Flint & Steel Fire Using Tinder Fungus

[bribop95]

*cut thumb off

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.......

[ashleetkd12]

i miss the island :/

me and my mom will be up this july

- ashlee godbold :)

[yotamarker]

where did you find the flint (the sharp grey stone ) ?

[Ekulytes]

Cool demonstration man.

[TheJosiah12345]

careful or u might chop ur finger off lol

[DarkMasteLink101]

@TheJosiah12345

He had the knife facing backwards, lol but just in case, I would try finding another steel resource for striking

[southtexasatlatl]

That was awesome!

[ATTIPAT501]

and SMACK! "MY THUMB!"

[snocamo154]

You can take punk wood and char it like you do charcloth and it will take sparks and burn like charcloth. Sometimes, you can't find old cotton T-shirts or flammable fungus in the woods, but there's always some punk wood laying around to char into a spark catcher to drop into a tinder bundle like you do charcloth.

Punk wood is dead wood that's not quite rotten (crumbles easily), but still holds it shape. Dead pinetrees make good punkwood. Probably any kind of dead resinous wood will.

[buckshot752]

Me and my brother tried that with our mora 840s on some quartz. didn't get much spark and beat the hell out of the backs of the blades. We changed to a striker made from a file. No problem after that.

[NilezII]

I finally did it!

[bushcraftmyway]

how do you prepare the tinder fungus? is there any special way to prepare the fungus or is it just a piece of it, straight from the tree?

[MrRunningwolfe]

Could you do a video on Mag-lighters ? I have one and I must be doing something wrong. I have more luck cutting my finger than starting a fire. What am I doing wrong ? Can you demonstraight ?

[fallenspirit123]

is it posasible for me to find some flint in tennesse? I dont want to order it online, i mean can I find it in my area?

[hqzoot]

Very cool video! I wish we had chert and flint in the Northeast.. maybe there is some, but I just have never seen any. Great video. Keep it up :D

[flamedrag18]

I haven't been able to find any either, but you can use any rock harder then steel, look up the geology of your area to find hard quartz and you'll be in business, or buy it online.

[trillingen92]

mora! sweden:) cool video

[cjonesrocks10]

cool. thanks for sharing!

[xx1madawgxx3]

great vid!!

[PrimitiveDude]

Thanks!

[gswiaczny]

"Rusty but trusty" hehe funny ^^ cool vid though

[hobbexp]

i like the knife to

[hobbexp]

nice,  5/5 i like to knife!! :0)

[jeremiahfodgother]

This is a very good video, thank you.

[bluetoad2001]

thanks for the video. excellent. i have been looking for the hoof fungus locally. no luck yet. North Missouri thanks again

buzz

[bob1698183]

I have 2 Carbon Moras (511 and 840), I have no problem with a striker and flint, but I just can't get a spark with my Moras.

Did yours spark out of the box, or did you have to doctor it?

I've tried filing the back of the blade.

[PrimitiveDude]

Mine spark right off without doctoring. That was relatively soft chert I was using too.

[masteroffajitas]

How didn't you hit your thumb?

[PrimitiveDude]

Just lucky, I guess.

[ashcaw]

Good work.

[giulianopietra]

Bravo molto semplice e interessante come hai presentato l'esperimento.

Bravo very easy and interesting as you presented the experiment.

[PrimitiveDude]

Grazie!

[survivethewild]

Nice job. Was that true tinder fungus or the amadou from false tinder fungus?

[PrimitiveDude]

Thanks. It is true tinder fungus, Inonotus Obliquus, that I collected from a standing birch tree.

[survivethewild]

Ok, thanks. I got a bunch of that. Good stuff. I just wasn't sure from the video.

Thanks.