Help With Flint.

[Bushcraft4life]

Hi everyone. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to go about breaking off some shards of flint.
This is the piece of flint. Basicaly i need to flake off some core shards for torjusg(and anyone else who wants any ) and i don't have a clue how to do so.
Cheers.

 

[ady05]

could be an interesting thread as i would love to know myself

 

[Bushcraft4life]

Cheers ady05 i hope so

 

[torjusg]

As I sent in the pm, this link of mine may help a little:
http://torjusgaaren.blogspot.com/2006/12/drill-update.html

 

[Tadpole]

Hi everyone. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to go about breaking off some shards of flint.
This is the piece of flint. Basicaly i need to flake off some core shards for torjusg(and anyone else who wants any ) and i don't have a clue how to do so.
Cheers.

Funny you should mention flint, I went to my a place where last year the beach was littered with good sided chunks of reasonable looking flint, only to find that the storm that beached a huge container ship, had washed all the pebbles away and left just the beach sand. My hope of knapping some flint blades and arrowheads was dashed, like the containers that litter the beach just up the coast.

 

[Anhurset]

You might want to ask the guys over at PaleoPlanet . If you scroll about half way down the main page you'll see the flint knaping section, there's some great guys with a lot of info over there.

Bryan

 

[Paul W]

Hi,

I live just down the road from you and have PM'd you. I'll show you how to do it if you like?

 

[British Red]

That sounds like a good deal from Paul W - bite his hand off (or just belt it witht he hammer stone ).