- If indeed this is able to produce surely a shower of sparks, it is not clear to light a fire with everything !! The material that you go fire is essential, it must be very fine, very dry, very flammable (grass very fine and very dry, cottony fluff of reed work very well). Forget twigs, paper, small chips, etc ... This requires a large number of consecutive sparks to heat the material sufficiently to ignite. The "3000" uses and instead become 300 ... and use very galley ...
- It always produces sparks being wet, but if your grass to ignite wet, or if you do it in the rain, then there remember ...
- The scraper is not more practical, a knife blade back is much easier to use. However, it includes an emergency whistle that could be helpful.
Conclusion: to light a gas stove that's fine, at least we do not burn your fingers. To start a fire, nothing replaces a single BIC lighter! To keep it dry out or you will have many more opportunities to do the job. The firesteel is really backup.
