Cutting antler and flaking an Arrowpoint part 1

Shows method of cutting antler and making pressureflakers as well as flaking small arrow points

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• arrowhead
• artifact
• chert
• archaeology
• white
• tail
• deer
• shed
• hunting
• bow
• archery
• primitive
• technology
• survival
• skill

[Jack70903]

heat the section of the antler that you need to brake all around with a stick that has an embered end (like you did with scoring) and then it will be loads easyer to brake

[Flintknappingtips]

@Jack70903 Thanks for the tip! 

[1BattleRattle]

Really admire your approach to this. Staying as archeologically true as possible to the art. Question is, as a beginner who has never attempted flintknapping, which is the best to start with? This video (Cutting antler and flaking an arrowhead)? Or would you recommend another project to start? What would you consider a good progression? I would like to just be able to make large simple knives and simple arrowheads for starters. Maybe as I progress try something more intricate.

[Flintknappingtips]

@1BattleRattle Large, simple knives can be made with hammerstones and little else. If you are less interested in pressureflaking than percussion you can make very usable tools with hammerstones. I would begin here and develop your percussion skills. You can save flakes from your efforts to flake arrow points with later (or at any time) You will need softer, grittier hammerstones than the smooth, hard landscaping cobbles you find. Something that grabs your jeans is good. Harder than brick

[jailbreaker12334332]

use a hacksaw

[Flintknappingtips]

I know. I wasted 3 minutes of my life. Wait... I can buy arrowheads! lol or bullets.

[willwildmanrankin]

hey there

i just started knapping.......i got a good couple chunks of obsidian at a geode convention and brought it home and started to knapp it.........well i learned the hard way by damn neart cutting 2 fingers off............very sharp........i did get the hang of it though

i am now working on pressure flaking

BUT your videos have helped me TONS

[farkinmunkeepoop]

i would looove to have all those flakes

[RedneckSurvivalist]

thats a small rack?

[teenmod12]

oh god. my father loved hunting and he would, when he first started hunting when i was really young if not even born, bring the skulls of the dear home (Well, he always brought the whole body home and butchered it behind the garden shed) take as much meat off, boil it untill it was clean, then bleach it and save them. my mom has three on display in my houses atrium. it was really weird

[1hunterdale]

lolololollolo

[fly2000jtb]

I think the whole idea was to show all out here how indians may have use to do it.