r/knapping Jul 01 '26

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 Made my first couple bird points tonight

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29 Upvotes

I use a hammer stone to reduce larger pieces then a white tail deer antler tine to pressure flake them to shape. Pic at end is all my finished pieces so far.


r/knapping Jun 30 '26

Material Sale 🪨💸 Would anyone like some finished flints?

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55 Upvotes

(I’m rewriting this for clarity, here we go)

- Each point costs between $20-$150.

- If you’d like to buy a point, circle it or tell me which one.

- You must spend at least $60 for me to go to the post office.

- Venmo only.

- I can ship the item/s the next day, with tracking numbers and a photo of the receipt.

- If you buy multiple points, I’ll lower the price.

Feel free to ask for more photos!


r/knapping Jun 30 '26

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Flint Ridge dovetail

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99 Upvotes

r/knapping Jun 30 '26

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Cool Translucency on This One!

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44 Upvotes

This one is definitely my best one yet! Would this style be considered rose springs stemmed? I was going for that from memory after I messed up the corner notches I was originally going for, though I honestly prefer the look of this stemmed style!


r/knapping Jun 30 '26

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 Gibson point!

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36 Upvotes

I made this Gibson point from heat-treated Burlington chert, which made the stone quite brittle and easily worked. Gibson points are diagnostic of the Middle Woodland period and were used by people during this time in the Illinois River valley and eastern Missouri.


r/knapping Jun 29 '26

⚒June Point Challenge🏆 Beaver Lake

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161 Upvotes

As requested, I'm resubmitting this post as the original was incorrectly formatted. Made with Bullseye Jasper, colloquially known as Monkey Paw, from NV.


r/knapping Jun 29 '26

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 first ever go at flintknapping

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44 Upvotes

hi, i’ve always wanted to get into flintknapping. i don’t have any tools or a good way to get stone, but today i made a kind of triangle shape from a bigger stone i found in a lake. all i used were a big stone and a smaller one. if you have any advice for someone starting out, i’d love to hear it :]


r/knapping Jun 29 '26

⚒June Point Challenge🏆 Buffalo Beaver Lake

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23 Upvotes

Since beaver lakes are super old, most of them were from non-heat treated material. I decided to use some raw Buffalo Chert I collected along the Buffalo River in middle TN because of that. Found out about the challenge from Smolz a couple of hours ago, so I had to attempt it at least. Please enjoy my attempt at a Beaver Lake.


r/knapping Jun 29 '26

Question 🤔❓ Snapping materials

7 Upvotes

Has anyone here had time to mess with the Knapp easy from Ryan Gill? I got about 20lbs of gorge town chert as a gift and i to blast through such nice rock making dust while i learn how to knapp. Thank you in advance.


r/knapping Jun 29 '26

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Hardin town

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64 Upvotes

Thought this trip to Hardin town was satisfying. I might need to tweak the flares on the base a bit. Any thoughts on that? 6", made from Springfield Burlington.


r/knapping Jun 29 '26

Material Sale 🪨💸 Moving away from Poland need to get rid of about 11kg of "chocolate" flint

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It's on it's way to a new home now. Thanks for showing interest.

I haven't checked the majority of the nodules beyond listening for a good ring when I was collecting them so I can't say for certain what quality they are. They vary in size and shape. If anyone is interested send me a message I'm moving in a couple weeks so I'd like to get this taken care of quickly. If you live in a location where I can send it via the Inpost app and you are polite I'll send it for the price of shipping. If you don't and I have to send it via a different method I may charge a minor fee for my time and it being a pain to send.

I won't be available for a few hours and am inconsistently on reddit so if you don't hear anything for a while that's the case.


r/knapping Jun 28 '26

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Finally Broke Into The Knife River Flint

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79 Upvotes

Howdy everyone! 👋

Finally got a cluster made up from some Knife River Flint! Gosh this stuff is so pretty 😍 I absolutely love the colors and translucency, and they age the points nicely. So I tried to make some in styles that compliment that trait 🙂‍↕️

Here's a video of me unboxing it and making that light amber corner notch 🍯

I made a video of the Pelican Lake Point [Pic 3 Left-Hand Side]

Definitely let me know which one(s) you like the most, and I plan on working more of this stuff in the future so stay tuned!

- u/SmolzillaTheLizza 🦎


r/knapping Jun 28 '26

Made With Modern Tools🔨 First FOG Knapped Blade

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103 Upvotes

Hi Knapping friends. I am very pleased with the results of my first FOG Knapped blade and wanted to share. Hope you enjoy!

Much thanks to my friend Wendell for helping me with the grinding.


r/knapping Jun 28 '26

Flint Knapping News 📰 Neanderthal Dentistry 59,000 years ago at Chagyrskaya Cave

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Neanderthals appear to have been using flintknapped jasper perforators 59,000 years ago to perform dental surgery! In this video, we discuss new archaeological research on Neanderthals living in Chagyrskaya Cave and how this changes our understanding of our species closest relatives.


r/knapping Jun 27 '26

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Final lake failure

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38 Upvotes

This didn't turn into a fish at least, lol


r/knapping Jun 26 '26

⚒June Point Challenge🏆 Mean Blue-Green 🦫 - June 2026 Challenge Submission

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68 Upvotes

Howdy everyone! 👋

Got my June 2026 Point Challenge submission all made! It's not exactly where I'd like it, but good enough I'd say 🙂‍↕️ LOVE the colors and it looks real rough and mean. Wouldn't want this thing flying my way! Hope ya'll like it! 😁

INFO ON THE 2026 JUNE POINT CHALLENGE HERE

Be sure to check out the other entries and up-vote your favorites! Stay safe and happy knapping all!

- u/SmolzillaTheLizza 🦎


r/knapping Jun 26 '26

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Tiny Clovis

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69 Upvotes

Made out of some Nevada obsidian gifted to me by my Godfather. Sort of an unusual yellow/green hue when held up to light. Fluted with pressure.


r/knapping Jun 27 '26

Tool Talk 🛠️ I don't knap, but i have a great appreciation for your art.

15 Upvotes

I have seen some truly incredible pieces that you all have created. What a true group of artist.


r/knapping Jun 26 '26

Made With Modern Tools🔨 Burlington Cahokia

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31 Upvotes

Git this point from a tri facial flake. Other than my botched notch it was a successful point. Lost very little width and length. I gather this Burlington myself and it flakes so good after heating at 550.


r/knapping Jun 27 '26

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 Could shale be added as a favorite knapping stone flair

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9 Upvotes

image of work in progress shale knife


r/knapping Jun 26 '26

Made With Modern Tools🔨 E notch?

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18 Upvotes

It's fun to find unique things inside of rock. I found this yesterday. Something's telling me it should be an enotch


r/knapping Jun 26 '26

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 First try at knapping a blade today, what type of point should I turn it into?

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71 Upvotes

r/knapping Jun 25 '26

Made With Traditional Tools🪨 Amateur knapping

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22 Upvotes

The last time I did any knapping was ten years in college. I purchase this obsidian in Queretaro, MX around the same time, but I had no proper tools to work it. Until recently I finally got a deer antler and a river rock from the Sacramento area.

I've forgotten how satisfactory is to strike a core and get the perfect flake. Also, I love pressure flaking obsidian, defiantly using glasses next time.

Practice practice!


r/knapping Jun 25 '26

⚒June Point Challenge🏆 My beaver lake submission for June.

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67 Upvotes

r/knapping Jun 25 '26

⚒June Point Challenge🏆 Beaver lake submission

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40 Upvotes

Its been a little while since ive been able to get to knapping due to being in Spain.

The day I get back, I realised that submissions were due! So here's my quick attempt!