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Making a Green Glass Spearhead!

@lavabladez
1.4M views95.1K likes1:31ENJun 30, 2026
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This beautiful chunk of green glass sat in my rock pile for a long time so I decided to make a spearhead from it today. Of course, the first step is to bash it with a stone in the right areas to break off pieces that I can use later. As I'm doing this, I'm making sure that I'm breaking off the biggest pieces possible. Because of finished spearhead it's thin, I'm trying to break off as many thick pieces as possible in this stage. Elk Antler also helps to break the glass. Now that we've thinned it quite a bit, it's time to refine it further into more of a triangular shape. The smaller it gets, the process is still the same, just with smaller tools. The more and more I strike pieces off, the thinner and more triangular shaped it gets, and you can really see we're starting to get a spearhead shape going. Now, to further refine the spearhead and sharpen the edge, I'm using dear Antler tips to press flakes off. I use the same tool to sharpen up the very tip of the point. Now that we have the basic shape, it's time to put the notches in and the last time that I made a glass spearhead, I did a side notch, but on this one I'll do a corner notch. Now that I've created the notches, it's time to sharpen up the edge by creating serrations, by pushing in and down and creating small indentations. With a little bit of fine tuning, the spearhead is now complete. I also noticed that there's some air bubbles trapped in this glass. This color of glass is usually only used for glass bottles, so I'm wondering if the initial chunk that I started off with may have been scrapped from a factory. Either way, it made a beautiful spearhead.