Flint and Steel for Beginners

How do you go about getting a sharp edge with the chunky piece of flint you're stuck in the woods with

Great info thanks for posting 👍

Great explanation, thanks

Great video, but I, personally, abhor the flint and steel fire making method! Where I am there aren't even rich sources of stone to begin with, let alone flint. The drill, and bow and drill methods are my go to methods for firemaking! It's so much easier than trying to knock a few sparks of a piece of steel and most likely breaking the sharp edge. With the drill, all you need is two piece of dry wood maybe some cordage to make it easier. I'm still interested in flint knapping though. That would prove way more useful. However, there are still things like bone, horn, and antler that are way more forgiving than flint. Even wood can be used to make a good fishing spear. So I might not even bother with flint at all.

Great video! Just getting into flint and steel, and I appreciate the video. Thank you!

Is it possible to fashion a steel out of some scrap tools, say a shovel, or similar?

Started playing D and D and had to figure out how to start a fire. Thank you! I will share it with the crew.

Thanks for the demo, I had a rudimentary understanding but would take a hundred strikes to luck into a usable spark. After watching your explanation I have a full on flame in under a minute.

Thank you very much Sir! I just got my Hudson bay steel, didn't know the proper strike technique. Know I got sparks.

Very helpful! ❤thank you for doing this!

This helped me understand why the angle of the frizzen is such in a flintlock gun, awesome.

Here I thought throughout all of my childhood that it's a drop of a black liquid and not a stone because of Minecraft

thx
edit: I opened a portal to hell in my backyard help

I tried this technique for fire lighting just last night with a friend just for fun, we wrapped some char cloth around the flint and like you said aimed for a sharp edge and the both of us were successful in producing flames within a minute and a half,, I expected it to be far more difficult

Thanks for the video. We got a flint and steel kit from a blacksmith and my 9 year old has been at it for about 10 minutes. He got some sparks but has no idea how he did it lol

Really good tutorial explaining the process. Thanks, I’ve struggled for a while. I also wasn’t aware quartz worked which is useful to know depending on your location. I’ve finally managed to light a fire with flint and char cloth thanks to this.

A hole punch is a great way to create an edge out of flint. Way easier than traditional knapping.

Thank you Dan, very well done 👍. Got it!

minecraft reference

I used to think flint & steel in Minecraft was a pirate hook. Sometimes I still think that.

I hit the rock onto the striker. It makes the sparks drop downward into my char cloth and birds nest; as opposed to flying up into the air.

Great video!

I bought one of these yesterday at Daniel Boones fort in Boonesborough Kentucky. That place was really cool to visit, and chat with the blacksmith that makes these things the old way.
Anyway thanks for this video! Helped me absolutely 👍🏻

Bravo ! I have 2 roman fire striker

Thank you! Clear directions. Plus, the explanation of why and how this works is super helpful. Many thanks!

just right click

Or make your own steel from an old file. On and don’t forget the char cloth. Great job as always!

Awesome

This is a certified Minecraft moment

got me a couple tiny sparks straight away with this technique! ❤

Newbie here. Good video. Very helpful.

could you pleace tell best substitutes for flint. Here where I live flint is not available naturally.

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If you get some obsidian you can make a nether portal!

Alright. Now just need to find obsidian

You can also knap the flint to have a razor edge.

That's fire 🔥🔥🔥 now light a nether portal

Awesome, thanks!

Such a simple to the point video.

Thanks 👍🏻

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What. Steel do you have

Question: Wouldn't the terms be reversed? The flint be the steel since it is the one actually creating the sparks and the rock is doing the shaving part of the production? Hmm

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Excellent presentation on the use of flint and steel.

thank you for the informative video!!! im going to research more :o

what alloy is the steel, just normal low carbon steel?

Incredible...now days with the ferro rods its easier but the older methods its really cool and interesting

Thank you!!!