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I just purchased this fire steel knife thinking I'd like to try learning flint & steel fire starting method. Can someone recommend a cheap source of flint stone? Thank you. Also is char-cloth an absolute necessity in starting a flint & steel fire or are there other suitable materials? Made a couple neat little pouches tonight and wanted to offer them up here. I made myself one (the first two pics) for a lightweight flint and steel pouch. But they could be used for whatever you want. They are big enough to hold your flint, steel and some tinder / char cloth. These are made out... After a 10 year hiatus, I decided to get back into black powder shooting again. I have a Thompson Center Arms .50 cal. flint lock kit gun I built over 2 decades ago and a TVM .54 cal. Late Lancaster flint lock. Currently I am working on developing a hunting load for the T/C rifle. Yesterday, I... Emberlit flint and steel striker review Emberlit makes some very cool looking striker designs. So when the wife was placing an order on Amazon I had her order one for me. It came with a large piece of "flint". I got a few sparks off the supplied flint but even more rock chips. Flint and steel sparks are nowhere near as hot as those coming off a ferro rod. There are only a few materials that will light with flint and steel without being charred. I don't know if drier lint is one of them (I don't think so), but in general, if you want your sparks to land; they have to drop onto something that has already been charred.
A buddy of mine made a nice little bushcraft knife out of a 1095 carbon steel blank. Not sure what process he put it through as far as tempering and heat treating but I can't get it to throw sparks. I've tried English Flint, Chert and Quartz. Not a single spark from any of them. My WCF striker... The DNR hasn't posted any results for Flint River but when they do, I will add them to the report I maintain for this forum's members. Here's a LINK. Here is a steel striker that I made yesterday for a flint and steel kit. I have been making them from 1/4" coil springs from overhead doors. It is a pretty... Working Up A Hunting Load For T/C Arms Rifle Hawken Flint Lock Rfle. On the other hand, flint is usually found with sharp edges and also breaks to form more sharp edges. Consistent composition - Whereas flint is just flint, agates often contain weak quartz centers, holes, or varying degrees of jasper-like shades (like the first agate I tried). These impurities interfere with things like striking that require ...
