This Ugly Stone Hid a Beautiful Dagger

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  @Qurious_Quasar · 7 months ago

  This is exactly the type of content the world needs right now, if you ask me. Thank you.

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• CA

  @causewaykayak · 7 months ago (edited)

  I think I do &nbsp;hear a Robin &nbsp;giving off somewhere nearby.<br>Anyone else think the lighting in this video is just devastatingly excellent. &nbsp; Warm colours and natural textures working so well together. &nbsp; Brilliant watch.

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• JO

  @jodycopeland1 · 7 months ago

  Almost ignited gun powder smell

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• RI

  @rickhenninger6978 · 6 months ago

  It&apos;s OK that your video went a little long. I enjoyed every bit of it. Incredible job on that dagger.

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  @762parabillim · 7 months ago

  Re: smell of stone. &nbsp;Many years ago, I stood in an open pit in Tanzania with a geologist a day or so after a blast (Tanzanite and graphite), and he was quite convinced that he could smell an oily petroleum smell from the rock (I couldn&apos;t). &nbsp;He later posited that the graphite - a carbon mineral - in the kyanite bed was responsible. &nbsp;But then, he liked licking rocks.

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• BR

  @BryanKoenig379 · 7 months ago

  The atmosphere is great and the stone is beautiful. ❤

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• RO

  @robertmeadows7508 · 4 months ago

  You mention the smell of flint which reminded me of a black flint &nbsp;core that I have that I worked for blade / flake removals which smells so distinctly &nbsp;of oil ! &nbsp;Thank you !

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• PH

  @philiprutter1 · 4 months ago

  I was interested to hear you say &quot;you get into a zone...&quot; &nbsp;That fits with my observation that the expert knappers I&apos;ve watched have a great deal of their knowledge in their arms, hands, and fingers - the body knows how this works. &nbsp;True I think for many skills.

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• AN

  @angrytemplar7675 · 7 months ago (edited)

  I absolutely love your work Mr. Lord and wish you great fortune and success

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• TL

  @TLPerri3997 · 4 months ago

  Of all the things that has intrigued me to travel to the British Isles... History at every turn; &nbsp;...yet it is the sheer idea of tasting a bit of PRE-History, and whacking a hunk of flint which may draw me over to your side of the pond!

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  @buddydeal7695 · 7 months ago

  When you talked about not thinning it too much in the middle, I thought about what I heard once. The knapper said not to create a dumbbell. A simple but important thought.

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• PC

  @pcka12 · 1 month ago

  Years ago we were shown the basics of flint knapping in the reproduction round houses on Shapwick Moor, Somerset I was surprised at how easy it was to begin the process but to create a refined tool like an arrow head is another matter.<br>The round houses were surprisingly cosy!