How do you store your flints?

[TDM]

I've been doing it for many years after hearing of flint knappers who preferred fresh dug chert because of the water it was exposed to. Some also keep certain types in water because it makes the stone work more predictably for them.

Learn something new every day.

 

[Nemo Vir]

In a cedar box.…what? It smell nice.

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

A small flint wallet that holds three:

 

[toot]

Curious how others keep their extras.

The flint wallet is one I made that stays in my possibles bag.

The storage box I bought a couple of years ago at Hobby Lobby in the raw (cheaper than I could have built it) and I stained and finished it.

a really nice flint wallet! and have to agree with you on the box! it is great! I would have never have went to there to look for that great box.

 

[toot]

Only the best for my flints.

is that a CROWN ROYAL BAG??

 

[toot]

A small flint wallet that holds three:

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I for one like it. did you make it? it serves the purpose when on a trek!

 

[mmb617]

One of those 7 day plastic pill boxes with one flint in each of the first five compartments and one pre-cut leather pad in each of the last two. The spares at home are just kept in the zip-lock bag they came in.

 

[Johnny Tremain]

When I bought the bulk of my flinter from a gent on this board a decade or so ago, they came in a paper, plastic coated blue folder. They are still in there.

 

[deerstalkert]

Learn something new every day.

be careful of what you think you have learned. studies have shown that water will penetrate chert at the rate of one molecule depth every 500 years or so.

 

[TDM]

be careful of what you think you have learned. studies have shown that water will penetrate chert at the rate of one molecule depth every 500 years or so.

I’ll just keep mine in the box then.

 

[Yankee]

Made a flint wallet from scraps of old leather. It also has a pocket large enough to store my brush and vent pick.

 

[david w]

I keep 2 or 3 loose flints in the small pocket of my hunting bag. I've thought about a flint wallet, but decided it takes up too much room.

 

[Capnball]

 

[PathfinderNC]

I keep English and French flints in a jar of water.

Distilled or tap?

 

[Ames]

Keep mine in the small plastic bags they came in. By the group they came to me as.
I also keep 2 or 3 in the guns patch box with a scrap of buckskin. The leather keeps them from rattling around and can be cut for replacement jaw pads in the field.

 

[2 shots]

if you are one of those guys who shoots 'THE HOLY BLACK' than you should use holy water.

 

[user 49399]

I keep a few in a flint wallet, some more in a plastic jar and the rest are still in the ground, up behind the barn whenever I need them.

 

[Erwan]

No comment...

 

[Uncle Miltie]

Distilled or tap?

Brackish, from a SE FL canal....but it makes no difference, I use tap wasser.

 

[Redlemur60]

A wise person,might practice knapping .Enough to make their own and buy some chert. I think i paid ?40$for 30# of james town.(more than a lifetime supply!