Evening All,
Today's diy project has been a basic flint and steel kit made from a couple of old English files. I snapped a couple of bits of them, then ground one edge flat for the striking surface they are pretty rough but I will tidy then up if/when I master them.
I made the smaller one first but I wasn't happy with the amount of sparks it made so did the larger one this evening which seems better, I'm not sure if this is due to it being better steel for the job or just because it's slightly bigger/heavier.
I have tried to get some cotton wool to take a spark but have failed although it came close a few times, I'm not sure if this is due to bad technique or the steel not giving enough sparks, it seems that most people use charcloth with them but I don't have anyway/where to make any at the moment.
On the plus side I have filled one of the leather pouches I made.
Thanks
Jon
Today's diy project has been a basic flint and steel kit made from a couple of old English files. I snapped a couple of bits of them, then ground one edge flat for the striking surface they are pretty rough but I will tidy then up if/when I master them.
I made the smaller one first but I wasn't happy with the amount of sparks it made so did the larger one this evening which seems better, I'm not sure if this is due to it being better steel for the job or just because it's slightly bigger/heavier.
I have tried to get some cotton wool to take a spark but have failed although it came close a few times, I'm not sure if this is due to bad technique or the steel not giving enough sparks, it seems that most people use charcloth with them but I don't have anyway/where to make any at the moment.
On the plus side I have filled one of the leather pouches I made.
Thanks
Jon