Hot Shot Fire Card: Survival Knife with Fire Starter Card

Useful

It works

I bought two, one to keep, another to experiment with. The blade came semi-sharp. Cleaned up the edge on my Work Sharp belt sharpener. The blade also has nice 90 degree spines all around to use as a scraper. The striker has a very nice burr and really scrapes wood, the magnesium bar, and the ferro bar well. I saw a review criticizing the magnesium bar, saying it won't ignite. The ferro bar is very efficient and it took a lot of strikes to get the magnesium to ignite, but it did ignite and burned hot like it should. The magnesium bar doesn't adhere to the backing after first removal. All the other tools adhered to the backing after removal multiple times. The pry bar tip is sharp, you can use it as a mini chisel. The tweezers are precise and sturdy. The saw cuts well, either for actually cutting wood, or notching. Suggestions: Apply a better knife edge at the factory (that would probably raise the cost). Users should be cautious after removing the magnesium bar the first time, it will want to fall out with gravity. Otherwise it's basically perfect.

Been looking forward to experimenting with this for some time. Still experimenting with properly sharpening the knife. Everything else works great.