[TheForge] Steel for Strikers (flint sources?)

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Mike:
I think you should rent them out....pf

Mike Linn wrote:
> I sent a big rock to someone last year but dont remember who. The 
> primary crop in my mothers yard are flint rocks. I dont have them here 
> as I live on what was an alluvial plain, but she lives 40 miles north on 
> the side of Wheeler Mtn and I think its just one big rock.. her yard is 
> literally littered with chunks of flinty rocks.
> 
> mike
> 
> At 03:18 PM 4/17/2007, you wrote:
>> I use 1095. It produces the most consistant sparks.  It isn't cheap 
>> unless you
>> use old springs.  If you aren't making too many, you could use old car 
>> springs.
>> If you have access to a junk yard, pick up a bunch of old springs.  I 
>> had to
>> make a few hundred so I invested in some stock (1/4 x 1/2). It 
>> required less
>> work than flattening the springs.
>>
>> BTW:  Anyone know where I can get some flint flakes?  I need a couple 
>> of hundred
>> to sell with my strikers this summer.  My source dried up and someone 
>> on this
>> list sent me some a few years back, but I don't remember who....Mike?
>>
>> Advice anyone?
> 
> 
>            Mike Linn
>      Artist Blacksmith
>         McCalla, AL
> 
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