[Regia-NA] Getting Sparks or Not

[J. Kim Siddorn]

If it was me, I'd listen to your explanation, hand you my kit and say

"show me" !

Here's a plan, you could always video it - I can read NTSC tapes. That
started out as a tongue-in-cheek comment, but now I think about it, that
might just solve many, many of our trans-Atlantic problems.

What do you all think?

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

"Spring in the air?"
"Spring in the air yerself !"


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lori Rael Northon" <lesseley@attbi.com>
To: <list-regia-na@lig.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 9:17 PM
Subject: [Regia-NA] Getting Sparks or Not


> Hi, All!
>
> Thanks to everyone for all the useful and helpful information about fires
> from sparks.  I'm still at the trying to get sparks stage, so I'm not
> worried about the fire part - yet.  8^)
>
> Now I have another question concerning Fire and Skills - this is directed
to
> Kim or other that know the answer.  Since you cannot get a spark from
flint
> to start a fire, does this mean you do not have your Membership Document
for
> Fire Making Skills signed off?  OR, is it signed off because you have the
> knowledge and can explain in detail to others how its suppose to be done?
I
> really want to know in relation to how we get our various Skills signed
off.
> Exactly what is the level of ability and knowledge that is expected from
an
> individual in order to have a Skill signed off?  At this point I'm not so
> interested in who signs off the Skill, but when it is signed off, what
> conditions were met.
>
> Side note, since I am trained to weld and also have some rudimentary
> Blacksmithing abilities, I should be able to make my own fire-steel - I
> hope - with my luck, it won't work.  I just didn't want to pay the silly
> price they were asking for a 25 cent piece of steel and 2 minutes worth of
> work.
>
> Lori