Brimstone Matches and Next Fire Mentality

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with something lights Outfitters in the Pathfinder school and what we're going to discuss this morning are brimstone or sulfur matches also known as spunks and spunk swore and match made with only sulfur and a small sliver of wood and they would not Suffolk night like a strike-anywhere match they didn't have that technology at the time spokes were used but to use the chemical sulfur in a liquefied state to coat the end of a stick so that it could be coaxed into flame to make a match with tinder that was ignited with a flint and steel so we use a charring tin just like we didn't we lit the candle itself from the char except instead of melting candle wax to the char to bring the whole thing to flame we're going to try to bring the spunk to flame by igniting the sulfur on the end of the match now I've done a little bit of research on this and there are a couple good videos on YouTube Keith Burgess probably has the most well known video on making spunks it's a simple process but it can be dangerous mold and sulfur will stick to your skin and continue to burn it until you can get it off so you've got to be careful with what you're doing while you're making spunks but it's a simple process now the one thing I'm going to try to do to improve this process from what I've researched is they used splinters of wood to make their spokes just small slivers of highly combustible dry woods I'm going to try to make my spokes from fat wood so that once I get ignition that SAP in the pine is going to make it burn that much faster and that much hotter that gives me another resource within my fire kit or in my tent or wherever I'm having to light fire or get an ignition where there's the lighted candle or to make a campfire it gives me another way to effect that ignition with something called the spunk stay with me we'll get started now when you're making these spokes or brimstone matches less is usually more we don't want to over apply the sulfur to the end of this stick you just want a good coating on that and then you can reapply after it dries a little bit if you don't think you got enough okay so the process of making spunks is fairly simplistic you need sulfur and I have some sulfur powder I've sulfur in this can then you need your stick and in this case I've taken some sliver and a fat one and split them down into small sticks or matches like this then I'm going to use as my spunk then we're going to need something that we can melt our sulfur in order liquefy it in and I'm going to use this forged spoon ladle for that and I'm just going to hold it over my candle so really what I'm doing here is I'm having next fire mentality I've got a fire in my candle here and I can use that fire along with sulfur and a stick to help affect my next fire because it will give me more longevity than simple char cloth because it will give me actual burning fuel materials once the spunk has ignited so now we've made our spunk so we've let them dry over here off to the side and now we're going to ignite this candle with a spunk and to do that we're going to light the char in a charring 10 just like we would if we were going to light a candle with our chart in only so we'll come in here and get our flint and steel kit out just like we did when we lift the candle and we will throw some sparks down into our 10 to ignite some charred material and once we get some of that good hot now we come in with our spunk and we add it to the mix once we have our spunk on fire we can set our chart n aside cover it you see now I have plenty of time because I have a burning match I have now effectively used one fire to help create my next fire and if that's all I need I can put this out and recreate another spunk from the same piece of material if I chose to do that but if I were using this for a fire I can take advantage of the longevity of the spat wood burning let's start a larger fire as well okay folks while I'm Dave Canberra with Pathfinder school and self-reliance out there I appreciate join me for another video today real quick on fire making and how to create your next fire or help create your next fire from your first fire and I think it's very important for us to understand that next fire mentality and spunks or brimstone or sulfur matches are one way to help you affect the next fire I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for everything you do for school for our family for our business follow our sponsors instructors affiliates and Friends I'll be back with another video as soon as I can thanks guys