Firesteel recommendations/make your own questions?

[jamesk]

I seem to have just missed a group buy at www.GoingGear.com who seem to be a popular choice amongst forum members. Unfortunately I can't justify paying $30 for postage on a couple of items costing about $8 or $10 in total.

Can anyone recommend some good firesteels available in this country which aren't prohibitively expensive, but do almost as good a job as the ones available from Going Gear?

I am new to this forum so may have missed some advice on this elsewhere but I did do a search

I am actually quite keen to attempt putting my own handle on a firesteel blank, but I have no idea how to go about this (having made the handle, do you glue it on?)! If anyone has any advice on this then that would be appreciated.

Thanks!

James

 

[kard133]

The Goinggear ones are mischmetal, and give big hot sparks and globs of metal, and I have found it difficult to control the direction they go in as it requires an effort to get them to spark. The ones I prefer are either the Woodlore ones, blanks at £7 or pre-handled at £10 with free shipping, or the Light My Fire ones. These are softer, give a good shower of sparks and are easy to control. Saying that, two of the Goinggear badger firesteels cost around $6 for shipping to the UK using the cheapest option on their shipping estimator, and I think there is a discount in the dealers section for the site of around 10%

 

[jamesk]

I couldn't get the shipping price so cheap! It gave me a minimum of $30. I'll try again!

Any other recommendations?

James

 

[Jinsin456]

I would definately recomend a light my fire one if you can get one, by far the best out of all I've tried and easy enough to control

 

[jamesk]

I appear to have got their shipping estimator working now. I'd still be interested to hear from anyone else on other recommendations, and would like to thank kard133 for the recommendation so far .

Thanks,

James

 

[jamesk]

I don't appear to be able to edit my post! Thanks Jinsin456 too!

 

[lab72]

Light my fire ones are spot on .