Now gather around I'm going to show you how to make a fire right here on standing and if you ever out in the rain like we are today and you need your fire kit keep it in a dry spot like I do. I'm going to show you actually how to make fire the way I'm dressed today. I'm dressed from 200 years ago and 200 years ago one of the most common things we would have had in our survival bags are pouches that I've seen me wearing was a fire striker. Our blacksmith right over there, Ben Rogers, is actually making some of these strikers and he does have some of them over there. He said for sale so if you want to get one that's where you'd want to go. Now this is what's called flint and steel and it's basically the idea of where a big lighter got its idea from. The big lighter when you rub the round thing that's the steel running across a piece of flint and what happens? You get a spark. Watch this. This is hardened steel from an old file or something like that and a little piece of flint. This is actually an old musket flint for my muskets that wore out and instead of throwing it away I like to use it for my fire kit because this black flint throws off real good spark. If I don't get a good spark I got to shave off the rust, get rid of that rust or maybe I got to sharpen up the edge on that flint. A dull edge won't give you a good spark but if you got a good sharp piece of flint and a good striker you should get sparks with every strike just like I'm doing in here. See all those sparks? Those sparks are tiny shavings of steel coming off that that's what it is. As a matter of fact if I use this enough times probably it would be more in my lifetime I would actually wear it out. I think it would take an awful lot. Good hard pieces steel will last a while and that's what you're seeing in there those sparks. Now the way to do this is to capture the spark and what I'm going to use to capture the spark is a cloth just like I'm wearing except it's been burned. By burning the cloth it becomes char. The char is kind of like halfway between ashes and cloth. It's just char. Keep it dry though. All that takes is a good little piece of char to off there. Catch your spark. The first spark that hits that is going to light it. Now to get the flame I've got a nest over here. This nest is made out of some Spanish moss. I like to use the old pine needles. The ones that have been walked over on the trails and become fluff or maybe if it's rainy like today and we don't have any good dry material find a palm tree that's got the boots still on there and yank them off and you got that hair back in the between the bark and the trunk of the tree and the boots. That's called monkey hair if you call it or gorilla hair but it's actually the palm fiber and it works real good for fire starting. Even on a wet day sometimes you can pull out a palm tree apart and get some dry material for getting your fire going. Okay let's see if we can get this to happen. One spark or two sparks whatever takes to land on that to get it going. Here we go. There it is already burning. One spark hit it there. Now our nest. A little bit of air. There you go. How about that? What do you think?