[calex59]

I knew someone who used to flintknap stone, just to see how it could have been done.

He said it was incredibly frustrating.

I still know a guy that makes arrow heads, spear heads etc. It took him a long time to become and expert but he persevered, I guess it is just something you have to want to do for one reason or another.

[VanShuyten]

A friend of mine is a good flint knapper. He showed all of us how to do it - finding and selecting flints, finding and using good hammer stones, controlling the way the flint breaks, etc. It's actually fairly easy to get a cutting edge, but I can't imagine how much skill and time would be required to make a 10” Clovis point.