Everybody has different motivations and reasons for knapping, or any other hobby for that matter-and nothing is right or wrong. Some people simply want to make the most perfect points they can. You can take a rock, slab it up with a diamond saw, grind it to shape and cross section on a machine, then run a pass of pressure flakes and flute it with a mechanical jig or notch and serrate it with diamond files, and wind up with an absolutely perfect point that makes people go wow. And there's nothing wrong with that if that's what you like doing, but you might miss out on a bit of the magic that makes knapping so attractive to most people, and you might not learn a lot about how and why things were done the original way. Another person might work nothing but tough quartz rock with abo tools for the enjoyment and challenge of trying to figure out how it was done and never make anything that will make people ooh and ahhh. And that's fine, too. Most of us are somewhere in between. I do think that I'm much more impressed by a hand-fluted point than a jig-fluted one, even if it doesn't have flutes running out both tips. Most original Clovis points didn't have long, exaggerated flutes anyway. The people who made the Cumberland points may have used some kind of lever, or maybe not. I certainly doubt that a nomadic hunter would carry a big bulky mechanical contraption around just to flute points with. If they used anything mechanical, I would say that it would have been something like Swoose's forked stick method of fluting that could be done on the spot from local materials. If your family only makes one style of point for a couple thousand years, you probably would get pretty good at it eventually.
