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Fire with flint on flint?

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markinengland:
Well, I went out and collected some flint today.
The spark of flint on steel is much better, hotter and longer lasting than that frome flint alone, but flint does seem to send a spark off that could just possibly be causght in good tinder. i think it would take a very patient person to do it and make a flame though.
Just as an after comment, I was stood in a paleolithic flint mine working today, uncovered by collapse on the North Downs. Amazing to think that men were digging flint there thousands of years ago.
Mark in England

DanaM:
mark did you take any pictures by chance?

markinengland:
Dana,
I didn't take my camera but I plan on going back there.
Mark

markinengland:
I had a go tonight at making fire with flint on flint.
I didn't succeed.
My memory may be playing rticks with me but I feel that the flint I had available as a boy some 300 miles north sparked better than the stuff I have now.
Mark

stickbender:

     Well you certainly have no problems finding flint in England!  When I was in Bognor Regis, in 91, the beach, was litterally covered in it, and hedges, by the appartments, Or I should say "flats", were full of it.  I wish I could get a train car full of that stuff.  Nice, bluish black stuff.  Try the char cloth, or some rubbed cedar bark.  The inside of the bark.  And put the Flint right on top of it, and "whack" it with another piece of Flint.  Just keep it up at a fairly steady pace.  Just a guess on my part, but it just might catch.
     I wish I was able to afford to go back there.  I loved it.  Never got to go to the Lakes District, or to Ireland, or Scotland.  Did get to go to " Wooten Under Edge ", though, "it's where me ancestors are from".Beautiful little town. 

                                                                       Stick Bender
                                                                                 

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