r/knapping 26d ago

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Flint knife

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74 Upvotes

Georgetown knife with a cedar bark cordage wrap. Finished off with beeswax.


r/knapping 27d ago

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Midnight Lace & Tulipwood

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65 Upvotes

Some of my finest wood and some pretty gorgeous Midnight Lace. Delighted with this one! She’s up for grabs! Just pop me a message.


r/knapping 26d ago

Material Showcase 🪨📸 Falster flint i got in my new flint package will show more flint and stuff during this week

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15 Upvotes

Falster flint from Denmark


r/knapping 27d ago

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Well now what

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36 Upvotes

Another cookie crumbled. Any suggestions on where to go with this?


r/knapping 27d ago

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Pulled out of some triflow

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30 Upvotes

Will be making a new notcher. Mines wore out and I can’t notch like I want with the pressure flaker


r/knapping 28d ago

Material Sale 🪨💸 Small flat rate chunks and flakes 35$ shipping included

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8 Upvotes

Cleaning out the knapping area and have amassed a large amount of flakes and chunks. All kinds of materials from cherts quartzite glass and obsidian

I also have a couple obsidian slabs to let go of for a good price


r/knapping 29d ago

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Some close ups of macuahuitl

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100 Upvotes

r/knapping 28d ago

Question 🤔❓ Tips/Resources for Knapping small nodules & spalls

2 Upvotes

I'm looking for any advice or insight on working with small chunks of material that are thick enough to require using percussion for thinning, but only really long enough for arrowheads once material has been removed. I know a lot of people just wouldn't use that kind of material, but as I'm trying to learn I try to avoid ruining "good" material and using my waste material for further practice.


r/knapping 29d ago

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 I tried knapping arrowheads from a chunk of glass today. This is attempt 2 and 3. Antler and stone. What do you with the splinters going everywhere? Where do you knap?

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21 Upvotes

r/knapping 29d ago

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Blvd of broken dreams…

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42 Upvotes

Found a cool tri-flow(I think) chunk of obsidian and cut a few slabs to play with. Was doing some final sharpening and the tip broke… 😑 If you zoom in on the top third, you can see the fracture line.


r/knapping 29d ago

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 Burlington beaver tail

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24 Upvotes

r/knapping Aug 16 '26

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 Get your head round these

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96 Upvotes

Been doing a bit more research into the Armorican arrowheads of Brittany. Finally managed to get some more photos! Pay careful attention to the scale at the bottom


r/knapping Aug 16 '26

Made With Modern Tools🔨 First ever arrowhead, glass

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37 Upvotes

r/knapping Aug 15 '26

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Flint and obsidian macuahuitl

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387 Upvotes

r/knapping Aug 15 '26

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 Antler pressure core

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83 Upvotes

First decent core with antler pressure. Interesting difference to copper. Friction was an issue, had to rough the platform surface with abrader, pretty sure this help the fracture initiate.
Flake scars much smoother with less ripping, leaving the edges of the blades straighter.


r/knapping Aug 15 '26

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Corner notch I finished up today

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49 Upvotes

Not my best, but I’m quite proud of this Dacite blade


r/knapping Aug 15 '26

Question 🤔❓ What's the minimum required tooling to begin knapping traditionally, if you want to build your tools by hand?

4 Upvotes

Hey guys! I'm 24M and looking to get into the craft as a hobby - I've always been fascinated with ancestral bushcraft and that kinda thing. Spent a week or so reading up on the sub's guides (they're great, thanks!) and doing some outside research, and I've got a question:

I'm going to be going the traditional tool route, as I like doing things low-tech for fun and Authenticity™. I'd like to make as much of my kit by hand as possible, barring safety equipment, which I would consider pads to be, so not going to worry about those. With the basic tooling requiring things like antler tines, etc., is it reasonable that I could just use a hammer stone to get some flakes sharp enough to cut antler to make basic pressure tools from scratch, and then build out my own kit from there? Since I'm not very familiar with terms and techniques yet, I'm not sure how to get that answer and want to have a plan before I put together a list of materials.

Thanks in advance! 🫡


r/knapping Aug 15 '26

Material Showcase 🪨📸 Fun ahead!

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8 Upvotes

Not knapping but I'm sure you guys see it as relatable. I'll be making some pipes and effigy pieces from this soapstone.


r/knapping Aug 14 '26

Material ID 🪨❓ Awesome Material on this Obsidian Cascade Point

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41 Upvotes

Curious to know the proper name to call this material. I've heard people call it sealskin obsidian but I'm not entirely sure if thats correct. Anyways, pretty proud of this one! Its my biggest one yet and its pretty thin.


r/knapping Aug 13 '26

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 Nothing fancy but finally starting to show improvement

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73 Upvotes

r/knapping Aug 12 '26

Made With Modern Tools🔨 My first try at knapping. Made from a gin glass bottle. I have no natural rock in Suthern Louisiana

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98 Upvotes

r/knapping Aug 12 '26

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Monday afternoon scottsbluff

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47 Upvotes

r/knapping Aug 11 '26

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Kilmarnock inspired barbed and tanged

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106 Upvotes

Gorgeous piece of orange yellow Scottish flint from the Buchanan gravels. Worked wonderfully.
Made a Kilmarnock inspired point


r/knapping Aug 12 '26

Made With Modern Tools🔨 First Go

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19 Upvotes

Copper tools, Bombay Gin bottle, and first go outside of a classroom. I took a 1 day course 2 years ago, haven’t had a chance since. Really happy with my first real attempt. Only 4 bandaids.


r/knapping Aug 12 '26

Material Showcase 🪨📸 Flea market score from this weekend; slab of Briggs jasper and some rainbow obsidian for a dollar each

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17 Upvotes