Perfect Flint and Steel Fire-Making

My friend, Tman, is going to demonstrate how to start a fire with charcloth, flint, and hardened steel striker. This is very impressive.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Flint
• tinder
• survival
• fire
• making
• light
• strike
• charcloth
• kindling
• flint
• and
• steel

[retusyllib]

It's hard to find a piece of flint in the wilds. Easy to find a piece of quartz. Use a carbon steel knife blade, not stainless it won't work, and scrap the quartz. You got sparks. Find a pine tree, easy they are everywhere in the wilds, and collect some pine resin. Resin is full of terpines, flamable stuff. Resin, dried pine needles, scrap some sparks on it, and you got fire. Not just fire, but really hot fire from the terpines. Be careful as the terpines drip hot flames.

[oobergooberkc]

good advice. pine tar is flamable stuff. never tried quartz and hardened steel, sounds cool. its really hard to get flint sparks from anything to catch a flame, even with charcloth (almost impossible without) and pine tar would have to be high on the chain. maybe fine cedar shavings, then dry grass, then birch bark, then pine tar. Thanks alot for the reply, keep up the woodcraft knowledge man.

[therocketeer118]

@aaaarrrgggghh I'd suggest just making the charcloth yourself. Just wrap some cotton balls or facial pads in an airtight pocket of aluminum foil and poke a small hole in the top. Place it on some hot coals (hole facing up) and wait until all the white smoke billows out. Let it cool, then open the pocket to get at the charcloth.

[therocketeer118]

@SweedRaver Well, the preferred way wouldn't be this way. However, aspects of it (like cedar bark, birch bark) would definitely been used to catch the coal for other methods that also generate a coal. Such popular methods include the hand drill, bow drill, ice sphere, fire piston, and the fire saw. Look them up!

Also consider the use of iron-containing pyrite rocks to strike on. Allan Beauchamp did just that.

[SweedRaver]

Let's assume for nearly a moment that I'm going back in time to the stone age, and thus don't have access to any metal. What would then be the preferred way to make fire?

[xMrjamjam]

thumbs up if you think city life is shit i do

[aaaarrrgggghh]

I ran out of specialist shops where to get charcloth from

[Spikestrip55]

Great demo; thanks!

[bushna2007]

I'm telling your mother that you're playing with fire!!!

[broomstickization]

@goeiecool9999 its green

[goeiecool9999]

not so smart to do it on grass

[destroyerofworlds7]

@firebug0001 Ive actually only cut my knuckles once so far and ive been doing this for a few years haha.