Paul,

The CountyComm metal match is a much softer and more porous alloy than the MagFire. The MagFire is well built with attention paid to detail, not on being the lowest bidder for a military contract.

Your best bet on a striker is to carry a jigsaw blade or a piece of hacksaw blade - using the SPINE as the striker. Any ferrocerium rod is a metal alloy, and, if you use your knife edge as a scraper, you're looking for trouble. Many knives out there right now have adequately sharp spines which will strike a great spark - the Al Mar SERE 2000, the Fallkniven Model P and Model U2, Benchmade Griptilian, Spyderco Native are some examples. Other knives, like the Victorinox Swiss Army Knives or Leatherman Tools have implements which make great strikers - ie. awls and saw spines or files.

Experiment and you'll find an adequate striker. Typically, if the blade spine will shave away material from your thumb nail, it will scrape a spark from a ferro rod...

M