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About Jon Moore
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My name is Jon Moore and I have been knapping for about a year. Due to my
involvement in flintknapping, this has been one of the most fulfilling years of my life. It
has been a year of constant study, both visually and hands-on. Three key things have given
me a better understanding of the art of the ancients; the help of 20th Century Lithics Vol. 1,
a copy of Bob Patton’s Old Tools New Eyes, and the sting of Ronnie’s back hand.
The first time I met Ronnie Hazlett was briefly, at The 7th Annual Kentucky Primitive
Arts Festival and Knap-In, in 2008. It was at that festival I caught, “knapping fever”…
and there was only one prescription: learn to flintknap. In my excitement, I forgot to find
information on how to contact this guy that was talking to me about flintknapping. After
two months, hours of searching on the internet, literally fifty phone calls (to various
knappers across the nation), I finally figured out who Ronnie Hazlett was and how to
locate him.
My first approach to knapping was much like that of someone chopping wood, or better
yet, someone driving rail road spikes; but, with Ronnie’s natural feel for the art and his
patient teaching style (much like that of the Bible’s Job), he has helped me to evolve from:
Homo Ergaster, up to maybe Cro Magnon (maybe). When I first came into the art (and
still sometimes today), I was as stubborn as a mule, with “hoof hands” to match. Over the
months of teaching and scavenging chips: Ronnie and I have built more than platforms.
Ronnie has given me friendship and trust, like a brother. I met Justin Eldridge at the 2008
Bardstown Knap-In. He was also an eager teacher, and has become a good friend. Justin
and Ronnie are both very skilled knappers, and I am honored to be associated with them.
Everyone loves the perfect clovis or a well notched pinetree, but I am more intrigued by
the older, simpler, knapping times. Like: cores, core blades, hand axes, un-hafted flint
knives, scrapers, uniface multi-tools, and drills. Though I have made a handful of clovis
points and various other points, my joy is the older stuff, and making working models of
the weapons of old: spears, hatchets, axes, and hafted knives even.
In the future, I look forward to honing my knapping skills; especially in clovis culture
replicas. I am excited about displaying my items on www.kentuckyknappers.com and
attending upcoming knap-ins. I would like to end, by saying thanks to those people who
have helped me thus far along the way: thanks to Ronnie, for his constant guidance and
company. To Justin, for making me feel welcome with the “Big Dogs”, and for the well-
made gift you at the Bardstown knap-in (which I have used). Also, thanks to Neil
Spalding, for a few lessons in other primitive arts besides flintknapping. Thanks to
Dennis Kerns, for tips on flint and for showing me around the Bardstown knap-in. And to
Perry Smith, for the one-on-one help and allowing myself, first pick of your sweet
obsidian. Most of all, I would like to thank www.kentuckyknappers.com; without the help
of you guys, I couldn’t even hold a billet.
Jonathan Moore
2009
involvement in flintknapping, this has been one of the most fulfilling years of my life. It
has been a year of constant study, both visually and hands-on. Three key things have given
me a better understanding of the art of the ancients; the help of 20th Century Lithics Vol. 1,
a copy of Bob Patton’s Old Tools New Eyes, and the sting of Ronnie’s back hand.
The first time I met Ronnie Hazlett was briefly, at The 7th Annual Kentucky Primitive
Arts Festival and Knap-In, in 2008. It was at that festival I caught, “knapping fever”…
and there was only one prescription: learn to flintknap. In my excitement, I forgot to find
information on how to contact this guy that was talking to me about flintknapping. After
two months, hours of searching on the internet, literally fifty phone calls (to various
knappers across the nation), I finally figured out who Ronnie Hazlett was and how to
locate him.
My first approach to knapping was much like that of someone chopping wood, or better
yet, someone driving rail road spikes; but, with Ronnie’s natural feel for the art and his
patient teaching style (much like that of the Bible’s Job), he has helped me to evolve from:
Homo Ergaster, up to maybe Cro Magnon (maybe). When I first came into the art (and
still sometimes today), I was as stubborn as a mule, with “hoof hands” to match. Over the
months of teaching and scavenging chips: Ronnie and I have built more than platforms.
Ronnie has given me friendship and trust, like a brother. I met Justin Eldridge at the 2008
Bardstown Knap-In. He was also an eager teacher, and has become a good friend. Justin
and Ronnie are both very skilled knappers, and I am honored to be associated with them.
Everyone loves the perfect clovis or a well notched pinetree, but I am more intrigued by
the older, simpler, knapping times. Like: cores, core blades, hand axes, un-hafted flint
knives, scrapers, uniface multi-tools, and drills. Though I have made a handful of clovis
points and various other points, my joy is the older stuff, and making working models of
the weapons of old: spears, hatchets, axes, and hafted knives even.
In the future, I look forward to honing my knapping skills; especially in clovis culture
replicas. I am excited about displaying my items on www.kentuckyknappers.com and
attending upcoming knap-ins. I would like to end, by saying thanks to those people who
have helped me thus far along the way: thanks to Ronnie, for his constant guidance and
company. To Justin, for making me feel welcome with the “Big Dogs”, and for the well-
made gift you at the Bardstown knap-in (which I have used). Also, thanks to Neil
Spalding, for a few lessons in other primitive arts besides flintknapping. Thanks to
Dennis Kerns, for tips on flint and for showing me around the Bardstown knap-in. And to
Perry Smith, for the one-on-one help and allowing myself, first pick of your sweet
obsidian. Most of all, I would like to thank www.kentuckyknappers.com; without the help
of you guys, I couldn’t even hold a billet.
Jonathan Moore
2009
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