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Kano Kroil love this stuff auto trans fluid was developed to replace whale oil (sometimes called sweet oil)

just use mutton tallow, unlike beef or pork it does not go bad (make sure it's salt free) every time I used bees wax, I would get a hard ring(crud ring)

just a note there is a box fan off camera blowing the dust/micro flakes away from us

if you sand, grind or file flints DON'T breather the dust it's micro glass that will cut your lung tissue use a good filter mask or make a water slurry to keep dust out of the air you breath when I knap/make gun flints I do it outside with a cross breeze or a fan blowing away the micro...

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https://stonewallcreekoutfitters.com/flints/ if you are blessed with chert/agate/jasper in your area are all forms of chert/flint and can make fine gun flints. if you can scratch glass with it then try sparking on a steel/file see if you can cleave it into useable shapes

track has good flints but you must ask for flat ones or try these fine people https://stonewallcreekoutfitters.com/flints/

Yup you can make them

agate is a form of chert all flints are chert , german cut agate is sold with lesser flinters . take any rock (your arrow heads) try to scratch glass if it does then see if it sparks (glass hardness 5 flints/cherts 7 diamonds 10) agate jasper chert flint and quartz all sio2 Chert is a hard...

expect a lot of waist and long learning curve but it is fun/addicting safety glasses (a must)and cut resistant gloves helpyou can make most of the tools start with flakes (easy to make into gun flints)then try it from blades

I learned from watching you tube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtMmFSuRMHQxn5mpg_ABJWg https://www.youtube.com/user/Flintknappingtips https://www.youtube.com/user/clarchaeology/videos

sparks great very hard to knap Richard P. use to make them from flakes and people loved them ( I could never re-edge them once dull ,but they took a long time to dull)

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Don Getz if you can find one, Bobby Hoyt, Green mtn never tried a rice or Coleraingetz below hoyt abovehoyt above green mtn below yet

you might be able to pressure flake or hold in a vise (leather wrapped) and chip a new edge with a step Knapper tapped with a small hammer

look up schimmel (barn gun no butt plate ,only one pipe rod holder) Allen Martin has made a several (Chuck Dixon made them) https://www.blackpowdermag.com/allen-martin-builds-a-schimmel/

drill cloth is used for pockets in most jeans, tight weave 100 % cotton