How to Finish a Stone Knife by Flintknapping

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Summary: How to finish a stone knife by flintknapping in this free How-to video.

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John Olsen Through scratching and grinding rocks, John Olsen has made many authentic replica artifacts. He majored in ceramics in college and began making primitive item... read more

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How to Finish a Stone Knife by Flintknapping

Hi, I'm John Olsen for Expert Village. And I've got one notch pretty well done there. Going a little farther. Deep notches make it easy to haft something and they look cool. There's a fairly deep notch and now I'll go on the other side and repeat that process and put one on the other side, right about here. Copper's quite soft so it grips the side of this stone and makes it so you can push off flakes pretty easy. Kind of like the deer horn, it kind of grabs the edge. Basically we've got a nice shape here. Really all that's needed to be done with this is come around the edges where I've been grinding with my little hammer stone here. Knock off all these sharp edges so I can put a nice series of flakes along there that'll make it nice and sharp. These are little tiny guys. And you can do a lot of series of these and just make it nice and fine. And as this knife gets dull, you can keep laying on a series of these little flakes and pretty soon this knife might change into the size of what is more the size of a projectile point. Really nice series of really serrated cutting edge there. I'll put another one on this side. Now I'll turn it over and take some off the opposite side down both sides. Just like that, we've got a knife.