Tack Cloth Fire Starter! Each sheet is 18 inches wide by 36 inches long. Small squares can be cut from each sheet, making multiple fire starters! Each sheet of tack cloth is individually packaged.

There are a hundred ways to start a fire. Here at SilverFire we recommend using tack cloth. What is tack cloth?

Tack cloth is 100 percent cheese cloth impregnated with linseed oil used mainly to get dust off furniture before painting or staining. The linseed oil is tacky and sticks to the cheese cloth overall making the material very flammable. 

In a windy situation staring fire can be tricky. The best we have found is use a small square of tack cloth (cut a small square from the sheet of tack cloth) and wrap it around your fuel. Then use our Scout Fire Starter to shave magnesium into a quarter sized pile directly onto the tack cloth. Also, we recommend to shave tinder from the fire starters handle on top of magnesium shavings pile. Then scrape flint with a solid, firm scrape to ignite the material. This is a four point program, one of the following is likely to ignite: tack cloth's cotton, tack's linseed oil, or the fire starter's magnesium or tinder shavings! 

Some folks prefer to take a little pellet gel, alcohol gel and squirt in small amounts to establish the flame. Others prefer tack cloth, impregnated cotton balls, char cloth and other fire starters. The beautiful thing about tack cloth it is already made, it is inexpensive, and comes in a big sheet - allowing for multiple fire starters. 

We just find that the Scout Fire Starter paired with Tack Cloth works best!

***Note: Some establishments sell Polyester Tack Cloth which will not burn as efficiently and cleanly as Cotton Tack Cloth. Make sure the tack cloth is white when purchasing, that is a give away it is cotton and not polyester. Usually polyester tack cloth is yellow***