Light-my-Fire Army Model firesteel

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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
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for our Scoutingclub in a week (or two) I'll let you know how the scraper performs.

Cheers,

Bagheera
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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
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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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The army model looks interesting, and the price you quoted is a good one.

I didn't see ordering provisions on the webpage. Do they sell direct to consumers?
 
Howard,

Light-My-Fire sells only to shops and in large quantities as far as I know it.

The Military Model that I talked about can be obtained through me just drop me an email.
I was lucky to get a fair amount of these firesteels for several scouting clubs in and around our town.
I'm not a dealer just lucky that I could the firesteels for a very decent price for our scouts.
Because the US Dollar is getting stronger each day our Dutch scouting price converted to $ is getting very interesting for you.

Best regards,

Bagheera

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[This message has been edited by Bagheera (edited 05-13-2000).]
 
Those look pretty nice. Looking forward to mine. I like the Inox scissor tip too. Have to scrounge around and see what I can find. I've been partial to a bit of hacksaw blade 'cause they are so light.




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Hoodoo

The low, hoarse purr of the whirling stone—the light-press’d blade,
Diffusing, dropping, sideways-darting, in tiny showers of gold,
Sparkles from the wheel.

Walt Whitman
 
Hi Hoodoo,

I dropped you, a fellow biologist by the way, an email.

I like the sawblade striker also but just happened to stumble on the scissors blade.
Although it's a little bit thicker it is normally less wide and rustfree.

Cheers,

Bagheera

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Bagheera,

That beer you keep in you icebox must be pretty strong stuff. Check the email I sent you.
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Hoodoo, not Walt
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Hi Hoodoo,

Sorry for the mixup, I've been busy with a district competion weekend for our Scouts and it must have been lack of sleep or dehydration
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not strong beer as we don't drink that while the kids (scouts) are around.

Cheers,

Bagheera, who's bedding down at 19:00h to be fit for work tomorrow morning.

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Hi Bagheera,

I sent you an email I want two at least.
How about postage to the Netherlands must be cheaper ?
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The best,

Nimrod

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Bagheera,

They came in today. The firesteels work well.

The wife and kids are outfitted and sparking away. I used a woodburning tool to melt the kid's initials into the plastic top of their firesteels.

Thanks.


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mmmm.... burny things....


Thanks for the firesteels Bagheera! Now I just need to run across one the size of a beer key to stick on my key chain.


Stryver
 
Stryver,

Greg sells a nice small one that fits in the pouch of my billfold. I keep a piece of hacksaw in there for a striker. I'm sure you could adapt it to your keychain.

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Hoodoo

The low, hoarse purr of the whirling stone—the light-press’d blade,
Diffusing, dropping, sideways-darting, in tiny showers of gold,
Sparkles from the wheel.

Walt Whitman
 
Bagheera,

I just ordered 2 of your firesteels, check your e-mail. I have several other models, but its fun to try them all out.
 
Hi Bagheera,

send you an email, I like the original ones I got but if possible could you send me some of those NEW ones with the scraper plate attached, will save some SAK's knifeblades in the long run
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Keep safe,

H.
 
Hi everyone,

I'm counting the days as I only have 5 working days left and then after a year of hard work I'm finally starting my holiday.

Those who have showed their interest in the Large Military Firesteels our Scoutingclub will receive a batch somewhere this week and upon receiving them I will send out some firesteels to you distant pyromaniacs
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so you can test one of the best firesteels in the world, certainly when you count in the price (couldn't leave out that part as I'm Dutch
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I will miss you all for about 4 weeks but hopefully there are some "internet cafe's" in the USA so I can surf to this forum and alsoread my emails.

Cheers from Holland,

Bagheera

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