AVERAGE AMERICAN FLINTNAPPER
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1 - ARCHEOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE

     Aware of a few North American point types of generic shape of end product only.

2 - KNOWLEDGE OF MODERN FLINTKNAPPING

     Aware of a few modern knappers such as Waldorf, Blackwell and maybe a very few traditionalists such as Bradley, Nunn, and Callahan.

3 - TOOLS

Copper billets
Copper pressure flakers
Rock saws
Grinding machines
Lever machines

CLIFFSIDE TRAINED KNAPPER
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     Knowledge of two million some years of stone tool evolution world wide:  hand-axes, blade cores and blades, choppers, flake cores and flake types, stone axes and adzes, microblades, Levallois, Neo-lithic tool technology, block-on-block, bipolar, and finally more recent point types through their correct preform stages according to their cultural background -- as shown through the archeological record.

     Aware of those experimental archeologists that rediscovered stone tool science, such as Crabtree, Sollberger, Bordes, Titmus, Tixier, Callahan, Bradley, Pelegrin, and others that went before them into legitimate flintknapping.

Soft stone hammers
Antler billets
Hardwood billets
Antler punches
Antler and copper-tipped pressure flakers
Ishi sticks with antler and wooden tips
Natural abrading stones