Lets see your Firesteels & Tinder kits! (lighting fires too!)

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Bushman5

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as the title sez, lets see you firesteels, tinder kits, cotton balls, and whatever else you use for getting sweet sweet fire going! post pics of lighting a fire too!

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Ooh, hopefully this thread is still around when I get back from camping this weekend. I just finished a sheath with a firesteel loop, and I'm going to put a spy capsule on the end of the firesteel as a handle and to store PJ cotton balls.

For now though here is how I rigged my leatherman wave sheath to carry a firesteel and fatwood.
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I also carry a blank firesteel with a hole drilled in it on my keys, with a nitro pill fob that has half a PJ cotton ball in it, and a hacksaw piece. The firesteel isn't in the picture because I didn't have it on my keys at the time.

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Bow and drill fire attempt.
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One day I'll be able to light a fire this way. One day.
 
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Ferro rod
The awesome Gossman striker
Hacksaw blade
Jute
Jumbo firestraw
Fatwood
Steelwool
Charcloth
All fits in the trusty Altiods tin
 
i have some 1/8th inch 01,i am gonna hafta get mah grinder on and try to come up with a lil striker kinda like that one by scott!! those are all cool kits guys!! -fed
 
This is my sparker

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And it's contained in this kit with fire straws, cotton pads and spare flints along with other survival items

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Doc
 
Heres a light from fatwood shavings, and my LMF steel. I primarily use this setup, but I carry a lighter and matches too. Along with some other tinders. I will snap a pic tommarow of my kit.

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Doc- I had the same idea with those things... Looks great. In a survival situation it would be fairly easy to get a fire lit with one of those things if your motor skills were suffering due to stress or exposure. Very cool!!
 
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Here is mine I am taking with me hiking out in W. Texas.

Scout Firesteel with a handle I threw on it, with a para lanyard and hawksaw. Also some Jute, Candle nub, char cloth on a bed of jute with some more char cloth underneath it. Next to it is a magnifying glass mainly for lookin at stuff, but useful in sunny weather non the less.
 
Is that what they're called? I found them hanging upside down on my fence. I'm gonna start a collection.
 
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Firestraws, fatwood, firesteel and striker. All in a little water proof Otter box.
 
I'll try to take some pics later, but I am kinda of digging the ferro rods with magnesium in them.
 
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