sparks with INFI???

Oh yeah it will, as long as there's a sharp corner on the back of the knife, or the edge.

Forget it; I misread your question...I though you were refering to a ferro rod. I don't know the answer to your question.
 
The combination of using flint as a striker is "iron" ... not steel .... the flint being used to generate the spark off the iron ... that is why or where you get the expression of "ferro rods" from the latin "ferro" for iron ... as these are created with enhanced iron properties to enable good spark creation.

So you would need to use Infi as the "striker" on the "iron" ... not on the flint or chert ... they are just alternative "strikers". But you can use Infi to generate sparks from a ferro rod or from an iron sparker as sold with "flint and iron" kits for bushcraft. You could also use Infi on Iron Pyrites ( the stone from which you get iron ore ).
 
Sure, put one next to a Strider and watch the sparks fly!

Or is that users? I forget...
 
A busse knife will make sparks with a fire steel.

I have done this with the choil on my BWM. It works like a charm.

EDIT: Woops. Also misread the thread. I thought you meant misch metal or ferro rod.
 
send me some flint & I will give it a try with Oinkaliber 2

when I chop cinder blocks I see sparks fly ?
 
I have some flint and steel, but no INFI. I've made sparks by striking the spines of my Cold Steel SRK and Becker BK2 on a piece of flint. Anyone who has done any INFI grinding could probably answer this question. If it sparks when ground, I imagine it will spark when struck on a piece of flint.
 
Haven't tried, but INFI is not a "stainless" steel. It is just very resistant to rust and staining, but it can rust or stain...if you try...and it will develop a patina fairly easily although it's just as easy to remove.

I know that this wasn't your question either, but I do recall seeing a vid of someone using a CGFBM edge against a magnesium block to spark a fire rather quickly.
 
1966c10 said:
Not saying you are wrong, I spent all of five minutes google'n this, but what I came up with is the opposite of what you are saying. I have always heard it as "flint and steel" and all the "bushcraft" flint strikers I see are made of high carbon steel, not pure iron. Tiny globs of burning Iron is supposedly what's igniting the tinder. But pure iron is too malleable to chip off so they use hardened steel.

That's where my question comes from... Even though sufficiently "hard", Is the INFI alloy too "tough" to throw sparks when struck with a hard rock such as flint, chert, quarts, etc.
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To answer your main question ... Infi will not throw sparks from being struck by flint or chert to enable you to start a fire ... having ground a lot of Infi on a belt sander you need the very coarse belts to throw sparks and even then there are not many ... especially compared to steels with higher carbon content such as that which you might find in old files ... Infi actually has a low carbon content for a tool steel ...

On the other points you mention as showing up from googling this issue ... the original "stone age" fire starters were flint or chert being used to strike iron pyrites ... that is what I meant by saying the combination was flint and iron (originally) and being in a "stone" format you can obtain sparks from iron pyrites in this respect as it is not maleable ... your point on pure pig iron being too maleable is right in terms of it not being hard enough to throw off sparks ... so on the "flint and steel" aspect you are correct in saying that old high carbon steels were used as "spark givers" and that they needed to be tempered to the right hardness ...

Modern steels with alloy compounds added to the high carbon make the "spark giving" harder to achieve ... essentially most knife steels fall into this category ... so using a flint on a knife of modern construction is unlikely to work ...
 
:D sparky :D


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Hey David, were you puting an americanized tanto tip on that? And is that a waki or AK? Looks like a Waki but kinda hard to tell from that end.
 
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