Video: 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. Video is approx. 80 minutes long, and is available in either VHS or DVD.