Flintknapping - Blade Cores - ground platforms - part 2

Continuation - Shows a method of hand grinding blade core preforms on a basalt slab using chert flakes and gravel. Blades are then removed using an antler tipped chest crutch

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Flintknapping
• Lithics
• Arrowhead
• Paleoplanet
• Cores
• Blades
• Ishi
• Stick

[jamieknaps]

seems like an excellent setup to run flutes off of cumberlands. may have to give this a shot

[paleomanjim]

@jamieknaps I have used this setup with folsoms, but anything longer really requires a lot of force...

[archeryman5000]

What do you do with all of the blades? Seems like you make a significant amount of them.

thanks

jim

[paleomanjim]

@archeryman5000 I save the straighter ones for tool use...aztec or mayan swords, etc.

[ashnbrandon1]

on the crutch things are u just like leaning on top of them and pressing on the core?

[paleomanjim]

@ashnbrandon1 Yes, I'm just using my body weight to apply pressure, then pulling in on the crutch to get the crack started....

[82f150]

hey jim on pp i saw a pic tom had posted of a "death wand" that atlatl bob made. where those blades in the edges?

[paleomanjim]

I'm guessing hertzian? just a guess.....

[scrumptiousvittles]

how do you spell the "her-tsee-an" bit of those cones you are making?

[scrumptiousvittles]

EXTREMELY clear and helpful