Does anyone do flint-knapping here? How expensive is it to get into things? I'd like to make some Acheulean or early, Oldowan-type tools for use in a photoshoot.
>>2872764How expensive is flint knapping? Nigga can you bang two rocks together??? How expensive is that?
>>2872766Some leather to go over your thigh to protect yourself, and an antler for precise work. But yeah.
My fat ass thought that was a McDonald's apple pie
>>2872764$15 Home Depot trip.The natives did it for free, why can't you?
>>2873073You can't just use any rocks.
>>2872764Every video I've watched of this ends up with a guy cutting his hand off fingers in multiple places
>>2873079skill issue>t. homo sapiens neanderthalis
>>2872764it's literally freeyou can find flint nodes in most rivers, streams or beaches. they're the fist-sized white oval/round looking rocks but they can also be found in other colours as in picrel. You won't be able to knap most of sedimentary stone (shale, limestone, sandstone) because it's so brittle and you won't be able to finely knap most common igneous stone (granite) because it's too hard. the most simple stone tools are hand axes which are just flint/obsidian/chert nodes that have one or two pieces chipped off to make a single blade/edge. You can practice making these with a hammer stone (an oval stone made of quartz/sandstone/limestone) to chip off two sides of a tool stone. the removed shards can be further refined into microblades. this is basically how oldowan tools were made; a single hand sized node with a couple edges chipped off using a hammer stone.soft hammers can either be made of deer horn or hardwood like oat. these deliver better results but are much harder to useAcheulean hand axes are made from a "core" extracted from a node that should be perhaps twice the size of the intended tool. You use a stone hammer to remove both sides of it and can either use a stone or bone hammer to remove smaller and smaller chips to finish the blade.
>>2873031Its called jeans m8
>>2872764Please be aware that flint knapping is illegal in the UK and many other countries and states if you create a blade longer than 3 inches
>tfw almost no flint in my country >accessible obsidian is long gone The autochthons used ground-stone tools rather than knapped I think there are some volcanic islands full of obsidian but you would need a boat and some are illegal to land on (pest-free wildlife reserves)
>>2873387>oi you got a loicense fer that rockimagine inventing the industrial revolution then falling to the point of outlawing rock and spatula ownershipeurocucks deserve the self inflicted ass raping theyre getting.
>>2873283Bless you anon, thanks.
