Well as some of you may have read, my steel that I asked Launditch1 to make for me arrived in the post today. I spent a couple of minutes tapping sparks from it (very ammusing I must say) and then decided I'd have a go at making fire with it.
Is it meant to be this simple? On my second strike of the flint I caught a spark in the char cloth and coaxed it up to a decent ember. I wrapped it in a tissue and blew it a couple of times and it was off.
This is the first time I've ever used a traditional steel. I really do have to wonder why people bother with these new "strike a light" type rods? I'd read that it was a lot harder to set an ember with a traditional steel but so far it's been easy. I did have ideal conditions for it but all the same I expected it to take much longer to work!
I'm going to use it to light the wood burner now!
Is it meant to be this simple? On my second strike of the flint I caught a spark in the char cloth and coaxed it up to a decent ember. I wrapped it in a tissue and blew it a couple of times and it was off.
This is the first time I've ever used a traditional steel. I really do have to wonder why people bother with these new "strike a light" type rods? I'd read that it was a lot harder to set an ember with a traditional steel but so far it's been easy. I did have ideal conditions for it but all the same I expected it to take much longer to work!
I'm going to use it to light the wood burner now!