Where to buy flint pieces for flint and steel?

[slowjunk]

Where is the best place to source pieces of flint sized right for using with flint and steel? I have searched the internet and can't find a retailer. I've looked for a bushcraft type supplier and I have looked at muzzleloading sites but I haven't found it yet. I know I should go look around the bottom of chalk cliffs, but there aren't whole lot of those in mainland Denmark where I live.

 

[munkiboi182]

just take a walk along the nearest beach at low tide. you should find plenty

 

[adestu]

i have a chalk quarry on my permmision.i'll send you some for the postage.

 

[slowjunk]

adestu- that is appreciated but I will be asking some friend in the UK to scrounge some flint up if they can. If that doesn't work out I will get back with you.

 

[Mad Mike]

Flint supplier & nice guy

http://www.will-lord.co.uk/will-lord-gunflints.html all things flint I imagine

Mike

 

[adestu]

no probs happy to help

 

[calgarychef]

Not every beach is loaded with flint like the beaches in the UK, You you'll walk a thousand miles of beach in North America and not find one piece. Other rocks produce a spark though, look for some quartz

 

[Thetillerman71]

I've plenty of both grey and black flint you could have, getting it to Denmark is the problem!

 

[slowjunk]

I was able to get a large chunk of flint added to an order from Shark Designs. Great piece of flint...

 

[abominable_scouse_monster]

Flint supplier & nice guy

http://www.will-lord.co.uk/will-lord-gunflints.html all things flint I imagine

Mike

You sir are a Gentleman, I have been looking for such a place.

 

[dump of the stig]

if its just a big lump of flint you want ill send you one for the postage,
I have an iron age hill fort just up the road from me, there are big pits of the stuff, and lots of it broken
so at some point it has been worked ie some iron age dude has had a go at making something with it!

 

[ADz-1983]

if its just a big lump of flint you want ill send you one for the postage,
I have an iron age hill fort just up the road from me, there are big pits of the stuff, and lots of it broken
so at some point it has been worked ie some iron age dude has had a go at making something with it!

Hi, I noticed your reply in the topic about Flint and was wondering if you would be kind enough to send me a piece of that flint aswell for postage cost?

I fancy trying to do some flint & steel firefighting so the flint would be much appreciated


Regards
Adam.

 

[dump of the stig]

yeah no problem, just any old lump of flint is it?