Snowflake Obsidian Clovis - Part 5 of 5: Finishing, Fluting, and Failing
Channel: Prehistoric Living
Date: 2019-02-27

Setting up the flute platform... and failing hard. After a nice round of finishing pressure flaking I over confidently set up a really strong fluting platform and dug in too hard, with the flute diving through the piece and cutting it in half, but giving me and hopefully you a good learning opportunity in the process. I decided to post this anyways because, well why not eh? We all learn from mistakes, and hopefully you can learn from mine. I'll try again in a future video, I really do like Clovis points and they're a lot of fun to make. My goal now will be to figure out how to get that flute to travel far without breaking the piece in half. I might try peeling it off by pressure using a chest crutch and stabilizing device, that could be fun.

Sorry it took me a week longer to get this final video posted, technical difficulties!

Check out the other videos from the series:
Snowflake Obsidian Clovis - Part 1 of 5: Rough Biface to Rough Preform - https://youtu.be/bzGYgHNLsCk

Snowflake Obsidian Clovis - Part 2 of 5: Rough Biface to Rough Preform - https://youtu.be/a5ztMlaZinc

Snowflake Obsidian Clovis - Part 3 of 5: Rough Preform to Final Stage Preform - https://youtu.be/MKqcc_sHwio

Snowflake Obsidian Clovis - Part 4 of 5: Rough Preform to Final Stage Preform - https://youtu.be/Ep3xcjz4C3U