Ken’s Do-It-Yourself Flint & Steel Kit is very inexpensive and easy to make. The following list includes the elements and description of their uses.
Metal Container - This “Altoid” mint candy tin is great. It houses the kit, and can be used to create char cloth.
Char Cloth - Carbonized cotton cloth used to catch a spark.
Cotton [...]
I started exploring the idea that safety match-book matches might be lit if I treated them like fire-by-friction wood… that is, if I pre-heated the match by rubbing it slightly before I used a mild friction surface to strike on. It worked on the ceramic bottom of a cup, so I enthusiasticly showed my son [...]
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I was recently given a Swedish Mora Knife - a prized knife by those involved in bushcraft. After noting that the blade was carbon steel, I knew that I had to use it to create fire by striking the back of it against flint. Yep! it works. But then I noticed that it is REALLY [...]
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