Fire Through the Ages Bundle

Fire Through the Ages Skills and Challenges

This is your ultimate bundle to deepening relationship to fire. We go through lots of primitive fire lighting techniques as well as giving you tips for laying and lighting fires in more challenging conditions, processing and experimenting with different kinds of tinder as well as challenges and story to engage with fire. This bundle will offer you real depth. It is an absolutely excellent bundle to continue your learning journey with the element of fire.

Bundle Contents

Fire Through the Ages

Fire Safety Considerations

Tinder Overview and Principles

Tinder Tips and Techniques

How Various Tinders Burn

Percussion: Flint and Iron Pyrites

Percussion: Flint and Iron Striker

Friction: Bowdrill – How to make the kit part 1

Friction: Bowdrill – How to make the kit part 2

Friction: Bowdrill – Technique, how to burn in

Friction: Bowdrill – Technique, going for an ember

Friction: Egyptian Bowdrill

Winter Fire Tips 1 – gathering and preparing materials for successful lighting in Winter

Winter Fire Tips 2 – effective arrangments of sticks for successful lighting

Winter Fire Tips 3 – tipi fire lay

How to make Char Cloth

Story of the Gift of Fire

3 Match Fire Challenge

1 Log Fire Challenge

Burn through the String Fire Challenge

Floating Fire Challenge

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How Various Tinders Burn

Here we look at different natural materials found in a variety of landscapes that can be interchanged and used to make great tinder bundles to carry a spark into a hearty bundle of flame ready to ignite denser materials of twigs and sticks to build the heart of your fire. In all cases, the dryer the materials, the more effective they will be.

Bowdrill – Going for an Ember

This video takes you through the process of creating an ember with a bowdrill kit that has already been prepared by being burned in with a notch carved. It looks at some of the challenges that can arise and some tips to help overcome them...

Making Char Cloth

Char cloth is a valuable material to have in your bag when out and about in the woods. It can make the difference to getting your fire lit, especially on a damp day. It’s quick and easy to make on a fire with very basic equipment.