what's in your hollow handle

u812 said:
I am working on a kit for mine.
I tried a search a while back but nothing popped up,must have been the server as I knew it had been talked about before.
I just ordered 20 boxes of strike anywhere matches,looking at fishing line and hook,small sharpening stick,small piece of magnesium.
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jeff, a small finger nail file works great and fits well, comes with two different grit sides:thumbup:

jules
 
Erispoe in your post you said it would be Very hard to light fire with a sparking tool. I have been using a sparking tool for years this is avery
simple tool to use and when used with cotton it lights every time rain or shine. Have you ever used one of these Flints to start a fire using real
cotton. I have demonstrated this to many people over the last twenty years or so and have always been able to start a fire with a spark from the
flint into cotton. If you strike a flint into a cottonball it will burn for around
30 seconds or so. If you add a dab of vaseline to the cotton ball and strick your flint into to it you can make a cotton ball burn up 4 to 6 minutes with a flame of 5 inches or so before it foes out. This is all that I use rain or shine
weather it has been raining or snowing. I carry cotton and vaseline mixed up in my Chris Reeves Hollow handle Knives with a flint bar in there also. If you take a even a wet stick and wrap a round the cotton ball on it then strike your flint you now have a match that will burn way longer then a regular matchstick. Try this out. You will see that it works just like that.
 
I have been trying some of this stuff,try cotton gauze and vaseline.
 
Well heres what I have so far,10 strike anywhere matches,vasoline soaked gauze stuffed into the hollow in the cap,1 bandaid.I will get some fishing line and hooks in the handle and a small peice of magnesium.I think that all I am going to fit in there so I will attach one of the flint sticks to the sheath.One thing that cam to me is that many items that do not hurt to get wet can be attached to the lanyard or sheath to save space in the handle.
One other thing I am thinking of is a way to get some bait for the hooks,winter is not the time to be digging worms or catching bugs.Need something that will be good for a long time,maybe catfish blood bait.A small amount in a very small tube should fit.
 
u812 try this take a regular o stick. The lenth does not matter or the thickness either. Set the stick down and strick or flint or light it with what ever you like. depending on how much cotton stuff you put on will determine how long the fire will last. then light a match and see how long it last coampered to the cotton match. also you now can have a longer match if you need to get your lit match deeper into your tinder and kindaling. this is
how i light pretty much all my fires. I do not carry matches any more because i can make my own and any lenth. also i really think putting at least a large i needle in there too. great for sewning and removing a splinter. also since you keep a cot/vas mix in your handle i would put in a flint bar instead of a peace of magneisum bar. even if it is a small diamiter flint rod you will get several thousand fires from it vs.10 matches. did you read about that fellow in colarado who was out for 8 or 9 days with a broken leg and what if he had been out there longer. a flint bar can also be used on other natural tinders .ie cattail down, thisle down, even on birch bark shreaded up and that is even after it has rained it still lights from a strike off a flint bar. that man was sking and fell a broke his leg. also matches tend to take up alot of space vs a flint bar that man said he ran out of some wood to burn. i am not sure sure how that happens in a forest but anyway just some thoughts to share with you. Take care,
Bry
 
I may do away with the matches depending on how well I can get a flame with the firesteel.I am still thinking magnesium for shavings for starting fires when the only tinder available is damp.
 
u812 the fire steels are pretty cool to use I just got some birch bark today on a walk I went on and will post some pics of the bark being lit be a firesteel the magnesium bars are nice to use if every thing is damp. Have you ever used birch bark to start a fire yet? It works really good even if it has been rainning. About 2 months ago my wife and I were walking in one of are local parks and it had been rainning for a couple days I stopped to get some bark and took out my firesteel I tore up the piece and struck the firesteel and fire.
I have one fire steel that I have started over 200 fires with it and it is still got more life in it.
Well take care,
Bryan
 
I'm new to this forum and after reading all that I CAN put into the handle I just bought a Shadow III. Serious impulse buy, but that knife looks like a real keeper - gotta have one. Great posts.
 
chimeragrande where did you get your shadow III from? I think you will find
it to be great edc ( every day carry). In another post I said that the shadow III I have found to be about the best fuzz sticks maker I have ever used. I will posting some pics on that too.
Take care,
Bryan
 
Heres a pic of mine so far.This is slightly harder than I thought it would be.Every time I find something I think of another way to do it and take it out.
The crock sticks are too small,I have some more on order.
Vasoline soaked cotton gauze is stuffed into the cap.
The small rolled up bag is fishing line,5 small hook and 5 small sinkers.
Also putting in a needle,the inner strands of the paracord make great thread.
I still would like to find a magnesium rod about 2 1/2 in long and 1/4 in around.
I am planning on attaching the firesteel to the sheath.
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sicily02

I ordered it off of www.knifecenter.com last night. It looks like a nice equation of pratcical, well built blade, plus the hollow handle AND nice looking sheath = a great knife. I have yet to receive it, but I am waiting. Should probably arrive late this week. Looking forward to pics of your kit.
 
u812 thanks for answering.

chimeragrande I have looked on the site before. You are going to love that knife. Here in southeast Nebraska the news has been telling over the tv that we are going to be possiblly getting 3 to 5 inchs of fresh snow if that is correct I plan to take some pics of firestarting with my firesteel and one of my CRKs as the snow is falling using just birch bark. As of now that is the plan we will see if we even get the snow. Have you ever used birch bark for any of your fire lighting? I use it every once in awhile mostly to show friends and family how it can be done.
Well take care,
Bryan
 
My wife and I live full time in are Jayco Designer 5th wheel and where we are now staying at we just step out are door and we have a fire pit that we are able to move around where we go. So hope fully the bon fire goes.
 
Here's my " Zombie Killin kit" note the Project 1, in a spec-ops sheath, I have since rapped the handle with 550 cord (new pic) . In the spec-ops, I carry a small swiss army tool, a magnesium fire starter, and a Highgear survival wistle, it has a compass, LED flashlight, magnifying glass, and mirror, and a digital thermomitor. (sorry about the spelling), I am going to add the cotton balls/ vasiline tonight, you can never have to many ways to start a fire. I actually needed to start a fire once (to survive) and was glad I never went anywhere without the tools. I was on a canoeing outing in the early spring, there was still snow on the ground in patches, but the river was going so well I had to go for it, my buddy and me had done this stretch about 5 times the year before, and thought we could be the first people to hit the river this year (about 10 years ago) . Anyways, a tree had fallen accross the river on a long narrow stretch, the water was fast and deep. The tree was almost completely under water, forming a dam accross the surface of the river. We didn't see it until it was to late, we said "go for it" hoping we would slide over, we didn't. The river swallowed the canoe, taking it to the bottum, it was foam filled, and as we tried to swim in the 36 degree water, the canoe shot out from the bottom and knocked my buddy out cold, as it struck him point first in the temple. He sank under the water and out of sight. I yelled his name and tried to muster some strength, I went under and tried to grab him. Just under me was a large branch, the current slid me along the branch, I rolled along it, beating the hell out of my ribs, and hit bottom, about 12' down. I thought I was a goner, I strugled against the branch, and thankfully the current and my scrared shitless strength combined, I popped out the other side of the branches and silt at the bottom, not long after I surfaced down stream, and maybe 200' down grabbed a hanging birch tree, after 2-3 minutes, I dragged myself up the 3' embankment. Yelling for my friend Matt the whole time, I really thought he was dead. I scrambled back up stream to the tree, (I was on the side of the river nearest the root system) and found Matt clinging to the roots in the water. I dragged him up, and we laughed our ass off. One scary moment, and then it got cold, it was 45 or so out, and we were about 7 miles to the nearest civlization. Soaked to the bone, we assessed our shit right there. Our canoe was stuck under a tree, in some really cold and deep water, and we were wet. I had a swiss army knife and a small schrade sheath knife, and Matt had a Bic Lighter. I had a zippo, but it was only good for skimming accross the water. We stripped down to our tighty whiteys, and started a fire, we had to dig around pretty good, everything was melting, and it was pretty wet. I found a dead birch tree, and peeled some dried bark, this usually lights like it has gas on it. It did. We stayed there for 3-4 hours drying off, and did OK. We had some rope on the canoe, you could just see one half of the canoe, anyways, we crawled down the roots, and got the rope, lashed it to the canoe. Threw it around the nearest Pine tree, and pulled. After some heeving, the canoe popped out and drifted down stream. As luck would finally go for us, it got snagged on our side of the river. We went on home, alot more catious of the river. I can't remember the maker of that canoe, it was my uncles, but it was one tough canoe! pics of my current rig in a minute, Gene;)



 
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