ADDICTED TO FLINT KNAPPING Published 12:00 am Friday, January 11, 2002 ...

Knappers and knapping enthusiasts from across Pennsylvania and beyond gather at Knap-In to slowly, painstakingly shape flint, chert, obsidian or similarly fracturing mineral into stone tools ...

These factors motivated me to try flint-knapping a piece of glass, not stone. Outdoors, I found a river bank that was rocky, with some pieces of broken glass — old discarded bottle fragments.

Earls started flint knapping about 10 years ago while living in Utah. From store to store, he would find knives with antler handles and obsidian blades, and thought "Who makes those?

Mike Brown shows off a piece made of electric blue obsidian at the monthly meeting of the Utah Valley Knapping Association at the Hutchings Museum in Lehi on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013.

Butte archeaologist Ken Dickerson, offers Suzanne Stilwell tips on how to fashion arrowheads from obsidian Saturday during a flint-knapping workshop held in the Mineral Museum on the Montana Tech ...

“There are a lot of flint knappers out there who travel up and down the East Coast to find and sell them.” Jeff Payne holds obsidian, one of the many stones he uses for flint knapping.

Knapping is the art of cracking stone in a controlled fashion, Whitfield said. Flint, chert and obsidian are commonly used.

Kila man uses flint knapping to bring history to life A long-time arrowhead collector, Kila's Tom Blais has been learning how to make the stone tools himself for nearly 30 years.

Ben Kirkland will teach flint-knapping and fire-making at Pebble Hill on Oct. 29, 2022.

AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - A group at Arts in the Sunset in Amarillo is continuing the tradition of flint knapping. Donald Cameron with Panhandle Flint Knappers says around 2007, he ran into a man ...