fire piston video

this is my fire piston ,thought it might be intresting to see one work ,if you never have seen one. the small black spot on my finger is my char cloth:haha:

He drawth fire from thy thin air, ye are not a witch by chance, are ye? :haha: (just joking)

Cool, I never seen one in action before, fire bows and flint & steel, but not a fire piston, until now...

Its tooo cool! gotta make one! found a link with insturctions, but...
with your experience, whats the best and/or easiest way and perfered materials to use?

way neat!

Brett

These do work.I bought one made of lexan( a clear plastic) so you can see the thing in action. It takes very little tinder, but sometimes more than one stroke to get it hot enough to combust. YOu still have to know how to take that ember and blow it into fire, and that seems to be a lost art, also. Most people don't know where to find dry tinder to start a fire, and are more likely to swallow a mouthful of smoke, or burn their eyebrows than to make fire trying.

There are ways of telling wether he is a witch... what are they tell us ..... what also floats in water. :rotf:

sir: with the name two-bellys i will most likley float like a sack of cork- as far as tinder i carry a small tin that has dryed cypress mulch in it there is a x cut in the front in this you place a small peice of char then spark the piston ,place the glowing ember into the x on the char with out the lid on and blow a fire will appear in about 30-45 second with practice even faster after you haveit stated ihave a candel cut into 1" peices i light one of these and replace the lid then use the candel to light my main fire the can may be fired about 20-30 times with out replaceing anytinder in it. i purchased mine off e-bay do a serch there type in fire piston it will take you to the listings look for e-b primitives i paid 24.00for mine and it came with the char and mulch to start 10,000fires also he provides the tin container for the mulch i really dont think you can make one that work as well as his for 24.00 mine will spark the char 100% of the time give him a look :winking:

i have been called many things sir, but the only call i listen for is dinner :rotf: however i do confess to being the 7th son of a 7th son :bull: check this this for pistons,[url] http://search.ebay.com/fire-piston_W0QQfromZR40[/url]

I'll second that about E-B on eBay. I bought a fire piston from him a couple of weeks ago, and Emil couldn't have been better to deal with. Answered questions right away and even sent more than I paid for. Good guy.

The piston works better than I expected. Coal every time, no cut fingers, generally pretty cool. Maybe not PC for most impressions, but a great little tool nonetheless.

So where's the link?????

http://search.ebay.com/fire-piston_W0QQfromZR40 :v

There is only one thing wrong with the fire piston. Although I am sure it may go back before the iron age, it is not correct for 18th, or even 19th century America. As well as they may work, as far as period correct, you might as well use a Bic. Like I do, when nobody is looking.

if we were all period correct ,everyone would either walk or ride a horse to there events :blah:
just kidding you are correct but only because there is no documentation to prove other wise,who knows what else was used that was never recorded. i am only speculating no offinse intended ,i have long been a fan of your knives, ever since the movie squanto- your work was outstanding ,and still is. :bow:

I just bought one on ebay; got it to work on the third try. This is just too cool! I recommend EBPrimitives, he did a nice job.

Owenbrau,

Is there an email addy or websight for them?

Thanks,
CS

http://search.ebay.com/fire-piston_W0QQfromZR40
try this. :thumbsup:

Owenbrau said:

I just bought one on ebay; got it to work on the third try. This is just too cool! I recommend EBPrimitives, he did a nice job.

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I purchased one also. Very well made. :thumbsup:

Thanks, but I was looking to bypass EBay. If they won't sell guns, I... Uh, sorry Claude. Won't happen again...

:grin:

CS

I have done some searching on fire pistons and plan on making one soon. I'm not sure what I'm going to make it out of yet, maybe an antler of some iron wood, but I think it will be a fun project.
What I plan on using for tinder is a fungus that can be found on live birch trees. It is found by a scare on the tree and is black in color. On the inside it is a yellow to tan color and is a very fine fiber. From what I understand if you slow dry this in a cloth sack in the shade it makes some of the best tinder you can find. (works well in making amber's from flint, stone, fire pistons and about any other way you would care to make a spark)
I'll try to jet it made soon and post any luck I have with what I use.
RJ

I have one of charcoal Dymondwood made by Jeff Wagner of[url] www.firepistons.com[/url]

He has some videos & histories there too.

Old Ironsights said:

I have one of charcoal Dymondwood made by Jeff Wagner of[url] www.firepistons.com[/url]

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His are very expensive, with the "The semi-finished model" going for $50.