Flint and steel

How to Use Flint & Steel: Hi and welcome to another Instructable by me Capsos.I do hope you enjoy these and please make sure you check out my other Instructables on here, Also with that if you are into Bushcraft or would like to see a little more on what I teach then please …

by Todd Walker Forgive me for butchering the pronunciation of tonteldoos in my video below. No matter how it’s spoken in Afrikaans, this portable tinderbox just became my favorite fire-starter for …

Beginning even before the Iron Age to the invention of the sissy friction match, flint and steel is how fire was made. The Romans enjoyed evening gladiatorial battles to the angry light of bonfires spat forth by flint and steel. For a Viking nothing was more relaxing after a long day of pillaging than a drunken evening

Forged flint and steels by Buster Grubbs

It worked well yesterday, so let’s try it again. I returned to the shadow box (printer’s drawer) today with different subject. I really like how yesterday’s jaw harp in the shadow…

Quartz is everywhere here in Upstate SC, not so much flint and chert. That's alright because all 3 are of the same hardness... 7 on the Mohs Hardness Scale. ...

People often ask me abut fire steel shapes other than the shape that I usually make, so I got Northwood Iowa Dave Hartwig's permission to show a number of different strike-a-light shapes that he has researched.

This was created by Steer Creek Trading Post. A nice belt pouch for your flint and steel. Mountain man or modern man, its up to you.

Belt pouch, fire-bag, tinderbox, fire steel, sundial compass, & fishing tackle tin.

Some people collect stamps or coins. Others can’t pass up old books or records. I can’t walk past steel strikers without buying new and unusual ones. At a recent muzzleloader event, I picked up a new steel striker for traditional flint and steel fire starting. It’s a pretty little job with a heart motif in the handle. It was fairly expensive, but also American made, so I didn’t mind. And it sparks like a muffler dragging down the highway, too. None of the old timers in the sutler’s tent…