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I wanted something small- really small- small enough to slip into a wallet, not intended as a primary fire source, but something you’d have
here’s what I came up with
the hardest part was finding a suitable container, finally found a media card holder that was just the right size (~ 2 1/4 x 3 1/4″ and about 0.22″ thick)
it’s has a small (3/20 x 2″) mini firesteel http://firesteel.com/products/FireSteel-Mini.html, three firestraws loaded w/ pjcb, a small section of a hack saw blade for a scraper and ~ 10″ of duct tape- the duct tape keeps your tinder put in case of wind and once it gets going it burns nicely as well
[img width=640 height=480]http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j304/BIGSKYWRX/fkitcontents.jpg[/img]
packed
[img width=640 height=480]http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j304/BIGSKYWRX/fkitbottom.jpg[/img]
[img width=640 height=480]http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j304/BIGSKYWRX/fkittop.jpg[/img]
my wife was a little skeptical (I was a little myself) so we went for a little walk, brushed some snow off a stump, put a layer of bigger twigs down for a base, found some dandy inner bark peelings a squirrel had dropped
) and gathered some small twigs. I opened one of the firestraws and carefully fluffed the contents up as much as possible. with my wife watching (skeptically 
) I scraped the steel once, twice and then – FIRE, surprised myself a little I must admit,
pulled the inner bark peelings around the burning pjcbs and had a nice little fire going[img width=640 height=480]http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j304/BIGSKYWRX/fkitinuse.jpg[/img]
again this was intended as a backup to a backup (to a backup?), but it’s comforting that I always have it on my person and that in a pinch it will work
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