making a chrome obsidian elko

Tim this is Norm. I can learn more from you in 10 mins of personal instruction, then I can by watching YouTube knappers for a year. Thank you for all your time spent on me to make my work a 100 percent better over these last several years!!

New sub here, have been getting more into flint/obsidian working videos; have found them to be very ASMR-esque. Found your working technique to be quite interesting. Hoping your channel grows like a weed. Best wishes.

In Australia the aboriginal people's sometimes knapped glass telegraph wire insulators. The linemen got tired of the lines being cut and insulators taken that spare insulators were left on ground. There is an example of an aqua blue Ishi point he knapped from an insulator I saw online. The insulator must have been split down middle and point made from the sidewall? I attempted once to chip a vintage blue-green insulator with poor results. The glass is very brittle! If you cut an insulator down middle with tile saw into two halves you could demonstrate an Ishi point. Wonder if indigenous people's scored the rounded top of insulators and struck indirect percussion to split for at least one usable half? Thank you and enjoying your videos. :)

Pre-dynastic Egyptian Gertzian ceremonial blades and Danish "Hindsgavl" flint dagger style blanks were ground and polished smooth before rippled flaked. The Egyptian blades were only flaked on one side. Also modern recreation of the Gertzian blades its thought a wood vise and lever pressure flaker might have been used. The parallel flakes are driven all the way across blade.

Beautiiful work Tim. Great demonstration of the FOG technique. Torch bearer man.

I would love to see some agate action

So cool to see a master in a craft at work. thanks for documenting and sharing.

Nice job😊

Very cool!! A bit easier way then Hoppers method I think even tho very similar.

Ok, looks good so that's FOG

My "Sticky sharp & Too thin" Mr. Mullin! Love it!

master at work

谢谢老师分享教学

Where are you getting a preform like that?

Where are you getting a preform like that?