Cool fire kit

Saw this fire kit on the new Ray Mears Series of Shows "walk about" it's one of the best little flint and steel sets I've seen. it was carried by the artist Steven King that accompanied the scottish explorer Jon McDowell Stewart the first man to lead an expedition across Australia. Interestingly it was taken as a personal memento of Australia's only astronaut on the space shuttle discovery is a descendant of
F.G.Water house the naturalist that accompanied Jon McDowell Stewart on some of his expeditions.

It consists of a steel striker, a flint in a holder and a slow match of cotton wick impregnated with saltpeter. these items are all held on their own mounting a push fit bezel for the striker is attached to a tube that holds the wick ad the flit in it holder is attached to the tube with a chain.

The hole set up is housed in cylindrical box with a push fit bezel lid, again the lid is attached to the box so it can not be lost.

I did my own drawing with the intention of making my own. Today I made the steel striker out of some scrap 01 tool steel i had in the workshop rest of the setup will follow soon.