@buckfynn posted a link to a YT channel to a guy named Dalem Gumino. I take it he's in the tropics and is a very proficient fire maker. He's got one video where he demonstrates making fire with quartz on quartz. Another where he shows stone on bamboo fire (aka bamboo strike-a-light.)
I have argued in the past that quartz on quartz is not doable without some iron somewhere; that the spark needs to travel an air gap to hit the tinder. That's not the case, though. Unless...
Quartz on quartz fire (no steel or pyrite? No iron?)
I have argued in the past that quartz on quartz is not doable without some iron somewhere; that the spark needs to travel an air gap to hit the tinder. That's not the case, though. Unless...
Quartz on quartz fire (no steel or pyrite? No iron?)