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We were talking about random outside the box type survival tools and thought we'd turn it into a game. What could you do with a... -credit card -discarded .22 casing -house key ...each seperately or together. HAVE FUN! Darrel

Like I said in Paleo, Great work to everyone who worked on this, especially BOD who is doing all the footwork in the jungle! This took a lot of research. Also like I said, you can see the modern bits of housewares in the background, it would not have been long before this knowledge would have...

Is anyone here familiar with the Greek Fire Method? I am wondering if anyone has tried this out. http://www.answers.com/topic/greek-fire

That sure looks like chaga. It looks like it is darkest in the center and gets lighter toward the outer cortex. Here it opposite and is most compressed at the deepest orange. The outer cortex looks a bit more like the outside of Cramp Ball Fungus while ours is really gritty and some can...

Shortening the explanation, I was saying that it can be difficult to sort out all the different theories as you must research each one. Its made more difficult because it is different languages. Trying to think outside the box by asking what may seem like off the wall questions has yielded...

Most traditional fire pistons in Europe were actually made from Brass while bone, antler, horn and wood were also used to a lesser degree. Wood was often used in SE Asia. The chamber and the piston do not need to be dry to work. The seals are very flexible. It is reported that the seals in...

This is far too funny to me. I actually have a family member who thinks that this is cultic. When I told them that there were people who did reenacting for a living and traveled around to different places each weekend to sell their wares, I was told that it sounded like a cult and I should be...

And the author of that book recalls seeing his first fire piston in 1747. As for fire pistons and magic….There are many today who think there are “secrets” in making a fire piston. I would not find it to be farfetched that some might believe that the fire piston was some sort of heresy 200...

I was at a Rendezvous here and met a man in passing who mentioned that someone he knew had told him that the fire piston traveled over to the Americas with the Pilgrims and that it was seen as witchcraft so it never took off like it did in Europe. Has anyone else heard this before? I have...

Out of curiosity I clicked on bert's here link and found pretty much everything I just listed. Sorry to be redundant.

Wow what an ordeal! This is Becky and I have can not log in as myself. While I figure that out, I'll borrow Darrel. Anyway, I have a whole list for you. Some of the information I will just copy from our site. I forget just how many there are...I hope if I forgot any, someone will remind...

A Finley as far as I know does not make the steels or fire pistons he sells, I make most of the steels on his site and a few of the pistons as well. Darrel

Just pm me if you need some help finding steels:) Darrel

Milkweed ovum’s will work very well. Just a piece of it held on your flint. Mullein will also work. Gently scrap the dry feathery bark off the outside., or the pith cut into paper thin strips vertically from the stock (not perpendicular to the stock). This will give you nice strips...