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Chinkapin, It´s not amadou he is using, it´s chaga, Inonotus obliquus, this only grows on birch trees, looks like a blackish burnt piece of wood and is an excellent tinder working without any treatment (except for drying) with traditional flint and steel and fire pistons. Real ´Amadou´ is...

I have never made a totally wooden piston myself but I know that the pine, oak and beech rods I have used for the piston are too porous and must be treated with superglue or similar to make them work. So what can you use? Lignum vitae works for sure (I have got one made of this wood)...

Lovely pictures Ed, thank´s. I´d love to see the fire pistons you encountered in the museum as well. Do you happen to know why the culm´s of ´fire bamboo´ are accompanied by TWO containers rather than one? I´d say for the tinder and stone only one would suffice? Cheers, Tom

I can't see the pic's here at work Ed so I will take a look at them when I'm at home. Are all the bamboo strike a-lights you encountered in the museum from Palawan island & Balabac Island in the Phillippines? Cheers, Tom

He´s a member here as well Cheers, Tom

Goedenavond Gierzwaluw and have fun here Cheers and greetings from Zaandam, Tom AKA Galemys

eh nope...there were at least 40 five minute episodes made of wild/country track´s. I videotaped 26 of them years ago and only 10 or so of them are on youtube as far as I know. Cheers, Tom

Hello from Zaandam, have fun here Cheers, Tom

Wow that´s a disturbing picture! I´m guessing it´s an alien lifeform originating from the `buffalo´constellation... Cheers, Tom

Here's another natural tinder that works in a fire piston, fluff from the seed "balls" of Platanus, the London plain tree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanus The seedballs consists of a round core, surrounded by the seeds with some hairy stuff attached...

It looks great! Cheers, Tom

Here´s a link to a short program filmed by the Flevoland tv-station this weekend at he basiclife bushcraftweekend: http://www.omroepflevoland.nl/televisie/uitzending-gemist?progId=Binnen%20de%20Dijken It´s the 16 november episode, enjoy Cheers, Tom

Simon & Heleen, a big thank you for a great weekend! Cheers, Tom

That's very sad news indeed. I only knew Mike from this forum and some PM's but I will miss his input, in some people grumpiness is a virtue :) I'm glad there's a legacy of his posts on different subjects still to find here Mike, I hope your enjoying a drink with Hephaistos and the like...

Hi Rich & others, A former member here, the late and very inspiring Storm has posted about using Artist's conk for hearths: http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7398 Also on other non-wood materials as a hearthboard: http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8105...

This was posted over at paleoplanet by "Mooncat": "You need some superglue (Cyanoacrylate), A large cotton ball and a tinder bundle ready. Normally, I would probably use a chunk of bark or wood as a base for this just to start. Take the cotton ball and get it completely soaked in that...

I have sent you a private message Mfdfyrecaptain, hope you are able to read it Cheers, Tom

That just made my day :D You told me Jamri was good but it´s just amazing to see him at work Cheers, Tom

Wow, I wish all the threads were like this! This is exactly why I visit this forum, a brilliant tutorial. Thank's very much Cheers, Tom

Marvelous! Very odd and interesting creatures, I believe the early naturalists had problems assigning them to their place in the tree of life, partly because of their strange dental formula. I wondered if you had encountered them in Malaysia and here you are with fantastic pictures of the...