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Alan, folks have been buying flint since time began!

Good tool making flint was a #1 trade item between the Indian tribes with obsidian from the Rocky mountains a high value good. The novoclite...

When I lived down in Tennessee we only had one rock. It was one big single chunk of limestone that ran from Knoxville to just west of Nashville, 6" under the ground.

No kidding, we used to have...

Twig, you are in a flint wasteland in SC. The only natural stone you are going to find will be some low grade chert. Arrow point hunters in your area are often astounded at where the Indians...

All of that work on the file might have drawn the temper from the steel. Especially if you managed to drill a hole in it. That is generally impossible without annealing the file or a specialized...

If I had been able to sell fire steels for that kind of money I would still have a forge working in the back yard!

One class I taught I furnished with fire kits made from the materials already...