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  1. Tom A Hawk

    SOLD Flint and Steel Kit - Tinder Box Size 2 Finger Striker

    This set includes a flake of sharp English flint, a roll of charcloth, no char required wood punk, small sample of no char required tinder fungus, jute nesting fiber, a high carbon, forged two finger striker and instructions. $20 by money order. Free shipping.
  2. Le Loup

    Making 18th Century Sulfur Matches or Spunks.

    Spunks were used in 18th century households for transferring fire to the fireplace or to light a candle from a tinderbox or tinderlighter. Sparks were struck directly onto the tinder in the tinderbox & the sulfur match would be touched to the smouldering tinder to create a flame. Be careful when...
    • Le Loup
    • Thread
    • 18th century fire lighting lighting candles living history period living skills spunks sulfur matches tinderbox tinderlighter
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Australia / New Zealand
  3. Le Loup

    Charring Plant & Fungus Tinders without using a "char tin"!!!

    In the 18th & 19th centuries people did not use a tin or any container to char tinder for flint & steel fire lighting. They simply charred the tinder material, be it tow rag (cloth), plant or fungus material, directly in the flames of the fire. Then they extinguished the smouldering...
    • Le Loup
    • Thread
    • 18th century 19th century fire lighting fungus making fire plants tinder tinderbox tow rag
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Australia / New Zealand
  4. Le Loup

    Recognising & Identifying Punkwood.

    • Le Loup
    • Thread
    • 18th century fire lighting flint & steel foxfire living history plant tinders punk wood punkwood survival tinder
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Australia / New Zealand
  5. Le Loup

    The Gunpowder Bag or Wallet.

    One of the author's five leather gunpowder bags. “…fungus that grows on the outside of the birch-tree…used by all the Indians in those parts for tinder…called by the Northern Indians Jolt-thee, and is known all over the country bordering on Hudson’s Bay by the name of Pesogan…there is another...
    • Le Loup
    • Thread
    • 18th century documentation fire lighting fungus gunpowder bag gunpowder wallet period quotes plant tinders tinder
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Accoutrements
  6. Le Loup

    Flint, Steel & Tinderbox.

    • Le Loup
    • Thread
    • 18th century fire lighting flint & steel making fire tinderbox
    • Replies: 107
    • Forum: Accoutrements
  7. Le Loup

    No "charcloth" Flint & Steel Fire Lighting.

    Keith.
    • Le Loup
    • Thread
    • 18th century authenticity fire lighting flint & steel historical making fire tinderbox
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Australia / New Zealand
  8. Le Loup

    Field Preparation Of Plant Tinder For Use With Flint & Steel By Charring.

    • Le Loup
    • Thread
    • 18th century charring fire lighting historical trekking plant tinders tinder tinderbox
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Camp & Trail Gear
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