Using PSKOOK Flint and Steel

Tips:

This Kit does not contain charcloth due to the safety of transposition. A pure cotton cloth is included to help you make one.

We have a video toturial online [ youtube channel: PSKOOK go]about how to make char cloth.

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Place a small piece of char cloth on the top of the flint as shown. The goal is to shave off a very small strip of metal that will burn and land on the char cloth. Striking down at about a 30-degree angle should create a spark or two, which will cause the cloth to glow red where they land. This often happens on the edge of the cloth and is hard to see in bright sunlight. If a spark lands on the char cloth, wait and blow gently on it until you see either a glowing crescent or nothing. If nothing, go back to striking.

Tips:

Gather firewood, kindling, and tinder. Char cloth won't burn hot enough to light a log all by itself. Just like any fire, you'll need tinder (dry grass, bark shavings, newspaper), kindling (twigs and small branches), and of course the logs themselves. Char cloth makes it easy to start this chain and light the tinder.

Char cloth is most useful during damp weather, when tinder is more difficult to light.

Spread the flame. Blow on the glowing char cloth to get the heat to spread across it. Pick up the tinder bundle and gently push the sides up and over the cloth, until they start burning.

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How to Make Char Cloth

Step 1: Make the Char Tin

Punch a hole in the lid. Stab a hole in the top with an awl or a nail and hammer. It should be about large enough to stick the tip of a pen through, but not the whole pen. Gases and hot air will escape through this hole, preventing the tin from exploding.

after that you are ready to char some cloth. For a can without a lid, wrap the top tightly with aluminum foil.

Step 2: Choose natural fabric.

An old, clean 100 percent cotton T-shirt or pair of denim blue jeans are good options. White cloth is best, since it's easy to tell when it's charred and there's no risk that dye will interfere. Most dyed cloth will work fine, but never use cloth that contains synthetic material. Also with no plastic or rubber parts

Cut the fabric into pieces. The fabric will shrink during charring, so 2 inch (5 cm) squares of fabric will leave you with a small but manageable piece of char cloth.[4] There's no need to measure exactly or get even edges. Just eyeball the size and cut up the fabric with a pair of scissors.

Drop the fabric squares into the container, keeping them mostly flat. You can leave space in the tin or nearly fill it, as long as you don't tamp down the fabric.

Step 3: Put It on the Fire

Now just start a fire not a blazing inferno just a calm fire or you can use the embers (lots of embers, this usually works much better) set it somewhere in the fire where it will not fall over and watch it you will eventually see smoke billowing out or it might start on fire. Don’t freak out just let it burn itself out and when there is no more smoke coming out take it out. What ever you do DONT! Take the lid off right away just wait a little while for two reasons. one it is probably really hot! and two if you open it before it cools, the oxygen will rush in and might start the whole thing on fire.

Step 4. Remove the lid and Inspect the cloth

if is kinda soft completely black and is not very fragile then it is perfect. then you should take it out of the can and separate each piece gently.

If the cloth isn't fully black, return it to the tin and heat again. Make sure there is no smoke leaving the tin before you take it off.

If the cloth crumbles to dust when touched, then you left it on the fire too long. Try again with new fabric.

Step 5: Light It Up

now all you have to do is let any kind of spark fall on it and it will glow red with a hot ember but no flame or for all those tech freaks you can just use a lighter but it burns it up fast. for all you primitive and medieval people like me this is the exact way the people back then made char cloth