ferro rod

Hi All, I have an old Bark River which have been using for years, for everything from skinning to whittling. I love the shape of the blade, and prefer it out of all my edged tools. When i recived this from a friend, he advised that due to his grave-digger sized hands he had someone "extend" the...

Firesteel Modification

Hello everyone, I buy and use around twenty fire-steel blanks a month either through my courses or my knife sales, I used to buy from jx metals in china but the rods were so hard you just ended up with ridges all down the steel and had to throw them away, I now normally buy them from...

I got a new piece of kit a few days ago. It's called a nanoSTRIKER and it's made by a company called EXOTAC. It is a small, light-weight, self-contained fire starter. http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/SEUSSDB/EXOTAC/IMG_9831.jpg It's smaller than the ferro rods I'm used to but it is...