char cloth

[Gopher0]

How do yall carry your char cloth from breaking all up when out camping or hunting or just out and about?

I carry it it in the can I made it in

 

[user 30283]

Not PC but I use an old Altoids tin. LOL

Altoids "came out" in 1780.

 

[kitcarson]

I use denim.

I do too for my survival classes

 

[azmntman]

Somebody post a video on what is char punk wood and how to find it and char it. Lik the idea bettr than char cloth. I need to see some things.

 

[BillyC]

Somebody post a video on what is char punk wood and how to find it and char it. Lik the idea bettr than char cloth. I need to see some things.

This is “punky” wood. Rotten and very spongy. It’s usually quite wet when I find it. I let it dry out before making char punk.

 

[azmntman]

OK, I see that all the time. How to turn to Char for fire making kit?

And THANKS fr the excellent video. Appreciated.

 

[BillyC]

OK, I see that all the time. How to turn to Char for fire making kit?

And THANKS fr the excellent video. Appreciated.

Same as char cloth. Put in a closed tin with a small hole in the top for smoke to escape and lay on the fire until smoke stops coming out. I use an old Seresto dog collar tin with a chunk of steel on top to keep the lid from coming g off.

 

[Ohio Rusty]

I use a couple of round tins for making char. The thrift stores are loaded with small tins suitable for making char cloth. When I grill out, that is a great opportunity to make a couple more batches of char cloth.
Ohio Rusty ><>

 

[thehorn]

Somebody post a video on what is char punk wood and how to find it and char it. Lik the idea bettr than char cloth. I need to see some things.

Check out David West’s channel on YouTube. He has a very good episode on making char from punk wood.

 

[oreclan]

Not PC but I use an old Altoids tin. LOL

I carry many things in Altoids tins. I either scorch the paint off, or paint them with an enamel paint.

 

[LANEY REECE]

Thank yall for giving feed back. I am going to try the punk wood char.

 

[Coinneach]

Ah ha! Altoids are a brand of mints, sold primarily in distinctive metal tins. The brand was created by the London-based Smith & Company in the 1780s, and became part of the Callard & Bowser company in the 19th century. Their advertising slogan is "The Original Celebrated Curiously Strong Mints", referring to the high concentration of peppermint oil used in the original flavour lozenge. The mints were originally conceived as a lozenge intended to relieve intestinal discomfort.

I've personally used a Cash tinderbox for decades, and have no problem with char breaking up. I also have an antique pocket ashtray that works very well.

I've had a Cash tinderbox (oval type with magnifying glass) for decades and Char cloth never breaks up in it, Flint and Steel with "bulls wool" all packed in too.
Frankly I rate Ted Cash's gear top rung, my adult daughter birthday gifted me a new Ted Cash Percussion cap dispenser, its the most "jim dandy" and practical period tool a guy could ever wish for.

Kinda relieved I dont have to carry percussion caps around under my tongue anymore.....

 

[Coinneach]

I use an old Seresto collar tin to make the char cloth, then divvy it up between fire kits for the kids. They have fero rods in their kits and a flint and steel in a separate tin

"I use an old Seresto collar tin to make the char cloth....) we've got them here Down Under too, they make great tins for storing Char cloth, burn off the paint and then japan them for authenticity if desired.

I make my Char cloth in bulk then store it in tins.

 

[waksupi]

I've had a Cash tinderbox (oval type with magnifying glass) for decades and Char cloth never breaks up in it, Flint and Steel with "bulls wool" all packed in too.
Frankly I rate Ted Cash's gear top rung, my adult daughter birthday gifted me a new Ted Cash Percussion cap dispenser, its the most "jim dandy" and practical period tool a guy could ever wish for.

Kinda relieved I dont have to carry percussion caps around under my tongue anymore.....

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I've never had it break up in a Cash tinderbox, either. Something that surprised me recently, a friend who has been buckskinning and known Tedd as long as I have, never realized he could use the magnifying glass to ignite his tinder!

 

[Johnny Tremain]

Altoids can also. Dont let the smoke stop it gets too brittle. I pull mine while the smoke just statrts to peter out.

 

[Brokennock]

Let's see if this link works...


From one of our infrequently seen members from "down under."

 

[pacanis]

I think in Jeremiah Johnson he is using a tin that Ted Cash presently makes. The tin that has a hinged top where 2/3 of the top opens. (Too lazy to take a pic.)
And I'd bet he is using punk wood. He can be seen trying to strike a spark into the tin, which is how I've always used punk wood when playing with F&S. I leave it in the tin and push my bird's nest on top of it when I see embers.

 

[reddogge]

I gave my friend's grandson two Axe hair cream tins, one drilled for making char cloth and one not drilled for storage. He's about 11 and really into flint and steel fire starting.

 

[smo]

Here’s an old pic from when I first put my fire kit together…

The Ted Cash box holds my char cloth. The leather wrap has two pockets, one for my flint & one for my steel..
Then the box is rolled up in the wrap & secured with a leather tong…

No problem with crushed char, as long as the box is kept fairly full..

 

[Seamus]

I use a couple of round tins for making char. The thrift stores are loaded with small tins suitable for making char cloth. When I grill out, that is a great opportunity to make a couple more batches of char cloth.
Ohio Rusty ><>
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If you drill the hole in the side of the lid rather than on the top, you can twist the lid closed when carrying the char in order to keep moisture out.