Flint & Steel Explained

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In this video you’ll learn exactly HOW to strike a flint & steel fire… plus learning exactly how it works. So you can troubleshoot and improvise on the spot.
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Flint & Steel Explained
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There's a lot of misconceptions with regards to flint and steel, versus a ferro rod. They are two very different things. This is flint and steel, or in my case, chert and steel. This is a ferro rod. Now, what's happening with the ferro rod is this. It has ferrous, which is iron, that you are scraping off by using one metal to scrape off another metal. That iron is hitting the oxygen in the air, and bursting into sparks, okay? That is a ferro rod, that is not flint and steel. There's no flint in this process. It's steel and steel.
Let's talk about actual flint and steel. Actual flint and steel is this. It is hardened iron. Iron with some sort of ferrous in it. I'm sorry, ferrous is iron. The reason why you have to have that, is because you have to have a metal that is combustible when it hits oxygen. If you don't that, it won't work. What's happening is this, it has to be hardened. If it's not hardened, it won't work.
This will hold an ember for you, if you throw a spark at it. I'll do another video that shows you just how to make char cloth, okay?
For now, I made in my little Tabasco Chocolate tin can, a bunch of char cloth. All right, there's all my little pile of char cloth. Now, there's two ways you can do this.
One of the best ways I think when people are starting, is to practice before you pull your char cloth out. What I'll have them do is I'll have them throw a spark, and keep throwing at it until, and change the angle until you get your spark. You're attempting, you're not getting anything, and you change the angle, and eventually you're going to get your spark.
The other thing to remember is, the hand is loose. You're kind of whipping this, you're not hitting it, you're not smacking it. You're glancing it off. If you glance it off, and I'm also not going straight at it. I'm hitting it at an angle. I'm trying to shave that outer edge off. When I start to shave that outer edge, you notice that's where my sparks are.
Let's say I wasn't getting sparks, I start changing my pitch, and eventually I start getting it, and I hold it there. This lets me know that if I want sparks from this tone, and this chunk of steel, I need to do it at that angle. Make sure you practice before you throw the char cloth on there.
There are two or three ways to do this as well. One of them is to hold the char cloth on the bottom, throw sparks, and hope that you get it on the bottom. Whenever I do that, my sparks go to the top. The other way is to hold it on the top, and whenever I do this the sparks go to the bottom. The way that I've found that works the best for me, is to hold it with thumb and forefinger in the middle like that, so that you can get a spark from whatever direction, and it will work wherever it goes. Let's get a spark real quick. Okay, there's my spark.
A little cheater technique is to throw a little extra char cloth down in your nesting material, so that it will hold once you get it there. 'Cause sometimes it can burn out really quick. One last technique that I'm going to give you, is if you're having a hard time with your cloth falling apart, just put one on the bottom, and one on the top, as if you had one big piece that's splitting.
A tip from a friend of mine... "Treat it like a baby squirrel. Tight enough that it's not going to get loose, loose enough that you're not going to suffocate it." I will tuck it around just a little bit, you can still see there's smoking coming from out of there. I'm not in a super big hurry.
Thanks for joining me. I hope you learned something and I will catch you next time.
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[@toddgibson9861]

great job...!!

[@PrepperAdvantage]

As a basic and essential skill, we like to be exceptionally thorough when it comes to fire making. -T-

[@TJackSurvival]

Thanks boss!

[@justinmckibben4534]

Nice video sir

[@PrepperAdvantage]

Why thank you! -T-

[@gregoris2474]

Why are you recording so far away from the camera?

[@DaleHok]

ditto

[@alfreds9215]

Good video Idea.. Setting and background are beautiful but: A lot of the content is completely lost. Highly Needed (1) Focus on your hands. The Camera Is Way Too Far . (2) Your conclusion "So I prefer the.... !". Explaining the loose wrist movement when striking the flint is priceless.

[@a.d_kingz1239]

Shut tye fuck up nigga