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(E) Student Practice for Flint & Steel with Char Cloth
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-Tshirt sleeve
-Altoids tin
-Woodstove
> Made char cloth.
Cooled tin. Checked, successful char cloth.
- @Red Yeti striker (My latest one)
-Flint
-Char cloth
-Curls
Ember placed with more char cloth on curls, in tin.
Blew it gently to flame
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I did this challenge in conjunction with the improvising a steel striker. I used my svord peasant to ignite my char cloth then used the fire to make more char cloth. I am now sufficiently stocked up. I had difficulty capturing pics. My ember went out originally trying to photograph it and went up so fast the second time I wasn’t to photograph it before I put my twigs on.
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I had enjoyed the flint and steel exercise, probably did it a year ago. I still do not own an Altoids tin. I had to buy flint though. There are not many hard rocks in my part of Florida. We have coquina and sand. So I tried marble and granite from building scraps and got some random sparks from the granite. The flint worked well. I hope you all enjoyed this exercise.
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Tenderbox1 Look for landscape rocks at a garden center or Lowes or Home depot. A lot of them are Chert.
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Thanks for the FYI.
I have plenty of chert that I collected from our property in Tennessee. Just when I did the class, I didn't have supplies.
I used my kit from @kcardwel for this practice session. I made my char cloth out of an old pair of 100% cotton blue jeans in a small tin during a previous fire. Poked a hole in the top, tossed it on top of a log and promptly forgot about it. Must have remembered just in time though, because it was charred perfectly.The steel and chert threw great sparks, caught an ember and got it rolling.
Stuffed it in my tinder bundle.
It's smoking.
And it's on fire!
The scariest part for me is using one of those camp stoves! honest. I have some around for emergencies, but i've never lit one and don't know much about them.
Thank you. Well, y’all taught me a ton for the past few months and I am able to just execute!
I did miss last light to finish the solar ignition elective. Kiddos dinner and bedtime take priority!
I did miss last light to finish the solar ignition elective. Kiddos dinner and bedtime take priority!
That’s one BA fire steel sir.
That came from my Buddy across the pond. @DavidJAFO
hello,
@I am Daywalker "Dory" named by my friends daughter, it's a one off. I'm 99.95% positive there's no other made like so, from an ingot of British (Welsh) steel.
Regards
David
Very nice sir.
Nothing in particular sir, I just love strikers I have several and collect and occasionally make some. Just when something strikes my fancy.
hello,
@I am Daywalker "Dory" caught my attentions as the striker design was originally intended as a piece of jewellery, & as it was made from a ingot of British steel from the Port Talbot steel works of South Wales (where there be dragon's), & so F&S came to mind. I'm sure @HillbillyHiker will have a few more years of use before "Dory" is worn down to the nub.
Regards
David
@I am Daywalker "Dory" caught my attentions as the striker design was originally intended as a piece of jewellery, & as it was made from a ingot of British steel from the Port Talbot steel works of South Wales (where there be dragon's), & so F&S came to mind. I'm sure @HillbillyHiker will have a few more years of use before "Dory" is worn down to the nub.
Regards
David
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Not allowed open fires in my neck of the woods, so I decided that on one of my outings, I'd make some char cloth. I chose a grass bundle as my tinder, one thing I learned is, just because there's no flames with a grass bundle, doesn't mean it won't burn, I nearly walked away in disgust, I figured I'd take the unburnt ends and fluff them up and over the burnt part, then woosh, it burst into flames! Success! It's been wet the past two days and it was snowing earlier so that's why the trouble with it burning.
Good job
That's fantastic
Nice job sir.
It’s a stormy night here so everything was in the kitchen and in my wood burning stove. Charcloth was made up on the stove. I have an old t shirt that is a cotton / hemp blend that makes great, hot-burning charcloth. Flint and steel was a gift a couple days ago from the missus for Christmas.
I used the technique taught in another bush class to divide kindling in pencil, lead, pencil and thumb diameter. In this instance, without twigs I made pine curls for the pencil lead thickness kindling. Tinder bundle was some un-spun jute rope in a cardboard taco.
The jute put out some very flammable wood gas that gave me a flame over and singed my beard while trying to get ignition! I’ll need to watch that in the future but hot burning tinder is otherwise a good thing.
I used the technique taught in another bush class to divide kindling in pencil, lead, pencil and thumb diameter. In this instance, without twigs I made pine curls for the pencil lead thickness kindling. Tinder bundle was some un-spun jute rope in a cardboard taco.
The jute put out some very flammable wood gas that gave me a flame over and singed my beard while trying to get ignition! I’ll need to watch that in the future but hot burning tinder is otherwise a good thing.
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Great work!
Definitely have to watch how you blow that flame...they have a tendency to want to kiss your face
Just a heads up, depending on your shavings (your pine curls), often, if those shavings are fine enough, you can skip the jute twine completely and get a flame from the ember right in those shavings. Often I just use shavings as my bird's nest. Some folks, like @Yohawk and @MrFixIt light their feather sticks with a charcloth ember...
Looking great @ManOfTheWest
That’s probably a good quality test of curls and feather sticks. Mine suck and are probably too fat. More practice will be needed to get there.Great work!
Definitely have to watch how you blow that flame...they have a tendency to want to kiss your face
Just a heads up, depending on your shavings (your pine curls), often, if those shavings are fine enough, you can skip the jute twine completely and get a flame from the ember right in those shavings. Often I just use shavings as my bird's nest. Some folks, like @Yohawk and @MrFixIt light their feather sticks with a charcloth ember...
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Looking great @ManOfTheWest
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That’s probably a good quality test of curls and feather sticks. Mine suck and are probably too fat. More practice will be needed to get there.
lol, you got this!
And I think the fat curls like to be referred to as, "thicc"
