Knapping Arrowheads From Glass Part 1

[dennislynx]

can u make a video of how to make arrowheads from a rock

[DVDluvr123]

@dennislynx Search on YouTube for paleomanjim

[Dregoba]

Doesn't the small shards and fragments cut your finger?

[108johnny]

bottles are good, but, if everything goes bad- window glass will be more common. (look at all the buildings around you!) Learning to put an edge on a shard of window glass would be usefull, too. You can often find pieces of it around construction sites.

[108johnny]

An excellent source for THICK, cheap glass bottoms is from the bottom of a $1 water/juice glass you can buy by the box from grocery stores, WalMart, etc. Just use them around the house- when it breaks- you will smile instead of getting mad! "Johnstone" is what flint knappers call a broken toilet or sink, and it works great, too. The sides of a Jaegermeister bottle make a very attractive knife or arrowhead, btw....

[azamataz]

DAVE CANTERBURY WHAT A LEGEND

[Sudz1911]

if you had the chance you goback and enlist or stay out, which would it have been?

[datzfast]

can you use ceramic tile or pottery

[FlintKnappingDreams]

im pretty sure ur dave from daul survival i love ur show

[FlintKnappingDreams]

im pretty sure ur dave from daul survival i love ur show

[kandyce1323]

dude are u the guy from dual survival ? i believe so!

[zachattack363]

could you do anything with the rest of the glass bottle?

[beast69ification]

UR ON DUAL SURVIVAL!!!!!!!!!

[wolvenancestry992]

@rathalos117 your a dumbass. where do u think buffalo jerky comes from?

[rainmechanic]

I saw dave do this on tonites episode of Dual Survival and was looking for some more detail on how this is done then was shown on the show...... Im sure Canterbuy's busy with the show these days so if anyone else knows or has done this i would like to know whether its easier or harder to learn knapping working with glass as your medium? Is this a good way to learn/practice knapping or should a person get some actual flint from an online supplier in order to learn this skill ?

[Taheelur123]

i especially like the beginning of the video where you're carrying the injured pig to safety... wait... OH GOD!!! jk jk lol

[jezus92191]

@Taheelur123 that definitely made my day lol

[837bunny]

what are the basic tools that would be needed if i was thinking about getting in to knapping...even just starting out with knapping glass?

[mwalkingwolfm]

@837bunny i'm a flintknapper an i'm gonna make a vid soon. i'll explain ALL the basics, tool making, all of it. i think i'm a very good teacher. i'll even tutor you with personal vids if u need it. "remember the old ways" - me.

[rangerchallengebravo]

Interesting video, but it'd be more practical from a survival standpoint if he showed how to make the arrowheads with improvised tools. I doubt you'd have copper billets and pressure flakers in a survival situation.

[sabbinac]

@rangerchallengebravo  Improvise my good man! Improvise!

[zzbunch]

when i do this i try to knap it to the flat area where there isnt any curve to it on either side.

[SailorBarsoom]

I should think that glass arrowheads would be very sharp, and very pretty.

[dasdeeboot]

i still dont understand how the hell to get curves out of beer bottle bottoms. my points always come out with a curve :(

[mwalkingwolfm]

@dasdeeboot actually, when you strike a spall (large flake) off the parent rock, (the big stone) because of the nature of the shock wave that travels thru the stone, it will be naturally curved. but primitives used the curved points. the curve would, i'm sure, cause the arrow to wander in flight. but u know they were used to this and learned to aim a little left if they placed their arrow on the bow in the position to fly to the right. they adapted. they used what they made- straight or curved.

[liberatedhumanbeing]

So lets see if I got this right, from a stone knappers pointy of view as I see little actual showing how that is different other then used medium. But it appears glass is knapped same as stone. Is this correct? I mean if it is done the same, then I can do it already & my prospects of sources are vastly broadened. I assume it is a versatile as stone for tools that can be made, or is arrowheads pretty much the only thing of use that it is good for?

[walksthetalk]

It's similar in that it will form conchoidal fractures. Dissimilar because it is very brittle, more so than obsidian. If it breaks like glass, it can be knapped. Another plus for using glass is that it doesn't need to be heat treated.

[liberatedhumanbeing]

thats what I thought. about heat treating, that is preferred but isn't really needed to work on stone either. It just makes it easier to work & stronger bonding of molecules & thus can make more durable tools & use techniques like pressure flaking without fear of destroying what you have done so far by causing a rouge fractures. What would take an hour is now done in under 20 minutes.

[bushcraftourway]

you seemed abit down in this vid big guy, were u ok?

[captaincoolness55]

when i was a kid, my family was on vacation at the beach and we found this shop that sold obsidian arrowheads (along with other things like chainsaw sculptures and old fire engines you could take pics with), and i found that a few were really good and straight, but most were pretty curved, and only one side was really worked.

[liberatedhumanbeing]

Because they sell fashion not function. Sounds like the points I used to use for targets, or on arrows sold to be decorative. But ask the average joe & they think it is a real & finished point. The smarter man gets the stupider he becomes. I've met people that actually thought cavemen used compound tech on their bows. Or a working bow needs take the time as a good bow to make. Surprised to find a working bow only takes a few minutes NOT days, weeks, months or years. Thats for good bows you keep.

[captaincoolness55]

i agree with the safety glasses part. when i was in middle school, i was trying to do some flintknapping with obsidian, and a flake of it went into my eye. luckily no damage was done.

[patakajet7]

will they break easly just wondering cause it looks good to use nice vid btw

[huronhorde]

awsome video dave! keep them coming! you should make one with flintknapping with accual flint,.

[Wolf13542]

I make most of my practice heads on the rest of the bottle and use the bottoms for the real thing. I've become obsessed with practice heads and (because I live near a 100 year old medicine bottle dump site) make them in every color possible. The rare colors stay in a bag and I turn the others into necklaces. Practice heads are luckily, not as sharp.

[bowmasterpigo13]

have u ever killed something with the class tip heads

[sk8rlego]

and how did you get the bottom out?

[Magnumscoffeefreek]

i saw a cool vid where a lady put a 16p nail head down and shook the bottle up and down and it just pops it off

[sk8rlego]

do they brake easily when you shoot them?

[dominic100stewart]

can u use something instead of copper by the way great video

[cristina91493]

an antler or a smooth rock or just about anything that is hard that you can control easly

[xxkid123]

nice, but i like using the rest of the small parts of the bottle for arrow heads though

[MrGatoMan1]

How long did it take you to do that?

[wildernessoutfitters]

About 45 Minutes

[MrGuineapigdude]

@wildernessoutfitters aren't you dave from duel survival with cody too

[EVPpsycho]

@MrGuineapigdude yeah that's him.

[ctm1995]

Great Video Dave, I knapped a glass spear head about a year ago and it it was great, im going to try to make a arrow head for sure, Thanks, 5/5

[godsend420]

im drinking beer from a glass bottle right now but i know trash goes in a bag and not just dumped where ever but nice use of recycling what did you do with the rest of the bottle?

[plankrdjack]

great video!!!! thought you were never gonna do another one one knapping, lol! ive been practicing myself... it is really a challange sometimes!!! thanx for the video mike p

[wildlifeed]

Love these Videos Dave!!! awesome!! Ed

[XxU2UBExX]

so awesome and cool! thanks dave  ~JT

[wss355]

cool i find glass beer bottles on my walks home from school i can break

[Milkman12114]

Is that dear skin your using to hold glass?

[wildernessoutfitters]

Buffalo

[wildernessoutfitters]

Buddy, Buffalo are raised on farm now for meat-

[wildlifeed]

Yep, They've been farmed for Freaking years!!!

[rathalos117]

Wow, I've been living under a rock...

[turdburper]

Nope, it's farmed for meat. Burger joints like Fuddruckers in my area sell buffalo burgers. I assume the American Bison and buffalo are the same animal. I guess I'll go google that now LOL

[turdburper]

Ok, so I should have checked before I replied. Buffalo is a common term used to refer to the American Bison, however technically, a buffalo is completely different, for instance the water buffalo in Asia with the huge horns and look more like ox or cattle than a bison does. Anyway, bison meat is readily available in the US, so Im sure the skins are processed for retail uses too.

[farkinmunkeepoop]

google is soooo awesome

[hunna122]

@rathalos117 actually there is a herd and utah thats free roaming theres like 2500 buffalo my uncle got a tag and long story short theres a good trophy on his wall and some good food :)

[superguyperson]

@rathalos117 u can buy a buffalo burger at fuddruckers. Idk if you have one in your area, but they are sooo good, they may look like a imbred whale cow, but they taste delicous.

[Caveman0713]

nice cant wait to see part 2. Oh dave, what are you doing with the small flakes of glass? Are you just dumping em in the woods? That not very nature conscientious. If its in your yard or your area its cool though, you have to live in it. I just hope you dont get stuck walking barefoot.

[Manpinkster3]

Very nice!

[Frolic3r]

I'm glad that you mentioned the aerodynamics because I always wondered about that when other people made curved glass arrowheads.

[gilmou1]

great vid

[summerdude600]

first view, first post :P great vids