Whether its the angst ridden protagonist searching for treasure in a fantasy novel or Lewis and Clark searching for the northwest passage a tinder box is the one thing they either steal or buy before heading out on their adventure.
From what I can gather this tinder box usually contains; flint, steel, charred cloth, and maybe other natural fiber tinder
Pretty simple really but when out in the wild its probably the single most important piece of kit, well except maybe a knife and neither of the the a fore mentioned folks would leave the house with out a blade right?
These days the tinder box has been replaced with matches or a lighter, not bad really but I think its shortsighted. What if the lighter fails? the matches are wet or you just use them up too fast? Having dry tinder and maybe something to generate a spark to hand is not a bad thing.
I decided to put together my modern take on a tinder box. Its a mix of old technology and new but I can start a fire with it as long as I can fine wood to burn.
Thoughts and suggestions any one?
My Modern Tinder Box
- Small Otter Box
- Some fat wood
- Steel Wool
- Cotton wadding
- Spark Lite tinder
- Several feet of juts cord
- Patch of leather to stop rattling and to move a coal from one place to another
- Very small fire steel*
- Very small knife*
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