I have a little experience and have had a little sucess making sparks by striking to rocks together or by striking a stainless steel knife to a rock but I'm talking about teeny tiny sparks. The way I understand it is that the software the metal, the more spark you get when striking it with a hard quartz-type flint rock. I'm very much about dual use items so my steel needs to be my knife as well, otherwise I could just use another rock (one with decent about of iron). As I have already mentioned, stainless steel givesme the very tiniest of spark on the rare occasions that it sparks at all. So decided to go with a knife made of softer steel and also one that was cheap enough that I could bang on it all day with rocks without bursting out in to tears. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Well I though the Frost Mora would be the perfect fit but it is not. The carbon steel Mora produces little more spark than the stainless steel did.

Could this be beacuse I bought the "laminated" version of the Mora blade steel?