Hello hello everyone! 😁

I'm more of a regular poster over on the r/knapping subreddit, but when I was tasked with making some knives to celebrate a friend's engagement, I decided to have a bit of fun with things! 🙂‍↕️

I knapped the blades first and sort of let my brain take me. I didn't shoot for any specific styles, just whatever felt right. Then I brought them to my work desk and modeled out some handles that I thought best fit the figure of the blades I'd made. Designing ergonomics is kind of hard, but I was very happy with these end results! 😎

I chose a selection of filaments for them, and even made it so that the handles of the two white ones would glow in the dark! Everything got secured with some modern adhesive, and a bit of artificial sinew reinforcement. Overall I had a GREAT time making these, and will absolutely be doing more in the future! So stay tuned for those! 😄

I'd love to hear any questions or comments, and especially which knife you like the most! This was a fun little experiment, and I really enjoyed the project. Thanks for viewing! 👋

- u/SmolzillaTheLizza 🦎

I found these all these pieces within 3 sq. ft. of each other in Austin after a big rain. All chert. They appear to be flakes from making arrowheads. Yes or no?

It was almost done. One or two more thinning and fine edge work and it would have been done... but nope, I had to let the tip touch the pad.

Started off with an obsidian cobble, used copper boppers + hammerstones to percussion flake and then a copper pressure flaker to finish the piece

It's not Buckshot, it's Fuckshot. Yes, it does have the look of a..

Some pieces I've made over the last 2 months. I've only been knapping for 7-8 months now and enjoying every minute of it (even when I snap pieces in half)

All copper percussion + pressure flaking. I work from spalls/nodules many of which I collected up at Glass Buttes, OR

Made a narrower one yesterday outta rootbeer. But it’s in two pieces 😂. What’s funny is I went for a field walk and found part of a broken drill after! Very uncommon find for the area.

Attended the Sac River Knap-in today In SW Missouri. Jim Redfearn had this Jim Hopper point in his case. What a sweet little point. Wicked thin, and uber precise. Thought ya'll might enjoy seeing it.

Finally getting some more even flake scars, time to start trying to get my points thinner again

Novaculite Agee

Made this little blade before work today. This was my first attempt in over a year. NGL,it took me a solid hour to get back into the swing of it but I still remember how to do it!! I stopped short of notching because I don't want to push the old luck.

As always, indirect percussion starting with a 3/8" copper rod down to a 1/4 steel rod, and pressure flaked with a steel nail. I still need a lot of practice, so hopefully this year I'll pull off some nicer points.

Love the look of this material. But it sure is a work out 🥵. Still learning how it works so this one's full of step fractures

Definitely not perfect but I'm having fun with this obsidian. With quartzite, pressure flaking is off the table. closest thing I can achieve is indirect percussion with an antler bit ishi stick. I'm still trying to get used to not smashing the hell out of the obsidian, its very very easy to break. I also have some flint in the mail that I'm looking forward to working on. Will keep posting updates as I branch out from my local junk.

Went creek walking with my brother yesterday and collected some matts without testing first. 9/10th was water intruded and thick grained stone not worth the time. I managed to salvage 2 small bifaces and as I thinned one out it revealed some nice fossils. All local material from stone to antler billet.

I'm a total beginner that's interested in learning more about primitive tools so identifying rocks is a little difficult. Does anyone have a pdf or something that helps with the identification of knappable rocks? I'm interested in learning more and some sort of guide would be extremely helpful. I found this little guy not sure what it is but it looks crystalline so maybe some kind of quartz. Sorry that my phone camera sucks.

Beautiful weekend in the Ozarks spent with friends at the Sac River Knap-in here in SW Missouri. Thought you guys might appreciate a couple of pics. Bear Carpenter had his usual selection of slabs, including some Perral Agate from Mexico. What an amazing material. And the bear handled knife made with it, pretty darned sweet.

And of course everyone loves a good Hardin, and Jim Redfearn makes some of the prettiest. He also had a biface from some Missouri Peoria chert. Talk about pretty...holy smokes...doesn't get much better.

And I thought I'd show a couple of successes from my tarp. The pair in my hand were made from some Kaolin chert that I collected in SE Illinois over 20 years ago. Been sitting in a bucket out back waiting to be cooked. Beautiful orangy golden stuff. Hard to see the translucency in these pics, but it's pretty sweet stuff. And it waited for me ...aw, how nice. :)

And then there's a basal notched Smith made from some creek Burlington. Sadly, the color was up near the cortex and fell away as I got into the meat of the cobble, but hey. I'll take it.

Enjoy....and Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there.

I think this is a material from Iceland whatever it is, I love it and I want all of it.