firesteel tips needed

[Jeff Wagner]

Well....you can have the horn piston in the gallery (resting on the the knife) for a good trade.

 

[gregorach]

Nothing to trade, unless you're interested in stacks of malfunctioning, obsolete PC parts...

 

[Topcat02]

Hurray,

It's not just me with a shed full of old graphics cards, dlt tape drives, hard disks, and motherboards.

I cant quite face chucking them away, just in case.

TC

 

[gregorach]

Well, a bushcrafter never wastes a resource. I'll think of something to do with 'em sooner or later...

 

[twelveboar]

Has anyone tried to see if they'll catch a spark?

 

[Goose]

Whats silicon like as a hearth board?

 

[twelveboar]

How about a pcb handled bushcrafting knife?

 

[Jeff Wagner]

I have found that non-functioning PC's make very satisfying shotgun targets. Their remains are useful for intimidating the replacement.

 

[gregorach]

Jeff, that's definitely the best suggestion so far!

 

[twelveboar]

I have found that non-functioning PC's make very satisfying shotgun targets. Their remains are useful for intimidating the replacement.

First class idea, are they in season at the mo? What loads are recommended, I,m guessing no.4 shot out to about twenty yards, but wouldn't mind trying brenica slug at about fifty.

 

[Jeff Wagner]

I am breaking in a 20 ga. flintlock English fowler at the moment. A handful of #4 buckshot ( .25 caliber ) is quite destructive. It also fires .595 caliber patched round balls very well. Either of these loads will do the job nicely.

 

[twelveboar]

Sounds like a very nice gun Jeff, I love to see old guns being used for the job they were designed to do..... er like shooting computers up!

 

[Goose]

How about a pcb handled bushcrafting knife?

Cut into discs like a leather handle?
hhmmmm..... :thinkerg:
That is recycling at its best!
And it doesn't stop you from blasting them with a shotgun first!

 

[Rhianwen]

now all I need is to convince the Boss I NEED a firesteel

Ok, Boss has seen, boss is convinced, but boss still says on yer bike

Isn't this Bushcraft lark supposed to be about surviving on what little you can? Keep up buying gadgets for it and we'll bloomin well have to

Rhi x

 

[Greywolf]

Keep up buying gadgets for it and we'll bloomin well have to

*Psssst* I think you've just killed the thread with your joke

I don't think everyone has realised you aren't serious


Greywolf

 

[Goose]

*Psssst* I think you've just killed the thread with your joke

I don't think everyone has realised you aren't serious


Greywolf

Anything like my wife, she probably is!

 

[Rhianwen]

*Psssst* I think you've just killed the thread with your joke

oops. Naw, I'm not THAT much of a dragon......I do give him pocket money

Rhi x

 

[benmatthews90]

keep practicing with the steel an within a week it will become 2nd nature
my steel iis the fiirst tool i reach for when i am lighting a fire but in emercencies i have a blowtorch lighter as back up
you do need good tinder for a steel but ii find the first 6 inches of a pine trees branch is packed with oil so it very good and i have lit fires in the rain (light rain not a downpour)
good luck have fun