The rock I used isn't flint I know that for a fact. I don't really know what the make up of it is but it works like a dream.
Some pictures and a video below. The stuff I used to make the new char cloth are breast pocket flaps from an old warn out cotton canvas field shirt.
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File, stone, wasp's nest, some char cloth and other goodies in there. Finding pieces of wasps nest is always a bit of good luck. Makes a great material to blow a coal into to get a flame.
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Close up of the squared end on the file and the stone I'll be using.
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Set up and getting ready to spark it.
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Video of sparking and blowing the coal to flame in the wasp nest tender.
Charring in action.
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Finished char, turned out real good.
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Pretty nice story and pics,man. I have a few flintstrikers made from pieces of old small files as well. I have just removed the teeths after getting em redhot, then i have ground down the teeths,and drilled a lanyard hole and stamped my sign on them. Then just heat em up golden red hot,quenched em in to ice &salt water,and they work like a dream.
ReplyDeleteBy the way....nice to see others who use also the Tracker knife,no matter everyone else says but i like mine lot.
Thanks for the wasp's nest tip. Didn't know that.
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