I am an archaeologist, and have been flintknapping and teaching stone tool production for over a decade. If you are in the Sacramento area and...

Hello all, I have been away for quite a while. But I am back now and hope to post regularly again. If anyone in Northern CA is interested in Flintknapping lessons, I have materials and have been teaching knapping for well over a decade. Attached are a couple of pics of some rocks I broke in...

Looking to expand my knowledge of Bush Craft, I've come across this site many of times. So I finally decided to buck up and join. Hopefully as time goes on I can learn and intern pass what I've learned to the community. I'm interested in everything from; learning to build semi permanent...

Hello everyone, I just joined up yesterday after checking out a couple of very cool threads here. Just wanted to introduce myself and say I am really looking forward to learning and sharing the love of the natural world here. I am an archaeologist with an emphasis in traditional technologies...

Stone knife: Blade is from Georgetown flint, Handle is cactus cholla and maple, hafted with epoxy and wrapped with deer sinew. My first tomahawk: Axe head is black butter dacite from Oregon, hafted with PPG and wrapped with coated jute twine. Axe handle is made...

im gonna put a handle on it as soon as i get sinew:1: i have the natural deer hide glue and everything but i couldnt find any tendons layin around so ive gotta buy some:4: if youve got any stone blades it'd be cool to share some pics!

We ("we" being my buddy Mark and I) recently found a supply of chert, very much similar to Fossil Hill Formation Chert (aka Collingwood Chert). However, because we are nowhere close to Collingwood (approximately a 4 hour drive or maybe less), we have been given the chance to name the chert...