Making Char Cloth

[Mostlyharmless1985]

Works fine. A few things I noticed:

Start with a fresh layed set of coals, if smoke is an issue, with a hot enough fire, you can place a coal near the vent, to burn the escaping gas. If you use an old set of coals, you might not get enough heat to do this. This works fine with ordinary cotton balls. The resulting char keeps the properties of the original ball, so you can stuff quite a bit of it in a film canister for a watertight emergency fire starting kit.

[enjoistaind]

is it just me or did you skip steps 3 and 4

[belgazery]

go turtle go

[swadet20]

weak using a lighter use a piece of steel and a chunk of real flint.

[Dumbo230]

i only have a flint at the moment and was going to buy a magnesium stick but this is probably cheaper, thanks alot

[deauzie]

wow never new about this thanks

[dxgmaster]

is cotton fabric just a t-shirt

[markjjustiniano]

yes i made alot

[diggyj]

wow I do it with cotton jeens and sometimes you can use raw cotton but it burns to fast!

[Mace99X]

TYVM!

I recently ordered a flint and magnesium stick off of ebay, and this really goes along with it. Just buy a magnesium stick with flint in it, then use a knife and shave off some magnesium. Put about a quarter size of shavings on a square of char-cloth. strike the flint with the dull side of the knife, getting a spark to land on the magnesium shavings. This creates heat SO hot, you can do it in the rain with wet wood.

[gmdiiv]

The magnesium precludes the need to use char-cloth. They will both catch a spark very well. Only the magnesium works when wet. You need the shavings because only the edge of the shavings are small enough to catch a spark. You don't want to handle the char-cloth too much because of the oils on your skin, and the super-fine fuzz on the surface that catches the spark are flatened with contact.

[bowcatz]

Good video, but there is no sound.

[TheLordHunter]

Hence the subtitles!