How many pieces of flint?

[Brazito]

How many can you count in this picture?

The gray piece would make a nice small spear point but I don't know how to knapp. Gravel roads around here contain quite a bit of flint. I brought home another piece of this gray stuff, used it today for my first solo attempt with the steel Professor helped me make last weekend. This gray stone threw off more and better sparks than the white I have.

Here's my jute nest with charcloth, striker and yet to be used flint.

Wood scraps and shavings I scrounge at work, it just ends up in the trash if I don't keep it.

My fire pit is the bottom of an air compressor tank that had been scrapped, the white fuzzy stuff is cottonwood that was cut with a dull blade.

Success!!!!

Continued with a roaring fire to burn off my small round Lodge griddle I bought used. Had some funk on it, will wire brush and re-season it tomorrow.

 

[hunter63]

LOL, Looks like a couple of dandy's but probably a lot more......Nice one in the middle!

"Road bond" big gravel used out at the cabin, SW WI has a lot of chert, kinda a yellow rock with flint inside.

Rock covered roof tops another good place to find it as well a fossils.

Carry a piece of broken of a 8' mill bastard file in my pockjet for a "spark test".

 

[Prof]

Good work, Brazito! You have enough flint there for at least a hundred fire kits!

 

[Dux]

I find the greys give better sparks than the whites also. Whites chip more when producing sparks than greys.

Road sides are decent places to find small to med pieces around here as well. Landscaping n rooftops will occasionally pan out as well.