Leather Mini Pocket Hand Tooled Tinder Pouch with Flint & Steel Fire Lighting Kit - Limited Edition

Hand Stitched Leather Mini Pocket Tinderbox Pouch

with Traditional Flint & Steel & Mini Fire Lighting Kit.

• FREE UK Delivery
• Made in the UK 
• High Quality Veg Tanned Leather
• Hand Made Leather Pocket Pouch
• Hand Crossed Stitched
• Artificial Sinew
• Hand Tooled Detail
• Wet Moulded
• Hand Dyed
• Rustic Appearance
• Colour: Dark Brown
• Sam Brown Stud
• Measures: 85mm x 75mm
• Made in the UK
• Pocket sized designed to fit into 'pockets'!
• Pocket Leather Tinderbox Pouch contains:
• A Traditional Mini Curley 'C' Steel Striker
• Triskele Detail 
• East to use & Spark
• 2 x  Natural Piece of Sharp Flint
• Natural Amadou Tinder 
• 5 x Mini Sulphur Matches
• 2 x Mini Bees Wax Candles
• Jute Tinder Cord for Jute Nest 
• Limited Edition Piece

 The Tinder Pouch

This high quality Pocket sized Pouch has been hand stitched, wet moulded, hand tooled & hand dyed to give the pouch some authentic character. It does not have to be used as a tinderbox/pouch but can be used for keeping small change in or other small objects. The whole idea is that it is pocket sized and tough!! Its just big enough to contain all your basic needs for a small Tinder Pouch. This little Mini Pouch has been hand dyed and we have carefully let the texture of the leather show to add a little bit of character and patina. 

The Fire Steel

This small traditional curley 'C' Fire Steel is ideal for all of the traditional ‘Flint & Steel’ fire lighting techniques. Although this fire steel is quite small in design it does not detract from bountiful supply of sparks that it is able to produce when struck against a piece of flint able to create an ember on the first strike. This particular Fire Steel is a limited edition piece. It has a triskele cut out design and is made from high carbon steel, designed and made by us at Beaver Bushcraft 

JUTE TINDER CORD:

The Pocket Tinder Pouch contains 1x 6" Jute Tinder Cord that has been made from natural plant fibres, which are loosely twisted into a 3-yarn cord. It is the best jute that there is for traditional ‘Flint & Steel’ fire lighting. it is easy to carry a few of these cords in your tinderbox ready to make a Tinder Bundle without having to scavenge around for dried bulky grasses, plant downs and other materials to make your Tinder Bundle. It takes just one piece of Jute Tinder Cord to create a fire.

Simply:

1. Untwist one piece of Jute Tinder Cord into its constituent fibres.
2. Fluff the fibres up and roll into a loose ball to make a small Tinder Bundle.
3. Place a glowing ember into the Jute Cord Tinder Bundle.
4. Gently wrap the fibres around the ember.
5. Wave the Tinder Bundle in the air, or gently blow on it until it starts to produce a thick greenish smoke.
6. Give it a few hard short puffs of air and it will burst into flames.
7. Place burning Tinder Bundle into a previously prepared Fire Lay and hey presto you have a nicely burning camp fire.

Amadou Tinder

Amadou is made from the Horse’s Hoof Fungus, which has a fine, velvety layer resembling suede leather. This suede-like trama layer is sandwiched between a tough nut-like, outer, layer called the Cuticle and the pores, which are thousands of tiny tubes all packed together. The Horse’s Hoof Fungus is mainly found on dead trees such as the Birch and Beech, and it resembles a horse’s hoof – hence its common name. Amadou is very hard to source, and even more difficult to make well.

Amadou was used by our ancient forefathers because it makes excellent tinder able to catch even the vaguest of sparks, it is probably one of the best tinder that can be found in nature. It is has a beautiful velvet feel and is as resilient as suede leather and can be stored indefinitely. Amadou has been used for fire-making for thousands of years, and would have been found in virtually every travellers tinder box because of its great reliability.

Once your Amadou has caught a spark, it will begin to glow and gently smoke. This newly formed ember is very hard to extinguish since it burns so INCREDIBLY HOT. Any wind or breeze that blows on it will cause it to get even hotter!

Once the ember has become established, to your satisfaction, you have more than ample time to place the Amadou ember into the centre of a previously prepared tinder bundle – and then blown into a flame. Whilst Amadou burns very hot it burns at a steady and slow pace; a small piece, about the size of your thumb nail will burn for a good minute or so. Just a tip but we wrap our Amadou around the flint to protect not only the leather from sharp edges but also our fingers when taking the flint out. It is best to tip the contents of the pouch into the palm of your hand rather then try and reach into the pouch itself, flint is very sharp!

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