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Yes make a good sharp edge (it doesn’t have to be so sharp it will cut you) and for a striker you could probably use a horseshoe. On post # 24 I posted instructions on how I do it.

I must be doing something wrong with the lint thing. I keep hearing everyone say how good it is but when I tried it with a magnifying glass it just burnt a hole right through it. No flame.

There’s other methods. Here’s some demonstrations by Ray Mears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaHNWaBmNJU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn9GmxWvABk&mode=related&search=
I haven’t tried the bow...

Maybe you’re not concentrating the light enough. You should hold the mag glass so that the beam of light is at its smallest and brightest point so its concentrated like a laser. If you hold the mag...

Alaska’s daylight hours were sort in the winter but we still had plenty enough to use a magnifying glass unless your thinking of the northern region of Alaska up by the Arctic Circle. but I was is...

I’m in this little box called “your computer” :D

Really? I thought they were easier then flint and steel, I can get a coal in a couple seconds with a magnifying glass but it takes longer for me with flint and steel.

True…I wouldn’t recommend it in the rainforest.

The magnifying glass doesn’t have to be that strong. Try some dried tinder fungus, you should get a good coal with that really fast and easy.

You weren’t using the right tinder. All its suppose to do is spark, that’s all it takes if you have the right tinder. Try practicing with some good char cloth, it’ll work I promises.

That’s not flint that’s magnesium flint, but both work Magnesium flint actually works better then natural flint that you fined in the wild, but with practice you should be able to use both.

Magnifying glasses work in seconds.

Magnesium flint is easy and good to have. Natural flint is just a smooth gray rock that natives made knives and arrow tips from. I’ve started fires with Natural flint but magnifying glasses and...

I think that’s magnesium flint your talking about. Have you ever tried the flint you find in mother nature?

I can if the wind isn’t blowing to hard. I did it a couple of times and used charred cloth, which works pretty good. But I’ve never don it without charred cloth. In substitute I’d try dried cattail...