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In contrast to the companys copywriting, my efforts to ignite a range of dry and flammable materials with FireSteel patently failed. Making fat sparks fly off the stick was not an issue. Just scrape with striker slowly along the FireSteels replica Cartier Santos 100 w20106x8 watch length and retina-burning balls leap like a shower of stars.But getting those 3,000-degree sparks to initiate a flame? No luck at all.I tried shredded news and shaved kindling. The company sent me a package of its special MayaDust tinder, which has an 80 percent resin content and is said to be easy to light, even when wet.Nope.MayaDust in my test cradled big sparks and smoked. But it never took flame.

I next tried a chemical solution, smashing a highly-flammable hexamethylenetetramine tablet made by Esbit, a stove company. The chemical dust replica Cartier wf9001y7 watch whooshed to flame with a match. But FireSteels best sparks were still impotent.On YouTube, you can see the Swedish FireSteel in action. In short video clips, survivalists and lay campers alike scrape the rod to produce flame over fine grass kindling and fire-starting gel.

In some scenarios, I know this product works. But in my tests -- which used at-hand kindling as well as the after-market products from Esbit and Industrial Revolution -- FireSteel failed to impress. Indeed, after some coaching from a company replica cartirer Must De watch representative and then more than 300 scrapes, I was unable to produce a single useable flame.I pray the Swedish Department of Defense is giving its soldiers better training. And maybe a backup Bic lighter just in case.--Stephen Regenold writes a daily blog on outdoors gear at .