Natural Flint!!!???

[Nic Ramirez]

I need flint. I can't remember if I already asked this but I need to secure some high quality flint. Not fero rods but natural flint.

The urgency comes because I just got an e-mail from a maker whose making me some awesome strikers to watch my mailbox.


flintflintflninnnt t.. t

next scheduled flurry of emotion approximately mail time tomorrow.

 

[Wotan]

You may use quartz instead of flint. It works very well.
I have also bought flint (chert) from the internet. Thomas Elpel, I believe, has flint for sale.

 

[Evolute]

I've heard that pyrite also works.

You should be able to find flint, chert, quartz, and pyrite anywhere where they sell semi-precious stones. Go to an education-oriented kid's toy store, or one of those "new age" shops at most major malls, or the gift shop at most national parks--or you could go out and try to find it.

--Mike

 

[Kid Couteau]

Hi

Dixie gun works sells real English flint
I got some there good stuff

Knifesmith