The new KSF Firewallet. This thing rocks!

Stylewise I prefer classic styled flint & steel kits. Thousand year old firemaking technology in thousand year old design works better for me. But thats not bad at all.
 
Everyone should know how to light a fire with flint and steel. Its really not hard, and just damn neato!
 
Fiddleback said:
Everyone should know how to light a fire with flint and steel. Its really not hard, and just damn neato!
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I agree, it has a great 'cool' factor to it.

Using char cloth is also a good way to practice making natural tinder bundles and blowing them to flame. So much attention is giving to the ignition method of fire, the fuel part is neglected. Most, including me, need to work on making natural tinder bundles, that is where char cloth has a greater value IMHO.
 
CSG said:
Or you could carry a Bic...
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I don't mean to rain on your parade but I would never trust my firestarting to just carrying a bic lighter. It's alright to carry one with something else but to only carry a bic lighter is putting all your eggs in a pretty fragile basket IMHO.

Flint and steel has stood the test of time and there's a reason why people still use it. It's pretty foolproof. And it works even if wet, below zero, and above 6,000 or 7,000 feet. If you want to trust your bic to work in any two, let alone all three of those conditions then good luck.:thumbup:

Great video Jeff! Thanks for posting that.
 
That is pretty neat. Looking forward to seeing it used in person sometime.. Looks easy enough, but looks can be deceiving .. sometimes.
 
TwinBlade,

Thanks!

As far as the continuing Bic lighter controversy, I will never understand people in this game. While I don't necessarily think that fire bows and drills and flint and steel are "the way to go" for primary sources of lifesaving fire, I do think that carrying proper tinder and using ferrocerium rods and really hot matches like REI matches are. For years I have read online about how people don't trust folders because they can break when you need them most and of those that do carry folders, volumes have been written criticizing liner locks, how they are weak, etc. Some people would trust their life to a Bic lighter. :) To each his own! "Well, I will carry two or three of them and I will put them in ziplok bags!"

By the time you get around to carrying all of that shit, you could carry tinder and ferrocerium rods and strikers and this, that and the other.

They have their place in a kit. What is incredibly crazy is the volumes of nonsense that has been written talking about things weighing too much or taking up too much space...yet some choose the Bic as a primary source of fire.
 
Nice, seems a little bulky to me. I'd rather have a ferro rod and some pj cotton balls myself. How well does char cloth and jute twine do when wet?
 
Derrick, being the awesome person he is, sent me a wallet with my RC-5!!!!

What a great piece of kit!!
 
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