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Post by Bushbum on Apr 2, 2014 1:57:45 GMT
I like trad flint and steel as a fire starting method, a good bit..I've had a number of fanciful kits over the years but have managed to scale it down to random bits of quartzite (which are everywhere here) and old .22 cal pellet tin for char cloth and my mora knife as a striker. char cloth and char nat tinders are easy enough to get goin..but what I;d really like to do is to be able to get some nice dry non charred natural material to catch..I was playing around today with non charred jute but no luck today...anyone else ever try or have success with this?
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Post by DOC-CANADA on Apr 7, 2014 5:36:55 GMT
I like trad flint and steel as a fire starting method, a good bit..I've had a number of fanciful kits over the years but have managed to scale it down to random bits of quartzite (which are everywhere here) and old .22 cal pellet tin for char cloth and my mora knife as a striker. char cloth and char nat tinders are easy enough to get goin..but what I;d really like to do is to be able to get some nice dry non charred natural material to catch..I was playing around today with non charred jute but no luck today...anyone else ever try or have success with this? Keep trying with punky wood. I had some once that would catch a spark from flint and steel.
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Post by tonym on Apr 8, 2014 14:55:06 GMT
I've gotten True Tinder Fungus to take. I had dried it out really good and roughed it up a bit. Not easy but I got it after awhile.
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Post by rollingsnare on Apr 29, 2014 15:05:51 GMT
I use polypore fungus, also called bracket fungus in place of char cloth. It is everywhere around here and in the winter it is dry enough to use right off the tree. The key is cutting away the context layer and only using the tube filled section underneath. I have tried punky wood but have never been successful with a spark off my mora. Cat tail fluff will light with a mora spark as well but I have never really liked it as a tinder because of how quickly it goes up.
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Post by Bushbum on Apr 30, 2014 2:30:17 GMT
Agreed on the cattail fluff it catches like a dream but burns up to quickly to really tansfer the flame to other material. Over the past few weeks, I've had some success with teased up cedar bark catching a spark..but again it won't hold it as of yet
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Post by DOC-CANADA on Apr 30, 2014 14:30:02 GMT
What helps Cattail fluff is to add in small, wispy pieces of Birch bark, assuming, of course, is that you have access to Birch.
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