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1. Video (VHS or DVD): An Introduction to Flint Knapping

1. Video (VHS or DVD): An Introduction to Flint Knapping

Here is a beginner's video introduction to this ancient skill. Bill Metcalfe has been actively teaching the art of flint knapping for several years. Here he gives an introduction to the tools and methods he uses to produce flint arrowheads.

Teaching methods are clear, simple and with great close ups. Bill explains every move in detail so you can understand it.

Included are: Using copper billets, spalling large nodules to produce flakes, free-hand percussion flaking, pressure flaking using the Ishi stick, and notching.

$25.00 + 5.00 S&H

2. Beginners Tool Kit

Includes one hammerstone, one pressure flaker, rubber pad for hand protection and approximately TWO pounds of hand selected, flat, heat treated flakes of chert.

$25.00 +10.00 S&H

3. Intermediate Tool Kit

Includes one hammerstone, medium copper billet, copper-tipped pressure flaker, deer antler pressure flaker, rubber pad for hand protection, and approximately FOUR pounds of flakes and workable chert or flint.

$80.00 + 15.00 S&H

4. Master Kit

Includes one hammerstone, one large, medium and copper billets, one copper tipped pressure flaker, one deer antler pressure flaker, one small antler billet, one copper flint-edger, one rubber pad for hand protection, leather for leg protection, and approximatley TEN pounds of rock and flakes that are heat treated and ready to work.

$120.00 + 15.50 S&H

5. Magic Wand Copper Billets

Small

Medium

Large

$32.50 + 5.00 S&H

$37.00 + 5.00 S&H

6. Lessons

I offer individualized, one-on-one classes at my shop in Central Texas. The full day beginner's class is $150.00 and includes all materials for the class, about 20 lbs. of heat-treated rock, and personal instruction. Tools are provided for the class, and may be purchased at a discounted rate at the end of the class. We also display and demonstrate at various Gem & Mineral shows, artifact shows, and sports shows. Please visit the courses page for information on classes and seminars.

$150.00

7. Tomahawks--kits or finished

Five to seven inch head and fitted stick for handle, leather for wrapping the handle, beads, horsehair, decorative tin cones, furs and/or feathers for trimming, artificial sinew for fastening the head.

KITS Plain
Decorated

FINISHED Plain
Decorated

Plain Kit $50.00 + 5.00 S&H
Decorated Kit $60.00 + 5.00 S&H

Plain Finished $60.00 + 5.00 S&H
Decorated Finished $110.00 + 5.00 S&H

8. Arrow Kit

Includes one arrowhead, one fitted native shaft, artificial deer sinew for attaching the head, feathers for fletching

$20.00 + 5.00 S&H

9. Knife Kits

Includes chert, flint or obsidian blade (3"-4.5"), one deer antler handle, artificial sinew and leather for wrapping joint areas, glue, beads and feathers for decoration.

$35.00 + 7.50 S&H

10. Necklaces

Gem quality stone or brilliant glass or natural obsidian arrow heads in the 1.5"-2" size either on bone bead necklaces or coconut shell bead necklaces or possible custom made to order.

$25.00 + 5.00 S&H

10. Custom Kilns

For years we flintknappers have been converting ceramic kilns for use in heat treating our chert and flint. While they will work, ceramic kilns were not designed for this kind of work. A standard ceramic kiln is made of insulated bricks that are only 1.5 - 2 inches thick, and they lose a lot of energy to the outside air. The bricks our kilns are built of are a full 4 inches thick, and as a result they are MUCH more energy efficient than a ceramic kiln. They are also quite a bit easier to control. The heating units are much more substantial than ceramic kiln coils, and should last for many years under normal use. Each kiln holds one five gallon bucket worth of spalled material. They are controlled with the same type of infinite switch that we use on ceramic kilns but because of the energy efficiently they cycle less frequently.

On special order I can build a slightly larger kiln that will hold two buckets worth of flint. We now have operating kilns in eight different states.

Base price of a kiln is $250 for the one bucket size, or $325 for the two bucket model. We also offer a digital pyrometer (high temp. thermometer) for $75. Custom sized kilns can be built if you have special needs, call for more info.

One Bucket Model $250
Two Bucket Model $325
Thermometer $75

Flint Knapping and Bow Making with Bill Metcalfe * 766 Gann Branch Rd. * Killeen * US * 76549