How To Make A Flint And Steel, Steel From A File. Jute Lanyard

When I line up the 3 steels that I made from 14", 12", and 10" Nicholson files, it looks like one is missing. LOL!!! Let's head back to the Flea Market and find the missing one, an 8" Nicholson file and do another Steel build. An 8" file is a lot smaller than the other 3 sizes. It's a couple inches shorter and only half the thickness. Such a small amount of mass actually changes the whole dynamic of getting the sparks to cast. Simply put, I think the small steel is just bouncing off the Chert before it's had enough time and contact to be scraped. There's some physics in play here...Newton's First Law of Motion states that a body at rest will remain at rest unless an outside force acts on it, and a body in motion at a constant velocity will remain in motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force. This steel has exactly the same steel and exactly the same sparkiness as the bigger ones, but requires a bigger piece of Chert, moving twice as fast, with twice the force to get it to cast sparks. That's not the only difference. The sparks that are being cast are moving much faster and now tend to ricochet off the char cloth instead of stick. Because of this new dynamic, I'm only averaging 3 to 4 strikes for ignition instead of the usual 1 to 2. I'm sure with practice that I could improve to 2 to 3 strikes for ignition. Interesting! Please follow the LINKs below and SUBSCRIBE. Thank you! Flint And Steel Playlist    • Flint And Steel Playlist   Make A Steel Out Of A File Playlist    • How To Make A Steel Out Of A File Playlist   Cobra Weave Tutorial, for severely “knot challenged” people like me!    • Cobra Weave Tutorial For Severely Knot Cha...