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LATEST INFO (June 15) for ALL spark lovers: Light My Fire has "improved" upon their Large Military Firesteel they added a spark scraper to the lanyard.
I will have 100 of these Sparkling babies
for our Scoutingclub in a week (or two) I'll let you know how the scraper performs.
Cheers,
Bagheera
Also see my post on the exchange forum: http://www.bladeforums.com/ubb/Forum13/HTML/000882.html
Hi everyone,
There has been frequent posts concerning the making of fire using ferrocium flints in al kind of forms.
I'm personally hooked on the Four Seasons Survival Spark-Lite because it's a one handed tiny effective firestarter.
But I also tested larger ferrocium flints and you can view some action shots of me starting a fire with the Scout Model stick from the Swedisch company Light-My-Fire and setting fire to some high resin content (80%) Mayawood, on my photopoint site:
<a href="http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=130364&a=6215521">
See my photos of Firestarters at PhotoPoint</a>
I also have tested their professional model called the Army Model consisting of an almost 3" stick that is 3/8" thick, in my opinion it will start fire's for you the next decade or so. It produces a large amount of sparks by just slowly scraping down on it. The Maya Wood slivers that I use almost always light on the first strike
.
I found a handy striker for my firesteels it is a piece of a blade from a pair of scissors.
My wife always buys those cheap Taiwan stamped metal (Inox) scissors with the molded plastic handles and those plastic handles crack/break every once in a while.
I use the sharpened blade of such a broken scissor and dril out the pivot pin and cut of the scissors tip so that i have about 3" of metal with a hole. These produce showers of sparks if you scrape the firesteel with it. Nice thing is that I recycle something and that the striker doesn't rust.
You can take a look at it at the Swedisch site it's the one on the left:
http://www.light-my-fire.se/index2.htm
If anyone would likes those Army Model firesteels; for $15 you get 2 and that includes priority airmail to the USA.
Interested or need more ? drop me an email.
Cheers from Holland,
Bagheera
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I will have 100 of these Sparkling babies

Cheers,
Bagheera

Also see my post on the exchange forum: http://www.bladeforums.com/ubb/Forum13/HTML/000882.html
Hi everyone,
There has been frequent posts concerning the making of fire using ferrocium flints in al kind of forms.
I'm personally hooked on the Four Seasons Survival Spark-Lite because it's a one handed tiny effective firestarter.
But I also tested larger ferrocium flints and you can view some action shots of me starting a fire with the Scout Model stick from the Swedisch company Light-My-Fire and setting fire to some high resin content (80%) Mayawood, on my photopoint site:
<a href="http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=130364&a=6215521">
See my photos of Firestarters at PhotoPoint</a>
I also have tested their professional model called the Army Model consisting of an almost 3" stick that is 3/8" thick, in my opinion it will start fire's for you the next decade or so. It produces a large amount of sparks by just slowly scraping down on it. The Maya Wood slivers that I use almost always light on the first strike

I found a handy striker for my firesteels it is a piece of a blade from a pair of scissors.
My wife always buys those cheap Taiwan stamped metal (Inox) scissors with the molded plastic handles and those plastic handles crack/break every once in a while.
I use the sharpened blade of such a broken scissor and dril out the pivot pin and cut of the scissors tip so that i have about 3" of metal with a hole. These produce showers of sparks if you scrape the firesteel with it. Nice thing is that I recycle something and that the striker doesn't rust.
You can take a look at it at the Swedisch site it's the one on the left:
http://www.light-my-fire.se/index2.htm
If anyone would likes those Army Model firesteels; for $15 you get 2 and that includes priority airmail to the USA.
Interested or need more ? drop me an email.
Cheers from Holland,
Bagheera

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