Infi + flint?

[DocGP]

How well does infi spark with flint?

Was watching one of the pathfinder videos and it hit me that I had never tried to start a fire with infi and flint. I have with the fero rods and done fine, but how does it spark with flint?

Thanks
Doc

 

[David Brown]

good question, I have not used Flint, I have used and continue to use fero rods and they work great with INFI, SR101, Elmax, Stainless & Even Ti.
But never tried flint, where would one get flint ?

 

[Switchblade_renegade]

Emergency fire starters sometime have one side a flint and magnesium on the other. Try one of those

 

[leatherman]

good question, I have not used Flint, I have used and continue to use fero rods and they work great with INFI, SR101, Elmax, Stainless & Even Ti.
But never tried flint, where would one get flint ?

If I still lived in the Texas Panhandle its everywhere. Alabates flint quarry was an easy drive away. I'm testing out some rocks I have from that time, if I find out some is chert or flint I'll send some your way with those books and patches.

btw guys, busting flint and flint like rocks is nothing to play around with. Shards of it are like glass and will fly very hard and very fast. One in the eye and its a trip to the doctor best case, worst case is a razor sharp chunk of rock inside your eye.

 

[knifeguy101]

It works ok, doesnt really have enough carbon in it to throw the ammount of sparks something like O1 will throw. But it throws enough to ignite char cloth

To strike a ferro rod all you need is something sharp, even a piece of concrete will work.

The method the OP is describing is like using a flint and steel set. Where the spine of the knife replaces the steel, and the flint shaves off pieces of metal (INFI) that makes sparks. The higher the carbon content, the better the sparks will be.
Be sure the spine of the knife has a sharp, 90 degree angle for it to work too.

Note: Blades with the NM treatment wont work.

 

[Bullcarver]

Just an interesting related fact:

Tiny flakes of Obsidian set into scalpel handles are used for micro eye surgery because an obsidian flake edge is only one molecule wide. It is impossible to get that fine of an edge on Steel.

 

[Hindsight]

Just an interesting related fact:

Tiny flakes of Obsidian set into scalpel handles are used for micro eye surgery because an obsidian flake edge is only one molecule wide. It is impossible to get that fine of an edge on Steel.

Very cool piece of information.

 

[Garth Reckner]

Just an interesting related fact:

Tiny flakes of Obsidian set into scalpel handles are used for micro eye surgery because an obsidian flake edge is only one molecule wide. It is impossible to get that fine of an edge on Steel.

I never knew that. Guess you learn something new everyday.

Garth