New Firestarting Tinder Found!

JK Knives

JK Knives

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This morning while heat treating I accidently discovered a great tinder! I was tending the fire and a spark popped out onto a frayed spot on my jeans, and poof, instant fire. So remember, if you have a frayed pair of jeans on, you will always have tinder! As the Boss says, I`m always entertaining, you should have seen me dancing around beating on my leg. :o
 
Trying to think what music would be appropriate to watch this to...............
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I think I recall a buddy of mine taking old denim and baking it in an oven to a somewhat charred look. Then when you hit it with a spark it goes up pretty good, he put some in his firekit and it worked well when I saw it used
 
danc said:
Whatever the tune is, it HAS to have a banjo in it!
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danc, it ain't really music ifin' it don't have a banjer in it, is it? Ha! Ha! I do love my bluegrass music!

That must have been a site to see! John musta thought he was at the Pow-Wow! Ha! Ha! I can just picture it. Kind of sounds like me here a few years back. I had been rubbing something down with 0000 Steel Wool, and I had left a piece up on the workbench down in the basement. I guess it got a little too close to the electrical outlet or some got on whatever plug I was plugging in, and out jumped this big spark and right into that wad of steel wool. Well, I never seen anything go up in flame so fast in my life. I was having to do some laundry after that little snafu. I was getting it down through the basement to find something to smother that fire with, I'll tell you. LOL!

Isn't denim pretty much 100% cotton? That's why it goes up so fast. Guess I will have to get some old denim materials out and make char cloth out of it.

Later guys,

JK#36
 
Stomper said:
This morning while heat treating I accidently discovered a great tinder! I was tending the fire and a spark popped out onto a frayed spot on my jeans, and poof, instant fire. So remember, if you have a frayed pair of jeans on, you will always have tinder! As the Boss says, I`m always entertaining, you should have seen me dancing around beating on my leg. :o
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denim is made of cotton, so that would make sense...

trevytrev said:
I think I recall a buddy of mine taking old denim and baking it in an oven to a somewhat charred look. Then when you hit it with a spark it goes up pretty good, he put some in his firekit and it worked well when I saw it used
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char cloth...
 
Too funny, wonder what the neighbors thought? -- Honey come look at this! I didn't know John could dance like that.
 
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