A picture of your firesteel would assist.

My Swedish firesteels are in two sizes, a 1/4" diameter rod and a 3/8" rod.

Both versions have a contoured plastic thumbpiece in black or dark green plastic and are embossed

"FIRESTEEL"

They also make an oval wood handled version that is not marked.

The scraper design has changed over the years from a simple flat oval metal scraper to a wide contoured version that is also stamped (but I do not have one of those with me today to verify with what).

This is a large Swedish Military Firesteel





This one is green, but it is hard to tell



Does the steel you got work? If it works and is as large as a these FireSteels I am guessing you are OK even if it is a different actual retailer.


Edited by Schwert (03/15/05 02:16 AM)