Originally Posted By: Alex
HackSaw. The secret is in the composite material - magnesium "impregnated" fire steel. So, after you strike the rod you have magnesium chunks burning at 5000C on your tinder (for a couple of seconds).


I thought that's what a fire steel did in the first place. A ferrocium alloy rod burns at 3000 degrees C and magnesium burns at 2200 C...Either way hot enough to ignite something flammable. The real key will be to know how long the magnesium part burns for...I'll be curious to find out!