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Primitive Fire: Flint and Steel

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Uploaded by on Jan 29, 2008

This is a primitive way to start a fire with a piece of flint (in this case it is english flint) and a steel striker (which is just a piece of carbon steel) when you strike a piece of carbon steel against a sharpened edge of a piece of flint the flint scrapes off tiny bits of steel (because the flint is harder than the steel) and the friction is what gets those bits of steel red hot, which is what the sparks are...In this video I catch a spark on a piece of char cloth and place it into a "birds nest" which I made out of jute twine I seperated...If you do not know what char cloth is or jute twine, you can find out easily with a quick google search...By blowing on the bundle the char cloth gets red hot and in turn heats the jute twine...It get so hot that in bursts into flames, you cna use this to start a camp fire or if you are in a survivla situation...In the case of a survival situation most people will not have a flitn and steel on them, but there are many rocks you cna find all around the wolrd that will create a spark if you hit it with a piece of steel...as for the steel, I suggest you at least carry a carbon steel knife with you if you venture into the wild, that way you can use that as your striker...I hope you enjoy the video...

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  • holy this was a year ago and it still looks like the same peice of flint

  • lol, it is the same flint, I used it maybe 10 tiems since the original video, I break the kit out once ina while as a novelty but dont use it often..

  • there was no sound for me

  • there was no sound recorded, watch the remake video...

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  • The first video that turned cutlerylover into an internet phenom!

  • wtf when it played for me it was in fast forward lol

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  • Future Jeff sent me here.

  • Nice you've lost ALOT of weight good for you Man first vid. Nice

  • First video

  • and so it began...

  • what tinder did you use

    

  • holy crap this one took me a while to find

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  • Got em all

  • second one!

  • hahahaha and Tex responds with a blastmatch review...nice

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