Who went out in the rain today?

[Hogan]

the feather stick is usually used as kindling rather than tinder, however if you make your curls thin enough and you manage to get the sparks from your firesteel into the base of the curls it will ignite but it takes practice

I'll give that a try as soon as the skin grows back on my knuckles after using firesteel too close to the stone fire base I had.

no need to polish them gleaming thats for militry parades only, use leather wax not polish

It is wax I am using. But being a determined so-and-so, I figured if spent enough time and elbow-grease, I could get a shine on them.

Your reply has saved me a lot of time and effort,
Many thanks