Flint & Steel Fire Using Tinder Fungus

Using materials collected on Bois Blanc Island, Michigan.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Fire
• Flint
• Steel
• Tinder
• Fungus
• Chert
• Mora
• Knife
• Bois
• Blanc
• Island
• Bob
• Lo

[xx1madawgxx3]

great vid!!

[PrimitiveDude]

Thanks!

[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.

[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.

[DarkMasteLink101]

@TheJosiah12345

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

[TheJosiah12345]

careful or u might chop ur finger off lol

[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.