Disaster Preparation

Disaster Preparation

Always be prepared for the worst case scenario! Become an expert survivalist. Learn how to build a fire in the woods or extinguish one in your home. Survive an earthquake or a flood, keep the wilderness at bay, make an emergency stove, kill insects, make weapons and tie a variety of knots. Sharpen your survival skills whether you are stranded on a desert island or the next contestant on Survivor.

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Use pop can survival tips

Could an empty pop can save your life? Sure it could! Just build a fire with a can using tips from this video.

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Use biface thinning basics

Take a quick look at biface thinning for novice knappers. Learn how to locate a mass on a biface, find a ridge to that mass, set up a ...more

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Flint knap a stemmed point from Texas chert

Check out this video to learn how to flint knap a stemmed serrated point from central Texas chert.

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Punch knap chert arrowheads

Scalp creek uses antler punches and antler billets to punch a base on a point and work edges with new a leather "trough pad." Learn how to ...more

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Flintknap with a thick leather hand pad

This one inch thick leather hand pad is very comfortable for grasping a biface. Due to arthritis, people cannot always close their fingers ...more

How to flintknap with a thick leather hand pad
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Use a moose billet percussion technique

Learn how to do flint knapping with percussion antler billets. Scalp creek discusses the method of "peeling" flakes off the bottom by raking ...more

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Make a paleoknife from Peoria chert & mesquite

Make a blade from Peoria chert with "abo" tools (moose antler and stone) then haft the blade with pine mastic into an aged Mesquite handle.

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Use melted pine sap to haft points

For hafting points, melt pine sap and strain it while it is mixed with some turpentine. Then, mix the clean sap with horse, cow or rabbit ...more

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Flint knap irregular pieces of spall

Check out this video to learn how to reduce odd shaped spalls and make a point from them. Yes, you can save large pieces and make more ...more

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Flint knap a stemmed darl point

Take a piece of river cobble chert from central Texas and knap it to look like an archaic "Stemmed Darl" point from north Texas.

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Pressure flakes with a copper tip Ishi stick

Check out this video to learn how to do some pressure flakin' with a copper "screwdriver" tipped Ishi stick.

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Carve Hixton Silicified Sandstone for flint knapping

Check out this video to learn how to carve Hixton Silicified Sandstone, or Hixton quartzite, like the orginal specimens from Wisconsin.

How to carve Hixton Silicified Sandstone for flint knapping
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Detail or finish a point for flint knapping

Check out this video to learn how to do the final detailing of a point with jeweler head magnifiers, tiny pressure flakes, serrations, etc.

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Punch notch arrowheads

Check out this video to learn how to do a special kind of flint knapping called punch notch.

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Flint knap an archaic point

Check out this video to learn how to do novice flint knapping on an archaic point called a Darl Point from Central Texas.

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Do novice flint knapping with aboriginal tools

Check out this video to learn how to knap chert using antler and stone.

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Learn the basics of flint knapping for boys and girls

Ole' Scalp Creek explains the basics of flint knapping for young boys and girls and their parents. He includes precautions to take ...more

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Do novice percussion flint knapping

Scalp Creek shows and discusses various percussion lithic reduction methods for novice knappers.

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Differentiate ancient arrowheads from fakes

Scalp Creek talks about the do's and don'ts of determining ancient arrowheads from modern ones that have been artificially aged.

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Make zig zag edges on bifaces

Hit flint in a zig zag formation on bifaces with flintknapping tips from scalp creek. Make your edges really sharp.

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