Char cloth

[ridjrunr]

Thank you Keith posting all you have! My checking in here is sporatic at times and am not shore how I missed this. Lots of food for thought there. Are you familiar with chaga?

[Le Loup]

Thank you Keith posting all you have! My checking in here is sporatic at times and am not shore how I missed this. Lots of food for thought there. Are you familiar with chaga?

Yes I know of it but have not come across it where I live. Plenty of other plant tinders available here though, some that are also available overseas.
Thank you for the feedback.
Keith.

[Ouchigan72]

If one uses an altoids tin. No holes are needed in it. The lid does not seal 100% -n- allows gases to escape without popping the top. I put the altoid tin into a larger tin that does seal after charring to cool. This has produced great char cloth

[Le Loup]

No "charcloth" Flint & Steel Fire Lighting.
Keith.

[Le Loup]

Personally I prefer to make tinder the traditional way, the original way, rather than using modern methods. Using modern methods to make fire & prepare tinder to me seems to defeat the whole object of using flint & steel in the first place. Rather like using modern wads in a smoothbore or using an inline muzzle-loader.
Keith.

[amm1851]

Rather like using modern wads in a smoothbore or using an inline muzzle-loader.
Keith.

That's quite the leap there.  

[Le Loup]

Rather like using modern wads in a smoothbore or using an inline muzzle-loader.
Keith.

That's quite the leap there.  

For a traditional Muzzleloader? I think not. Or am I on the wrong forum?
Keith.

[rollingb]

Rather like using modern wads in a smoothbore or using an inline muzzle-loader.
Keith.

That's quite the leap there.  :rt th  

[amm1851]

Rather like using modern wads in a smoothbore or using an inline muzzle-loader.
Keith.

That's quite the leap there.  

For a traditional Muzzleloader? I think not. Or am I on the wrong forum?
Keith.

Luckily for me, I don't have to live up to your standards on this ... or anything else. But if you want to set yourself up as the judge of everything to do with traditional muzzleloaders,  then yes, you might be on the wrong forum.

[rollingb]

While a lot of us find it interesting how traditional char cloth was made, this is the Traditional Muzzleloading forum.
If we limited our guests and TMA members to using ONLY traditional methods of everything even remotely related to traditional muzzleloading we'd probably only have very few folks posting on many of the forums we have here.
As with many things related to traditional muzzleloading, the TMA doesn't care if you cast your round balls using an electric melting pot, propane stove, or a campfire. (the same principle goes for making char cloth)

This topic WILL get locked if this thread deteriorates any further.  

[amm1851]

I apologize for my part in this.  An appearance by the pc police always gets my dander up.

[Le Loup]

So I am on the wrong forum. Understood.
Keith.