One way of starting a fire is with the use of flint and steel. This method requires a tinder to catch the sparks produced when the steels strikes the flint. The tinder used oftentimes is a char cloth. I've seen some people in Youtube use chaga as tinder but the majority uses char cloth. I myself uses char cloth as tinder for flint and steel firemaking but char cloth is somewhat messy to use. While browsing the Internet, I came across a fire tinder tube from Rons Primitive Skills blog. I thought it was a very cool idea so I decided to make one.
This is the fire tinder tube from Rons Primitive Skills blog. Visit his blog to learn more about it.
The 3 cotton ropes I bought from eBay. I have charred one of the rope end and tried it with my flint and steel. It works well and not so messy as char cloth is. All I need now is the copper tube and I'm good to go. It will be a nice addition to my fire kit.
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Brrr. The temperature is really going down to almost single digit, usually in the 12-10 degrees range this week. I guess it's time to bring out the hand warmers.
My job requires me to work outside early in the morning for 1-2 hours and with these kind of weather you're sure to get numb and painful fingers, even when you have your gloves on. Before I had my hand warmer, I used to go back inside the building maybe 2 or 3 times to warm my hands and that's a lot of hustle because you have to walk quite a distance. Ever since I had my hand warmer I don't need to do that anymore.
The Jon-e hand warmer I bought in a garage sale last summer for $2. You have to fill it with lighter fluid and light it and works similar to a regular liquid filled lighter. Zippo also makes a hand warmer like this and there are China made ones that are of comparable quality. One refill will last for 8 hours, they say, but I haven't used the hand warmer that long yet.
There are also disposable single-use hand warmers and there are reusable ones that are chemically filled but they do not give enough heat. The same is true with electronic hand warmers. For me, the Jon-e type hand warmers are the best.
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I ordered online a replacement flint for my flint & steel kit. I was wondering if this kind of stone can be found in my country, the Philippines. Maybe there is another kind of stone with similar characteristics that I can use instead.
1 of the 2 English flint I ordered online for $5.
The Hudson Bay Flint & Steel Kit. Highly recommended kit.
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I got the tree in front of our house trimmed because its branches are almost touching the roof and scratching it when the wind blows. I don't even know what kind of tree it was but when I saw its wood grain, I thought it would make a good knife handle material. And so I got my tools and went on to carving a knife handle.
The knife handle almost done and the knife already epoxied in it.
Done, stained and oiled. What do you think guys?
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I first saw this set up from one Youtuber named luv2sharpen. He says this is what he carries when running on the trail because it's light and don't take much space. His plastic match box contains a fire steel, small sticks of fatwood and folded wax paper for fire making. My container below stores the same items but I added a jute twine as well.
Opinel #6 and Coghlans's plastic match box.
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