Interesting fluting technique

[Taxus brevifolia]

This is quite interesting, if you haven't seen it yet. I'm familiar with the chest crutch technique for blade cores, but this is a new one on me.
"Fluting the Cumberland"
https://youtu.be/sZCY5GL4xbc

[GlisGlis]

if you google for "flintknapping fluting jig" you'll find quite alot of types
My only concern is that is pretty unlikely any of these could be historically used by ancestors

[Ryan Jacob]

Speaking of which, what did they use? I only see jig work or spalling flakes go as long as some of the fultes on the artifacts

[Taxus brevifolia]

The only thing I've seen offered up by way of explanation with paleo tools are a chest crutch and various levers used with prismatic blade cores.

Prismatic Blade Core series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNsY4bgHOkxUEIBfssd9hRKNBERAsaTGd


https://www.jstor.org/stable/278596?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

[Chippintuff]

That is just a Solberger Jig (do a search on it). They can do excellent work, but with any long fluting the real challenge is getting the preform shaped exactly right. I do not Make cumberlands, but the flutes and other end thinning flakes that I take are done with indirect.

WA