Photos: Raw chert point radically thinned with finger punch

[BenjaminE]

Moderator, could you move this to the other forum for me? I do not know how to delete it. Thanks.

Old tool and old technique baffle modern flintknappers for years. Guess how it was done?

 

[arrow86]

Do you have you tube videos of some of your work ? I would like to see if you do. To somebody that doesn’t knap it’s hard to know the difference of the techniques

 

[Jason Crozier]

I’d certainly love to know how you made it so thin.

 

[BenjaminE]

Moderator, I apologize for posting in the wrong forum.

The flaker shown is usually described in literature as a "cut tine tip" flaker. The following video shows I use the flaker with a process that dates back to the early 19th century, as recounted to a soldier named Grinnell, and published around 1869: