Using a Traditional Flint and Steel...
Brilliant video Ash, wish id seen this when i got my first flint and steel
Robb
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I hope thats a birchbark canoe in your pocket.... - I guess i should give some credit to Metal Mug
Thanks for the video, very clear and concise.
Will have to make one of those steels, was it from an old file?
Excellent video Ash! I'll have to share that with my re-enacting friends.
Very easy to make fire from this method, it was the first way I learned to make fire, when you get the fire going it's satisfying.
Yet another brilliant tutorial!
I am in Norway. No flint in the entire country. It does not exist here as a natural resource at all. Any alternative types of stone that can be used?
Thanks for the welcome :-)
Quartz, just looked it up on an online geological map, and there is a source of that in my neighbourhood. Only problem is that we are still covered in half a meter of snow, so I'll have to wait for that to melt, as i don't fancy digging randiomly trough the snow for a piece of rock!
Anyway, I picked up a steel on a whim at a souvenir shop a few years ago. It was made in the traditional way by a black smith, and I remeber it was quite pricey, so it's probably the real deal :-)
Anyway it's been sitting on a shelf ever since, as we have no flint here. But I'll keep my eyes out for some flint next time I go to that area of the woods around here :-)
The snow has melted in my driveway, so I wen't out and had a look, and did indeed fine some bits of quartz and was able to make some nice sparks with my striker. But I am out of tinder so I did not try to make a fire, but that will be next :-)
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I liked the way you collected resin ash great idea.