Wholesale Prices in Price Matrix, *** Kit includes 1 Spanish style "U" pattern Double Face steel striker, 1 large piece of Texas flint, char cloth and tow hemp for nesting. The kit comes in a 4" round tin for storage. You get everything here to start a fire the old fashion way. All you have to add is the kindling wood. These are replica's of the Spanish style "U" pattern Double Face strikers from the 18th Century. They throw exceptional sparks. The Spanish would attached a lanyard to them so they could wear them around their neck. The STRIKER FACE IS COMPLETLEY AROUND THE OUTSIDE OF THE "U" SHAPED STRIKER. EITHER SIDE CAN BE STRUCK. Each flint and steel striker is Hand forged by a St. Louis local blacksmith. Made from high carbon steel. Please keep in mind that these are hand forged and will have some surface rust due to the quenching process. Striker: Average length - Striker face (UP ONE SIDE AND DOWN THE OTHER: 6" length x 3/16" width. Total length of striker 3 3/8" x 1 7/8" width (from the top loops to the bottom of the "U" shape). Flint and Steel strikers are the "old fashion" way of starting fires. Long before the Lewis and Clark Era, this item was one of man's most valued possessions. When the flint is struck against the steel (or the steel against the flint) in a downward quick motion, a spark is produced. The char cloth is used to capture the spark. You want the spark to fall onto the char cloth. The charred cloth is extremely combustible. All it takes is one spark to land on this cloth and it starts glowing like the cherry on a cigarette. As you blow on the lit char cloth it starts to burn rapidly producing tremendous heat. The tinder (tow hemp) should be shred up, unraveled and formed into a nest. Once your char cloth catches a spark.... you lay the char cloth in the nest (which should have your kindling wood underneath and on top of the nest). Blow some oxygen rapidly across the char cloth and it will combust thus producing a fire. The flint and steel striker is period correct for different reenactors time periods, free-trapper craft projects and living history events revolving around reenactment events, Civil War, Boy Scouts, Rendezvous, Pirate, Renaissance, Medieval, Pow Wow, Living History and Cowboy).