Starting a Fire with Flint and Steel

Classic Townsends.

Minecraft flint and steel in real life!

Jas - could you also do a piece about other common firemaking methods at the time - especially with your american frontier series of spots, it bears mentioning that many american frontiersmen learned native fire starting techniques as well, and it might help someone out. Love your channel, and watch often (especially when my hands start itching to so some of the crafts and skills)

Just got my flint and steel in the mail I ordered from the website. Not using anything except what I can find in the woods though. Caveman time

My husband & children would never eat because I would never be able to start the fire--& we would freeze to death...

In Florida you can simply look for a pine tree root that is still burning from the last forest fire.

Good sharp pieces of quartz work well for the sparks too

i love the tobacco box, i own 2 of them one for actual tobacco for my pipe, and the other for my flint and steel. another thing i carry is a wax jute candle i use for lighting candles and pipe while in camp, your series are part of the reason why i started investing in to these products and still use some baking techniques you teach in your vids while in the wilds on vacations, keep up the good work and stay safe in the trouble times

Thank you for everything you do to keep history alive. I greatly appreciate your videos and your obvious passion for historical education. Keep up the good work!

you can burn item but can’t freaking smelt iron with furnace in minecraft

Fantastic to see such a critical skill broken down so clearly, and with simple and effective tools. Your videos are excellent for sparking excitement about history.

Who the hell buys Kindling.

Who watching this in 2020

Thank you so much

Can you please sell tinder fungus in your store?

Loved that outro music. "Over the Hills and Far Away" from the Sharpe's Rifles TV series?

Did I just stumble upon a gem of an ancient video on Townsend's channel????

I bought the flint and steel fire starting kit from the Townsend website. It arrived really fast and was a good value. but I somehow managed to cut my finger open the first time I struck the flint and steel together. Flint is very sharp.

So glad you don't do the "staring off into space" side angle camera shots anymore. Now if only the rest of the Internet would stop too!

Sir, you are a hero of mine. The past should be learned from and never forgotten. You never know when things will be reduced back to that again. I truly appreciate you

It came in the mail whilst I was at work.
I have made fire!

And this is also how the knuckle duster was invented too

Awesome video very helpful 👍

That brazier must pre-date the firebox by centuries, it's the old saying there's nothing new under the sun ☀️.

Isn't that Chert?

Amazing⭐
Great video 👍💛

Would you please show a side view and the correct angle of the flint against the steel?

HELLO from 2022

Makes it look easy

If I sent you a flint knife (rock self collected from a creek) would you use it on your channel?

I think you would put it to good test on some kind of game

I hear dryer lint works well too, like in the “birds nest” stage

Hee Hee....... Minecraft :)

I may pick one of these up so that I don't have to keep borrowing my grandfather's old handmade flint and firesteel kit that my father has now. I'm an Assistant Scoutmaster for my old Boy Scout Troop here in my hometown. The only "flint and steel" most Scouts ever get to see or use is the modern "el-cheapo" ferro-rod glued into a block of magnesium metal. Sure, they work better for lighting fires but there's nowhere near as much care, skill, and preparation involved. Let alone as much "cool factor".

Is that really how they dressed ?
Just make a instructional video ( which you did very well)
But save your money on costumes!

What’s the fungus called then we can look it up and get some for ourselves ?

So is it the metal thing he is holding that makes the spark up against a ruff surface of a stone still trying to work it out 😂

Dope, I can use some of these. "Winter is coming"

My favorite way of making fire, it's a satisfying feeling making a fire without a lighter. Friction fire is on my to learn list. Love the channel thank you for the videos

So thats how it works n minecrafy

Yep

Jon, Thanks For the Fire Starting Lesson! Keep Up the Great Work.

Flint fire sparks
Shiny😮

2024

Good material. I will try your technique. I’ve taught my sons to build campfires using ‘squaw wood’, this low-hanging dead branches on trees. But we’ve always used matches because we’re not skilled enough using steel…yet.

Recently I’ve been using waxed sawdust pellets within my small kindling, but I don’t want to become too dependent on that.

thanks for prepping us for an isekai immigration (jokes aside, history major here❤)

Wow this video was 15 yrs ago and i just found your channel now at the very end of 2024 December

Now light a nether portal

Using charred clith is not aurhonic notvis jute cord. Tender fungus hascto be prepared.

What a cool channel ... I just discovered this 13 year old video. I'll be watching more! 😊