Flint and Steel Kits

PastorMarko

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Going to put a few examples of flint and steel kits here.

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This is a very nice English Flint and Steel kit with hand made steel striker.
Comes with char cloth, English Flint, jute for birds nest.

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Flint and Steel Kit in a tin. The tin can actually be used to make char cloth.
Kit contains two pieces of flint, some char cloth and some jute to make a birds nest with and C striker.

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Complete Flint and Steel Kit with C Striker, char cloth, jute and 2 pieces of flint, nice, thick waterproof storage
bag to keep everything dry.

Vern's Flint and Steel on ebay make all of these kits.
If you guys and gals order one or request more info, please be sure to tell him Pastor Marko sent you. :)
Vern is a very nice man and makes very good quality items, he really cares about making his customers happy.
 
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Nice kits. I love true flint and steel fire making!
 
true flint & steel firestarting is a stone mother to do in the middle of a Nebraska winter when you can't feel your fingers! (which means I need to find my kit and practice -- I've become lazy...)
 
I've gotten some wicked cuts doing flint and steel firestarting in the deep cold. When your hands are so cold you don't feel the pain at first.:D
 
ayup - that would be it.
like I said - I got lazy. :D
maybe that's why I quit doing those winter camps up there.
 
I've been wanting to give that a try. I've seen a few of those kits around the web lately. I should man up and finally try it.
 
I picked up a real nice kit from grannystore.com a couple years ago. Flint and steel firemaking is a blast. Plus it really blows folks minds to see ya use the old style means of making fire.
 
I was watching an episode of Daniel Boone the other night on T.V.

Mingo made a fire with a bow drill and talked about using flint and steel.

I thought it was pretty cool.
 
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Where's the fun in that? :D
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How is a butane lighter not fun ;)

Seriously though, in Victoria, AUS, its either so wet and cold I need the butane lighter and hexamine or so hot and dry that I not only don't need a fire, I'm not allowed to light one because of fire danger.

The flint's still cool though
 
I've got a great kit from KnivesShipFree. Sharpshooter made up some Fire Wallets from some EEP leather. The striker is heat treated so that it's properly hardened all the way through and it should last forever. Comes with flint and jute twine. Works great, carries great, and looks pretty sharp. I'll try to get up some pics.
 
I've got a kit like this in one of the hudson bay tobacco tins. It's got the magnifying lens set in the top of the tin as well.

I practice with it and I like to bring it along when I'm with non-outdoors people, I'll start the fire with the kit and they will all be amazed.

When I'm out on my own (or with people who wouldn't be amazed by the flint and steel) I usually just flic the bic or else use a firesteel. Usually I'm cold and want to warm up, or I'm hungry and want to eat so time is more important to me.

It's good to know how to do these sort of things, but when my butt is on the line you better bet my first try will be my bic lighter.
 
Got mine from L T at blind horse knives, my stiker is shaped like a dragon and works great ill have to post a pic when I get a chance
 
some pretty nice flint and steel shown here. rendezvous' in this area nearly always have guys who've made the steel and offer em up for sale. don't get me wrong, not saying the work is not worth the prices, but typically, in these parts anyways, the kits as shown go for the $12-20 range. handforged steel, nice selection of flint, char cloth, twine whatever, all in a nice tin box....usually the guy selling em is also the guy who made the steel tho not always of course. theres a surplus store here where you can sometimes get those tins(empty of course) for 95 cents each or a dozen for $10. they dont always have em but i picked some up recently to make kits for some pals for holiday gifts.
 
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