You mean "fark," right?

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What if you had a badass small, hardened, edged scraper with a nice lanyard hole, tied to your steel?
Yeah, you'd have to rethink the classic firesteel loop, but if you have a pouch sheath or carry a tin of some kind it will drop right in. If you somehow manage to lose your striker and not your steel, then you can use the knife edge anyway. After all, it will be a TRUE emergency. For all other uses, like camping, practice, messing about, you just use the dedicated scraper and save wear and tear on your knife AND thumbs.

Fer instance, imagine this minus the secondary convex edge bevel, leaving about 0.025" of a squared 'edge' with two sharp angles:

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(well crud, you've talked me into giving up the goods)

-Daizee
 
Pretty sweet.

The best strikers I've found for firesteels are the the ones that come with the LMF firesteels. :D

My wife keeps her striker with her firesteel, on her knife sheath.

I just like having the knife and firesteel, not sure why, but I do.

I carry a SAK, which, has one of the neatest firesteel strikers ever, but using the spine of my knife, I don't know, feels more primitive, I guess.

Moose
 
Dang, Daizee, that's really nice! Is that titanium? I love stuff with coloring from the heat treatment or a hammon line.

The tin knife from KFU throws a nice spark, but like Moose said, the little striker on the LMF has still been one of the best. I hate carrying extra pieces to lose, though, so I tend to stick with a knife and firesteel. LMF leaves a little burr on the edge and I think that makes a huge difference.
 
mrn8 said:
Dang, Daizee, that's really nice! Is that titanium? I love stuff with coloring from the heat treatment or a hammon line.

The tin knife from KFU throws a nice spark, but like Moose said, the little striker on the LMF has still been one of the best. I hate carrying extra pieces to lose, though, so I tend to stick with a knife and firesteel. LMF leaves a little burr on the edge and I think that makes a huge difference.
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And there you have it. Trade brought to light, something I had never thought of, when squaring the spine, you get a good size burr, take a round shank screwdriver, and fold that burr down towards the edge. Talk about a dragon in your hand,

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Moose
 
Moosez45 said:
I just like having the knife and firesteel, not sure why, but I do.
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I understand the pleasure of this simplicity, really I do. But after a bunch of thought, I decided it was the wrong optimization for me for that function, and instead of grabbing the steel I should be grabbing the tiny toolset.

Oooh, I like that burr idea.

mrn8, that's fully heat-treated A2. It comes like that out of the heat-treat foil. Normally the pretty colors get polished away for a number of reasons, but on a 'dashi or a striker it can be left there.
 
New Snark thread needed.

Who's it gonna be?

Moose
 
oh please, this one didn't even make 999!
 
This thread is 11 short of 1000. I'm opening it back up until you fellows finish what you started.
 
FINISH HIM!

Thanks, B'dite. There be more....
 
DJG097 said:
Got that drivers sleep schedule? I hate going to sleep early in the day like that.
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Its the mail hauler sleep schedule, so, yeah pretty much. I drop of at the post office here a 5am and am done shortly after that. Then I sit around at home for a while befoe bedtime.
 
I woke up this morning to find bear poo in my driveway. Fun. Think I'm going to go put on my BK5.
 
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