I have been told off for posting too many pictures of stone tools on social media, and so in response to that feedback here are some pictures of the tools I use to make the stone tools I post on social media. I start from the premise that flintknapping is a practice, and to practice you need both materials to work, and a range of tools to do the work.
In a previous post I discussed how I found quite a lot of copper pipe in a crawl space under our floor. Using that material, this morning I used a hacksaw to cut the lengths into about eight pieces, as above.
I then took a hammer and a doorstep and flattened the cut end of each piece.
That is more or less it. These copper pressure flakers do blunt and wear more quickly than ‘real’ pressure flakers that use thick gauge copper wire, and so a while back I bought this grinder for both antler hammer rejuvenation and pressure flaker sharpening.
As you can see, I have a lot, of now sharp different gauge pressure flakers. I also have a Bronze Age arrowhead workshop next week with ten people, hence doing this today.
These pressure flakers work, and different gauges work well for different stages of the making process. Obtaining equipment shouldn’t be a limiting factor if you want to learn how to make stone tools.
