OK - lets get Bushcraft recognised as a Religion - religious obrervance is one accepted reason for carrying an edged tool!
Sorted!
Hehehe - absolutely
OK - lets get Bushcraft recognised as a Religion - religious obrervance is one accepted reason for carrying an edged tool!
Sorted!
OK - lets get Bushcraft recognised as a Religion - religious obrervance is one accepted reason for carrying an edged tool!
Sorted!
With some others, I have been searching for societies that still use and make the fire piston. Our researches show the earliest written record of the fire compression effect to be in De Litteria Expeditione per Pontificam Ditionem published in Rome 1755.
It'll end in tears, the first schism, the church or Ray vs the church of Bear with the agnostics caught in the middle....
The older faith, the church of Mors will weather the storm...
..This is Western Europe, it's damp, and until the advent of central heating keeping wood dry was a pita, doors and drawers stick, they swell and warp, so would the piston.
It just wouldn't have been as reliably effective as flint and steel or the lucifers that replaced them...
If they were indeed around in Europe in 1745, why did it take until at least 1802 to get a patent on one? What held it back?
But if they weren’t found in SE Asia until 1850, then it would make more sense that we introduced these tools to them. If indeed they were available in 1745, then they could have been around in Europe much earlier giving time for them to travel throughout the more primitive regions.
Toddy, There is superb tinder readily avaibale in Asia. In Borneo it is the Apiang palm and in mainland Asia the Caryota mitis (the Burmese Fish tail palm)