The highlight was flint-knappers chipping a piece of flint into a weapon in 10 minutes competition. An estimated 4,000 visitors and 200 vendors attend the annual three-day event at Flint Ridge.

This should be a good weekend for a knap. Not snoozing, mind you, but knapping — the ancient skill of crafting a shapeless piece of flint into a useful tool such as an ax head, spear point ...

NOEL, Mo. -- Seated on a low bench, Jim Spears used a piece of deer horn to whittle down a heavy chunk of Missouri flint. For an hour, he tapped, whacked and smoothed the hard rock until it was ...

The Flint Ridge Knap-In will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 4 to 6 at Flint Ridge State Memorial Park, 7091 Brownsville Road, Glenford.

Flint varies in color and ability to be chipped based on area it's from and if it's heat treated. COSHOCTON − People attending the Coshocton Flint Festival and Knap-In said they come in for two main ...

Wiking said he began knapping, the art of chipping flint with metal or stone tools to form a point, in 1997. “The first time I knapped, something magical happened,” Wiking said.

The Coshocton Flint Festival and Knap-In will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5 per vehicle. Camping is $40 for the event or $20 for one ...

The annual Knap-In at Bald Eagle also features an atlatl competition. A precursor to the more accurate bow and arrow, an atlatl is a spear thrower consisting of a shaft with a cup or spur at the ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - A group at Arts in the Sunset in Amarillo is continuing the tradition of flint knapping. Donald Cameron with Panhandle Flint Knappers says around 2007, he ran into a man ...

COSHOCTON − People attending the Coshocton Flint Festival and Knap-In said they come in for two main reasons — friends and flint. The event going for more than 40 years was held at the ...