ejeans make good patchingpatching material

[twotoescharlie]

old worn blue jeans make good patching, several different thicknesses, already good and soft. just make sure they are 100% cotton.

TTC

 

:rotf: Yeah! polyester really makes a mess.!!!

 

[musketman]

old worn blue jeans make good patching, several different thicknesses, already good and soft. just make sure they are 100% cotton.

TTC

There are many that use blue jeans for patches, the plus side is you can find the material everywhere, thrift shops, yard sales, your wife's laundry hamper, the possibilities are endless...

 

[Griz]

Also makes for some fine Char cloth, because of the thickness it really makes a hot starter for fire.

 

Char cloth?Explain please.Might put something like that in my huntin pack.

 

[Griz]

Be sure that your blue jeans are 100% cotton, then cut them into 2" squares, put some in a tin with a lid that fits fairly tight with a small nail hole in it. Sit the tin in a fire and the smoke will shoot out of the hole. When the smoke quits use a stick and roll the tin out of the fire and let it cool. After it is cool enough to handle open and you have char cloth. Put a peice of that in your tinder nest and with a flint and steel strike a spark onto the char cloth and pick the nest up and curl the tinder around the lit char and blow it into a fire. I hope this helps, maybe someone else can embellish on this some more.

 

[J.D.]

Old denim fabric is THE BEST char material I have found. I don't attend many events, prefering to run the woods, so my concern is reliablity. With that in mind, old denim produces the hottest, most reliable char of any fabric I have tried. One can not only light a candle with it, but any piece of wax, with, or without a wick.

I often use a thumbnail or slightly larger piece of charred denim to catch a spark, then transfer the coal to charred punkwood, especially when conditions are less than perfect.

I always get a fire, by hook or crook.
J.D.

 

[Griz]

I often use a thumbnail or slightly larger piece of charred denim to catch a spark, then transfer the coal to charred punkwood, especially when conditions are less than perfect.
J.D.

HEY, thats one heck of a good idea. I always had trouble getting punk wood to catch a spark, but that pretty smart thinkin'. And, yes denim does make for a very HOT spark.
Levi's, not just for wearin' any more :thumbsup: