Made My First Charcloth

[TyrannyUnleashed]

the cloth will be completly black when done. If it's brown it aint there yet and wont hold a spark.

lol,
I did learn that lesson already. With a follow up, I just finished making our dogs (for dinner) and more charcloth. Things do look to be much better this time around. I think I was putting too much cloth in the tin can.

This just means I'm going to have to keep making food on the grill for a while (a lot) longer ;-)

[Matt In Oklahoma]

Things do look to be much better this time around.

Sweeeet! I did some more last night for a new youth hunter. Gotta teach him now before he heads out into the deer woods! I've been making fire kits outta tins my sons friend gives us and I put the fire straws, a small lighter, charcloth in a baggie and a fire steel in them and show them how to use it and make more with the tin kit.

[DIM TIM]

Got a good friend who made his cooker from a Hershey's Cocoa Tin, and his works really well. I like the idea of using a small mint tin for a few pieces. 100% cotton gun cleaning patches are the perfect pieces to make these from, but any good quality cotton scraps will work great for these. Thanks for the post. I'll have to try one of these small tins for sure.:D

[SCinPNW]

Great info, thanks!

[redneckhillbilly]

I've been teaching our cubscouts how to make charcloth for the past two years. They think its really neat. i was surprised when talking to the Boyscouts that they didn't know about it. I've been instructing ta few of them on how to make it also. They are amazed at how quickly they can get a fire going just using sparks. Each year at our final campout for the cubscout year i test our webelos who are transitioning to boyscouts on how to build a fire, how to make charcloth and how quickly they can get a fire started and burn thru a foot high string.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

Myself and Sharpshooter tried something new to us recently by using a magnifier on the charcloth. I knew it caught spark easily but didnt know how if work with the solar burn. It works great! It caught fire within seconds!

[Matt In Oklahoma]

So my Daughter comes in today and asks if "I have any extra charcloth". I says "Sure whats up". She says "Well we were discussing chemical and physical changes in lab today and I thought this would be good for me to take to school and display". "It shows a chemical change and the results".
Man am I a Proud Papa right now!
Loaded her up with the before and afters and sent it with her. Sweetness, and just when you think they aint listening!

[Benn Gleck]

Man thats GREAT Matt!

Makes ya feel better about teachin this kinda stuff.

[Benn Gleck]

I almost forgot to tell ya I found a good material for charcloth if you have dampor hard to start tinder, cotton lampwick. Its pretty cheap if ya buy in bulk. I wouldn't use it all the time but its nice for special needs.

Here's a link for lampwick in bulk. http://http://www.lanternnet.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=WKL&Product_Co de=WICK805x33&Category_Code=RPAW

[Matt In Oklahoma]

Cool, thanks!

[scott2820]

I made some from pieces of a cotton t shirt and out worked great.