Stone adze I made today the head is made of basalt and I use synthetic leather for the lashing took 1 hour in total

I’m looking to make these into earrings for my fiancé. Any tips or wire wrapping resources would be greatly appreciated!

There’s a boat-load of this material not far from my home. In my area there was a lot of volcano activity a day or 25 million ago, so lots of obsidian varieties and some wonderfully weird rocks about.

My question is, has anyone ever made points with Jasper, and particularly Leopard Skin Jasper (Leopard Skin Rhyolite)? It finishes out with some cool patterns but it seems like a fussy rock to work with.

Thanks for any insight - and on Jasper period, as there are lots of different Jaspers around too.

Neolithic Post of the Day: Now that the bike shop is slowing down, I get more time to play with all the fun rocks I found over the summer. This is a larger piece of Silver Sheen Obsidian I found out of Mono Basin. Most silver sheen is just a solid flash of silver, this is more cloudy or nebulous with black and sliver bands fading across the blade. The silver flash is caused by millions of micro bubbles that reflect light back out of the obsidian. The bubbles were forced into the molten lava before it cooled into obsidian. The handle is Ancient Cedar I found out of Sonora Pass, California area. It is 2000-4000 years old. I love the combo, and thanks for looking.

Reminds me of a pinching bug

I realized the other day how long it’s been since I’ve made a feasible arrowhead, so I made a few. Thanks for looking!

Apologies for the poor image quality. After breaking one side, I angrily notched the other. Of course it came out perfect! 😂

I got bored after dinner.

I have been flintknapping like a madman for 2 months now, and I have absolutely fallen in love with the craft. My father passed away 3 months ago now. I work in Archaeology, so he would always show me youtube videos of people making points out of beer bottle bottoms, or he would watch flintknapping videos and just thought it was the coolest thing ever. He would always ask me if I would ever get into making my own arrowheads. I always brushed it off saying I prefer to find and document them in my career rather than make them myself. After my father passed, I was stricken very heavily with grief. I wanted to do something to distract myself from the pain of the loss I had just experienced, and something inside me was driving me towards knapping. It’s been 2 months now since I started, and this hobby has helped me through such a difficult time in my life. Every time I break stone and start running flakes I feel connected to my dad like I’m honouring his legacy. I intend to be at this hobby for a lifetime and someday when I feel i’ve made something worthy, I’ll leave a point at my dad’s grave to show him how far i’ve come. I’ve found a hobby that truly makes me happy and excited and I thank my Dad for giving this last gift to me. Thanks for taking the time to read my story about how flintknapping has meant so much to me.

Happy knapping everyone, and may the flakes run just as you need them to.

I’m looking to make my first medium and small soft hammers out of this. Where would you cut it?

I loved the shape of this flake, it looks like a snake or some kind of lizard to me. Also did a great job of taking out two pretty badly placed hinges which ended up making a great platform.

Going on a trip this weekend. Ill be Rock hounding & visiting the family. just in case I couldn't find any workable stone I packed some ft.payne preforms 🤞

I decided to make a wooden billet as I've never used them before.This one flakes , surprisingly well and it is made of lilac 4 lbs

Got my hands on some Hixton quartzite from my super ultra secret supply. Breaks my heart how rare it is but it makes the final goods that much more meaningful.

I was walking my dog when I stumbled upon this behemoth, my dog is 50kg for scale.
(I know some places have flint nodules the size of a car, but where I live they max out at like 30cm usually)

Why are my flakes diving or hinging like this? This is my first time buying material. Heat treated keokuk chert. It seems like no matter what angle of the material/bopper I’m getting these results. I’ve watched tons of knapping videos and thought I had a decent handle on it. Most strikes were done with the smaller of the two boppers.

Does everyone think the bowl was pecked and ground then polished to form the inside or was there some kind of concretion or other rock inside that the flint formed around allowing this to be made much easier. I see the outside of the bowl and rim are knapped but assume there’s no way to Knapp the inside of the bowl like that. Hope that question makes sense. Anyways it’s an awesome artifact, and I’m glad I got to see it thanks to Windycityunicycle for posting it in LegitArtifacts. Sorry to the Mods if this post doesn’t fit the criteria of this subreddit, go ahead and delete it if it does I just figure it would be interesting to see what Flintknappers think about this.

Smollzilla posted a couple of days ago about a fossil I found years ago, embedded in the heart of a piece of Burlington. Here it is, a starfish. This creature was barely an 1/4 thick and as luck had it I sliced it in half during percussion. The odds are millions to 1 I suppose. It rested out on a small mass and I decided to take the foolish chance and see if I could remove it. I took the shot and bissected it a second time! The odds of that are astronomical. As a result, I was able to keep the original biface and flake itself. My friend wire wrapped it for me. This is one of my keepers, for obvious reasons. Enjoy!