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Suing The Turkeys At TOTW
- Thread starter Glenfilthie
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Stophel said:
but don't that make it twice as dangerous as one flint?? :shocked2: ............... :haha:
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Do not try this at home. Stunts performed by trained professionals. We cannot be held liable for any injury or death stemming from any attempt to reproduce these stunts. For informational/educational/entertainment purposes only.
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dang! now ya tell me! i jus went thru a solid month tryin to catch a spark usin my gun... :shake: THEN :shake: I read ya suppose to be usin a flintlock! :shake: oh,,,it should be unloaded too :shocked2: but it worked! :thumbsup:
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You're in Bill! What do they call that? A 'class action (frivolous) suit'?
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Fellers, I know it is kinda rude to ask, especially as how I am going to sue you all for making horrible jokes about my quest for fire...
But how do you knap flint? Can a fella teach himself? Black powder geeks are few and far between up here and unfortunately the ones around here are much like myself: drunks, tosspots and black hearted cudgels...most are even MORE incompetent than I am! :grin:
Unfortunately I am on my own and my survival up here in the cold depends on you guys and the internet. :wink:
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Fellers, I know it is kinda rude to ask, especially as how I am going to sue you all for making horrible jokes about my quest for fire...
But how do you knap flint? Can a fella teach himself? Black powder geeks are few and far between up here and unfortunately the ones around here are much like myself: drunks, tosspots and black hearted cudgels...most are even MORE incompetent than I am! :grin:
Unfortunately I am on my own and my survival up here in the cold depends on you guys and the internet. :wink:
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Glenfilthie said:
jus so I know what Zip Code to avoid business letters from and Area Code to avoid on the phone.......where in the hell are you??? :shocked2:
knap a flint? Easy!!! just chip away on it till it's sharp enough to cut yer fingers! :thumbsup: I'm sure the guys here can explain easier than me with just the 7 fingers to type with......
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Musketman said:
Whichever works best for you. Personally, I strike flint with steel.
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Musketman said:
Just make sure your char is on the side of the flint where the sparks will be.
Musketman said:
Considering that this guy made fire with only two strikes on the steel, we know what he'd recommend. :wink:
Carl makes a good point too. If you are going to strike the flint with the steel, I find that it helps to hold the char cloth on top of the flint.
Sometimes you have to try several different ways to see what works best for you. (How's that for a politically correct answer?)
Carl Davis said:
Thanks Carl, I do it that way. I tried it the other way for for an example and the char gets beat to death pretty quickly.
Now that I think about it, the flint on a flintlock moves in the cock to hit the steel (frizzen) so I guess a flint and steel fire set should act accordingly.
This post is to ALL. I don't know how to reply to ALL.
I read this whole thread useless trash as it is, it sure is funny :haha:
One point, in quenching you only need the face of the striker that hot, so you could hold the steel with tongs and just quench the face and sides a bit for that glass hard effect we need, and leave the rest of the "C" not heated as much and certainly not quenched.
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Either hand can hold either the flint or the striker. It depends on what you want to do.
If you want to stand up and are right handed, hold the flint and tinder with char in your left hand and strike down grazzing the flint with the steel in your right hand.
The char should be on top of the flint in this case, since scraping off the sparks with have them on top of the flint.
If you want to sit over a nest on the ground, or be kneeling then you can place the flint in your right hand, the steel in your left, and the nest on the ground with the char in it.
Then this way you hold the steel still over the nest and strike down with the flint grazing the steel.
Up heya' in New Hampsta the ground is wet so I tend to stand.
As it happens I have a beard, it gets so cold here in winta' even our women grow a beard.
As it also happens I don't like smoke in my eyes as it appears to strangers that I am in the act of crying, and I never cry, not ever, not even when i cut myself trying to start fire with a flint and steel. See? never!
But I still remember playing wind mill in Kindergarten, so I don't blow into a glowing nest, I wind mill it, and don't git me no smoke in my eyes.
Ah just now I see 'review other posts' next time I will be naming names! :blah:
I read this whole thread useless trash as it is, it sure is funny :haha:
One point, in quenching you only need the face of the striker that hot, so you could hold the steel with tongs and just quench the face and sides a bit for that glass hard effect we need, and leave the rest of the "C" not heated as much and certainly not quenched.
........
Either hand can hold either the flint or the striker. It depends on what you want to do.
If you want to stand up and are right handed, hold the flint and tinder with char in your left hand and strike down grazzing the flint with the steel in your right hand.
The char should be on top of the flint in this case, since scraping off the sparks with have them on top of the flint.
If you want to sit over a nest on the ground, or be kneeling then you can place the flint in your right hand, the steel in your left, and the nest on the ground with the char in it.
Then this way you hold the steel still over the nest and strike down with the flint grazing the steel.
Up heya' in New Hampsta the ground is wet so I tend to stand.
As it happens I have a beard, it gets so cold here in winta' even our women grow a beard.
As it also happens I don't like smoke in my eyes as it appears to strangers that I am in the act of crying, and I never cry, not ever, not even when i cut myself trying to start fire with a flint and steel. See? never!
But I still remember playing wind mill in Kindergarten, so I don't blow into a glowing nest, I wind mill it, and don't git me no smoke in my eyes.
Ah just now I see 'review other posts' next time I will be naming names! :blah:
