We got two more guys in.
A true overshot - unlike coast to coast - will turn 90 degrees and exit the opposite side of the stone, before reaching the other side. A coast to coast flake will cut through the other side, but not turn.
This process creates the bend that makes the turn via fulcrum forces. Jamming against the backside is a small part of the equation. But, there are bigger parts, with regard to the pressure systems.
All of the people with archaeological backgrounds are immediately eyeing the tools and saying that these are the tools that they find. Only, they never knew before that such tools could be used in such a manner.
I am currently teaching a Navajo knapper through Facebook. So, I am actually doing some finished point work, so he can learn. That being said, I have been very busy everyday communicating with many people. And, more people are wanting to learn.
Also, as was expected, some of the people who are learning and who are creating stellar flaking, and stellar overshots, have only been knapping for a few months. They are new. They might not understand the implications of what they are making. And, the old "gurus" - the same people who always want my work banned - will not even speak to many of these new knappers who have done fantastic overshot work, with just brief training.
So, I have to focus on making sure that these guys are okay. To give an example, a five year knapper who does stellar work was the second guy to learn the process. He immediately threw incredible overshots that look exactly like Hogeye cache overshots, with my brief training. An old guru got on his thread and said, "You are just "wasting" rock." And, my guy fired back.
The following day, another old guru told his buddy on a thread that everyone should just try to "ignore" it all. So, here you have new knappers producing stuff that no one has ever seen IN MODERN HISTORY. And, maybe they do not even understand it, because they are new. And, you have old gurus giving them the cold shoulder for it, and refusing to speak to them. It is sickening. All of these people to some extent are being put through the stuff I was put through, and by the same people.
That being said, people are looking at coming back full force, with their flintknapping, because it no longer seems possible that people will even be able to say that "copper is better". I have new knappers pulling stuff in raw rock that it is doubtful could be done with copper. And, the actual flaking effects are stellar. I already have collectors writing and saying that they believe I found the way certain paleo-flaking was actually done. And, we are not just talking about "visuals". Visuals are superficial, and finished points can lie. The way a finished point can lie is that the maker can hide the marks of what he did previously. So, we are openly achieving affects in raw stone, and other materials, that have not been seen before.
As for the "sandwich" method, the associates of Cushing's wrote "clamped under the knee". So, it was there all along, as recorded by someone who studied the indians, back in the 19th century.
More people are contacting me. Gotta go....
Best of luck,
Look up KnapYucatan on Facebook.
Ben
