Am wanting to buy some flint that will work on steel to start a fire, I have bought some over the internet but it would not work, any body got some real flint for sale?
PS I don't have very good luck with this forum on communication so maybe you could e-mail me cooper@eoni.com
I think most of not every state has some. Am I wrong?
Any how , I heard Lewis and Clark took flint along the way as opposed to percussian , which was available to them because they could find some along the way.
best wishes
You can test your steels on a grinder and compare it to other steels to see how many sparks it throws.
Old files and quartzite will work, just not as well as real flint with a sharp edge.
If you haven't tried already, char cloth really works to hold the sparks.
Are you sure the problem is with the flint and not the steel??? I don't have any problem throwing good sparks with most any piece of flint, the problem is getting a good piece of steel...Try Track of the Wolf, they have flint and steel sets...
As far as Lewis & Clark, they had flintlocks because percussions weren't available yet...
Its the steel that sparks, a frizen on a flintlock is what sparks. Frizzens ware out and should be replaced periodically. A firestarter stick is not flint, its a manufactured compound.
A lot of things will throw sparks, ferrocerium (lighter flints), chert, zirconium. Where I live every time I try to dig a hole with my tractor augur I am greeted with both the sparks and smell of natural sparking.
Quartz works if you don't have any flint. I believe you can use slate or granite as well although I've never tried it.
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