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After seeing and reading about charcloth I decided to give it a go!
The Making
I made a small fire, took some old dish wash towel and a something that looked like a thin can. After a few seconds there was a heavy smoke coming out of the small hole in the lit so I was doing ok. 2 minutes later there was was really think smoke coming out really fast so still ok. Then suddenly the smoke was gone. I thought the charcloth was finished, when I looked closer the lit popped of after deformation of the bottom part. The charcloth in making was on fire. Very quick I took the thin can out of the fire and putted out all of the fire. After this I had some really badly done parts, almost completely intact, but there were also very few pieces perfectly done.
When the fire became a little bit smaller I but the parts back in the tin can and tried it again. The reprocess was the same but after a few minutes there was fire coming out of the small hole in the lit! I took the can out of the fire and sealed of the hole, after opening most of the cloth was nicely charted. Mission success!
But the thin can still wasn't very successful so what kind of thin can do you guys use? How long does it takes you normally? And how big is your fire?
The Package
After getting the charcloth I had the problem for package.. This time I put it in the rest of the cloth I didn't use. But this is only a temporally package in my eyes. Because the chatcloth is so fragile you need to be careful with it! How do you package your charcloth?
The Lighting
I don't have a flint and steel so I used a firesteel to make the sparks on the charcloth. I put the ember in a bush of dead grass and, like Mr. R. Mears always does, started blowing and blowing, after I while I got some small flames but at the moment almost the entire bush of grass was one big ember and I almost burned my hands on them! How do you do this? This is more a question about firelighting in general than about charcloth but it fits the thread I think.
The Making
I made a small fire, took some old dish wash towel and a something that looked like a thin can. After a few seconds there was a heavy smoke coming out of the small hole in the lit so I was doing ok. 2 minutes later there was was really think smoke coming out really fast so still ok. Then suddenly the smoke was gone. I thought the charcloth was finished, when I looked closer the lit popped of after deformation of the bottom part. The charcloth in making was on fire. Very quick I took the thin can out of the fire and putted out all of the fire. After this I had some really badly done parts, almost completely intact, but there were also very few pieces perfectly done.
When the fire became a little bit smaller I but the parts back in the tin can and tried it again. The reprocess was the same but after a few minutes there was fire coming out of the small hole in the lit! I took the can out of the fire and sealed of the hole, after opening most of the cloth was nicely charted. Mission success!
But the thin can still wasn't very successful so what kind of thin can do you guys use? How long does it takes you normally? And how big is your fire?
The Package
After getting the charcloth I had the problem for package.. This time I put it in the rest of the cloth I didn't use. But this is only a temporally package in my eyes. Because the chatcloth is so fragile you need to be careful with it! How do you package your charcloth?
The Lighting
I don't have a flint and steel so I used a firesteel to make the sparks on the charcloth. I put the ember in a bush of dead grass and, like Mr. R. Mears always does, started blowing and blowing, after I while I got some small flames but at the moment almost the entire bush of grass was one big ember and I almost burned my hands on them! How do you do this? This is more a question about firelighting in general than about charcloth but it fits the thread I think.