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[No Name Bushcraft]

Fire steels with a thumb rest

Not my cup of tea, but they are an interesting piece of history.



Source: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8076075/one-of-three-fire-steels-with-thumb-pieces-at-top


Source: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8076076/fire-steel-flemish-large-size


Source: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8076069/one-of-a-series-of-thirty-one-fire-steels

 

[halo2]

Fire steels with a thumb rest

Not my cup of tea, but they are an interesting piece of history.


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Source: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8076075/one-of-three-fire-steels-with-thumb-pieces-at-top

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Source: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8076076/fire-steel-flemish-large-size

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Source: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8076069/one-of-a-series-of-thirty-one-fire-steels

Those are kind of neat!

 

[Gii shi kan dug]

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Vintage or repo?

 

[No Name Bushcraft]

Vintage or repo?

Unfortunately, I don't have any reliable information about this particular item.

 

[DavidJAFO]

hello,
At present I don't have access to the tools, but I do have crucifixion nails of a similar size, that could be hammered into the same shape as the steel striker. Both myself & a good friend of mine who has access to a forge could possibly create such, time permitted. France & Scotland the auld Alliance 1295AD.
Regards
David
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[One of ] A Series of thirty-one Fire-steels (lengths of most 3 to 4 ins); all believed to be Scottish; similar in general to English steels, but on the whole more ornate (a result, no doubt, of former intercourse with France), the tang or tangs at back being more often and more ornamentally twisted or coiled; one type, having curious thumb-piece at top, represented by five examples (nos. 308-312) and unknown in England, was probably introduced from France or Flanders, where it occurs; another type, believed to be exclusively Scottish, and represented by two examples (nos. 313-314), is roughly rectangular, with a striking face on each edge, a pipe-pricker hinged on to one end, folding down into a groove on one side. Scotland.

 

[No Name Bushcraft]

Shabake (しゃばけ)
s1e2, 2025

 

[DavidJAFO]

hello,
I see you lurking there J.D @MrFixIt Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are...
And meet the young lady lad who fell from a star
She he fell from the sky, she he fell very far
And Kansas Jawjuh she he says, is the name of the star. (typing out loud) I think I've sniffed way too much Jawjuh phatwood this morning!!
Regards
David