How To Make Reactive Char Cloth And Charred Punk Wood

Your char cloth has to be clean and supple to be the most reactive to a flint and steel. All char cloth comes out of our char tins with a certain amount of smoke residue on it. That residue will make it slightly less reactive. The real culprit, though, is char cloth that comes out brittle. That will make it from... only slightly less reactive to completely unignitable.
I know the big controversy over having a hole vs having no hole in your char tin. Let me just say this. It is a REALLY bad idea to not have a big hole in your char tin. I use a 1/4". A big vent hole allows gases, deposits, and smoke residue to easily exit the tin... not allowing them more time to linger and coat the char materials.
The best way to keep the batch of char cloth from becoming brittle is to protect the hottest part of the char tin from contacting the fabric. While I was experimenting with ways to keep the red hot metal of a char tin from the fabric (see my double walled char tin video below) a subscriber, Richard Solomon, recommended using punk wood on the bottom as a buffer. He was right. That simple fix, for me, made brittle batches of char cloth a rarity.
Come see this very easy technique, see me make a new char tin from a hair products can, and see me build a grease lamp to use that hair product in.
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