Keith
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Bushfire close but safe now. Getting some good rain.
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Post by Keith on Mar 5, 2019 16:43:36 GMT -7
 My greased leather fire bag. This bag contains my tinderbox & keeps my tinder dry. I roll the top down & carry it in my belt pouch.
 My brass tinderbox containing punkwood & fungus tinder & a musket flint.
 My fire steel. This is an original 18th century steel that was forged from a metal file.
 My belt pouch, fire bag, tinderbox & fire steel. The steel is tied off to the buckle on the belt pouch & is carried in the belt pouch.
woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com/2018/09/more-on-fire-bags-or-flint-steel-pouches.html
woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com/2012/03/more-on-flint-and-steel-pouches.html
woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com/2012/06/small-lappland-fire-bags-or-tinder.html
"and with a girdle of their making, bound round about their middles, to which girdle is fastned a bagg, in which his instruments be, with which hee can strike fire upon any occasion".Anonymous 1637.
“He carrieth about him a purse of tewed leather, a mineral stone and a flat emery stone, tied fast to the end of a little stick. Gently, he striketh upon the mineral stone, and within a strike or two, a spark falleth upon a piece of touchwood and with the least spark, he maketh the fire."
- John Brereton describing the firemaking skills of the Wampanoag Indians (early 17th century).
Keith.
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Post by brokennock on Apr 7, 2019 18:42:03 GMT -7
In your second quote, is "he" striking the "mineral stone" with the "emery stone" or with a steel?
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Keith
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Bushfire close but safe now. Getting some good rain.
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Post by Keith on Apr 7, 2019 21:57:02 GMT -7
In your second quote, is "he" striking the "mineral stone" with the "emery stone" or with a steel? I think this may possibly refer to striking iron pyrite. Keith. |
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Post by brokennock on Apr 9, 2019 18:31:42 GMT -7
In your second quote, is "he" striking the "mineral stone" with the "emery stone" or with a steel? I think this may possibly refer to striking iron pyrite. Keith. I kinda wondered about that too after I asked. Someday I'll try some, could be interesting to play with. |
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Keith
City-dweller
Bushfire close but safe now. Getting some good rain.
Posts: 990
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Post by Keith on Apr 9, 2019 20:29:23 GMT -7
I think this may possibly refer to striking iron pyrite. Keith. I kinda wondered about that too after I asked. Someday I'll try some, could be interesting to play with.I agree, same here. I have been keeping my eyes open for pyrite but no luck so far. Keith. |
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Post by Black Hand on Apr 10, 2019 5:55:00 GMT -7
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Post by hawkeyes on Apr 10, 2019 17:20:51 GMT -7
  My main kit, simple heavily greased bison hide sewn with heavy linen thread. Contents are a simple forged striker, shard and punk wood tin. I also keep a separate kit that is always stowed within my knapsack that contains other various accoutrements to birth a fire from cattails, fat wood, birch bark, cedar bark and tow. This kit is housed within a tightly woven linen bag and waterproofed with a mink tallow/ beeswax mixture. I'll snap a few images of the second kits contents at a later time. To procure fire in the method of our ancestors is a fine endeavor. |
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