I hope they take you up on your invite this is by far the best site on survival. It was obvious that the writer of the hints just plucked info from books and either left things out or chose less than ideal info. Which is a shame since the other info in the main article was excellant. The fire article being an example it was obvious he didn't even know the difference between artificial flint rods and flint and steel.My own experiance has been that carbon steel Moras,Opinels, some axes and files and hacksaw blades with the teeth ground off with out burning the steel work with char,0000 steel wool or tinder fungus when using a hard striker like quartz or chert, if the tinders bone dry and you practice alot. The only thing I haven't tried yet is all natural with fine grain pyrite and tinder fungus. Having said that why would anyone use anything but a flint rod that works on any good tinder and weighs less to boot. Which reminds me a good hint that I learned fron Mors is that the wax soaked wick of the candle in your survival kit ,lights as easily as a tinder cube if you fluff it with your finger before you spark it with you flint rod.I'm suprised the makers of survival tins without good tinder don't mention it.