[TheForge] Fire Steel redux

[Peter Hirst]

I saw an exapmle to day of the fire striker with the steeled edge I am being asked to reproduce.  Pretty amazing.  The steeled part consists of  seam barely wide enough to see slit into the 3/16 striking face,  with a strip  perhaps 1/8 wide and .005 or .010 thick set edgwise into it . That little sliver of steel is all that's required to provide the spark.  Now that's economy.  Not a $75 job at all.  Maybe 25.  the whole thing is perhaps 3" long (fits 3 fingers) and the striking edge is perhaps 2".  so begin with a piece of 3/16 x 1/2, draw out a pair of horns, slit the edge 1/8 deep, insert the steel (piano wire?) and forge closed.  

Keziah