Drier lint works great, one spark and you get instant flames. But I want to be able to start a fire with the fire steel from forest debris without having to strike it 25-times.


The pencil sharpener idea sounds good, I will have to experiment with it so see how well it works.



A little story about my son that happened a few months ago.

He’s 18-years old and was over for the weekend. He saw a baggie full of drier lint sitting on a shelve amonge the camping stuff in the basement. He says “Dad, why are you are saving this, you are weird.”

I took the fire steel and some of the lint outside and showed him how well it works to start a fire. He says “that’s so cool!!!” He had to have a fire steel so we went and bought him a fire steel. And now I would guess he has a baggie of it stashed away in his camping stuff. I just told him not to play with it in the basement, don’t want him burning down the X’s house.