Char cloth
Was kickin' around night making char cloth and i've always had mixed results from t-shirts, jeans and other things labeled 100% until I tried making it from old FAK cravats made 3 batches last night...
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OK I give up. What are FAK cravats? Never heard of them... I always have good luck with Levi's jeans for charcloth, great stuff, and thick enough that the ember moves slowly through the char. I think...
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the best char cloth ive ever made came from scrapes of heavy cotton canvas(like a painters tarp)
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The stuff is so good, I've started fires with the the char cloth and no additional tinder. It's so thick, It ignites when you blow on it. I guess the inner core is not fully charred and burns...
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Cotton gun cleaning patches work great and are precut. They are made of thick cotton canvas. Best I have ever used.
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thanks for the info ,I have a file that throws really good sparks with some local rocks and keokuk but my cut up walmart pants char cloth would not ignite as fast as I thought it should ,now I have...
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100 per cent cotton or linen works for store bought materials. Wash them to get the sizing out and dry them on hottest setting on a dryer or to shrink the materials. Monk cloth, diaper flannel,...
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The last batch of char cloth I made was out of a cotton t-shirt and some gun cleaning patches and they work excellent. I am just using a piece of small broken file but I am pretty impressed with the...
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my file is about 20 year old it is has american swiss written on it it has a star plus sign star and a circle on it it is a fine tooth file cut in a grid ,one edge of it was sooth it works seriously...
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Well put beardedhorse. I first learned the "On Top" method of holding the charcloth. After many years of practice, I do get one strike embers most of the time with On Top if I'm very careful about the...
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