Why take a brand new ferro rod, scrape it several times off into the air, and when you get down to the sparks, so to speak, THEN try to ignite tinder? Stop wasting those first scrapings. No, they're not going to ignite at first, but if you'll pile them up in your tinder bundle they will provide tremendous heat when a strike that does contain sparks finds them.
In my first ignition, please notice that it took 3 strikes or scrapings of the ferro rod to get ignition. The first 2 scrapes did not produce sparks probably because of oxidation on the outside of the ferro rod. Think about this though, there's no oxidation on the back side of these scrapings. They will ignite when finally hit by a spark. Watch closely and that's what you'll see in my first ignition... the pile from 2 unburn scrapings being ignited by that 3rd scraping and manifested by an intense afterburn.
This video was going to be about something completely different until I noticed that "afterburn" and changed the focus. Originally, I wanted you to comment about, How often do you practice fire making? every day like me? once a week? once a month? Please, still do comment.
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