Finally! A Fire Starter for your Swiss Army Knife
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- The Kickstarter for the Tortoise Gear FireAnt and Helix Tinder ends April 8th. Add some Fire Starting Bling to your Swiss Army Knife. The FireFly (available now) replaces any 45/50MM toothpick and the FireAnt simply screws on to any model with a corkscrew.
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Super video! Thanks a lot for this video! Greetings from Switzerland!
Knew I would find you here
Whaoooo ! THE FELIX IMMLER HIMSELF!!
When your SAK video gets a thumbs up from Felix, you know you're on point.
Felix Immler Ello Felix! Just finished your tips and tricks playlist and then I was sent to this video😁
Helo from indonesia,,i made custom ,, inspired by your channel 👍
Finally the one item missing from Swiss Army knives 👍🏻
This is a legit product. I love when people/companies identify a need (no matter how obscure) and create simple yet effective solutions. Thanks for the Vid!
i would say, there must be plenty of peaple in Victorinox thinking, why we didnt thing about it?
Survival Russia recommended these many months ago, when I bought them, and they are great!
I also do a LOT of research. But you, sir, consistently introduce me to stuff I’d never seen before. Thanks much.
I must have these!
I know your comment is years back, but if you get notified i commented, what sort of research have you accumulated regarding SAK's/edc gear???
Done, just ordered six of them on kick starter!! Awesome addition to all of my Swiss Army knives.
What’s the name?
The firefly is just a brilliant idea. Thanks, Ben, for bringing it to our attention!
Awesome Firestarters and Ferro Rods! I wonder why nobody thought of that before? Those work pretty great and fit perfectly with them. Thanks for reviewing! I may have to look into these.
Actually, I did back around 2005. I emailed SAK and made a suggestion and they replied back saying that they already had the pouch and that people could add what they wanted to that. I also made a suggestion for the cork screw to be able to slide a small vial in it to keep some potassium permanganate for extreme emergency water treatment, but again they were not interested.
They also said that they felt the fire steel was too small to be of any real use and would break easily and have people wanting new ones and making claims. I said that's easy to fix, just put in the instructions that you MUST use the knife to cut a small twig and make a flat spot on twig to lay the fire steel on for support BEFORE striking...no magic, but again, they shot me down.
I gave up, but I'm even happier an AMERICAN brought this to market and I hope they see it....now they'll probably copy it.
@@wjf213 I am not sure if it was related to anything you or someone with the current company had done, but IIRC I saw some hand made versions that were similar to the Fireant. I have the Firefly but since I always have my BSA Hot-Spark on my keychain have never actually substituted the toothpick. I might give up my mini screwdriver for the FireAnt. Even if I don't, I love the idea of the helix tinder. That would work with the mini screwdriver just fine and provide some quick emergency tinder if I needed to use my hot-spark.
I came back to add, there is a guy that does a lot of videos on using and/or modifying Swiss Army Knives. I saw one recently where he pointed out that "plus scales" actually have an extra channel that can be opened for use. That would be a perfect place to keep the displaced toothpick or the Firefly. He went on to show how to shorten the toothpick and use it to make the channel into a container for something vital, such as a needle (IIRC) but one could stop sooner and use the modification.
There's a tiny hole under the corkscrew where you can install a straight pin...
Because you put a regular one on the key chain ring
Purchased the short/long kit a while back and very pleased. Very expensive at $40 on Amazon for 8 flints. However, glad I have this with me when hiking/camping without packing a separate larger fire starter. Still on the first striker stick and have used it to start 8 fires and still have plenty of fire steel left. I've found the saw back to work best like your video demonstrates. Great product.
This is great because I take my Swiss every where. No one thinks wait I need to bring flint and tinder but someone like me who uses a Swiss Army for just about everything this just make my Swiss even better. Again 🙏
Very cool .....
I made a primitive one 20 years ago for a champion using a flint , a small empty BIC pen tube ( that holds ink ) it tucks under the pliers and I used a flint wheel kept permanently on the key ring to strike .
Heat the tube (match length)slide the flint into it . Strike on the file actually works better using the metal saw edge ..
But this product is even better as the tooth pic barely gets used love the fact the tinder has wax to make it burn for a whole min... 👍
Bloody Brilliant Idea - I use the hiker model as my EDC.
Cost: one reason for the cost is that the quality of the rod is very high, meaning that it produces very hot sparks very easily.
Felix Immler, of Victorinox fame, has a UA-cam video showing how he lights over 100 fires with the Firefly! Check it out!
Another tinder idea is cotton make-up pads and Covid style hand sanitiser (Gel, not liquid). Just rub a blob of gel into a pad and hit it with a spark, and it goes up instantly!
Keep them separately in Zip-loc bags, and use one at a time when needed. Don't pre-make them up, as the alcohol evaporates very quickly.
Cheers mate!
Great video, I’m not normally a SAK guy but just got a huntsman so going to start carrying it to see how I get on with it. We go camping and day hiking a fair bit always making fires and this would be a great addition.
Thanks for your review.
Thanks Tim.
ive been aware of these since they were first released. your video made me buy a set.
I have fire ant and love it. Great product and great match up for the SAK
Tortoise gear is made in my valley. Just shared with my son and a friend. Ready to pursue new adventures.
Agreed on making you want to carry a sak more. It actually made me order a camper to replace one I lost who knows how many years ago, and now it's part of my daily carry with a firefly and helix tinder. They also made tinder that's windproof, so even better.
Already have one and it works amazingly bought one for my son and four grandchildren to go into their Swift Army knives that I bought them a couple years ago bought this last year to put in them
I got both on all my SAKs. I love stuff like this.
Cool idea!
I have an EDC with a fire steel. but I also regularly carry a SAK in a leather pouch on my belt. So I ordered a few of these.
Thanks for the info👍
That’s actually pretty awesome
I had seen the firefly toothpick replacement before but I never thought it would work and that it would snap easily but by your vid, it actually looks pretty strong.
Wow. Makes an great edc even better! Nice job.
The wire stripper on the cap lifter works to strike the "toothpick" ferro rod too.
I’ve had the firefly for months. Awesome addition to my Rangergrip SAK
I bought a 3-pack of the Fire Ant after watching this video !
That is a winner, for sure. I’ll get one as soon as possible.
Thanks for the review and thanks for letting us know about the resolution issue.
That's awesome! Finally someone put it in production 🙌
Nice that's awesome I like the cork screw one and the fire tender super smart
I currently have the fire fly in all my SAKs and even though I see no value in the fire ant rod because of it's size and because I have the eye glasses screwdriver in the same spot. I do look forward to being able to get some of the helix tinder to put along with the mini screwdriver.
Ben,I upgraded my Ruike ld31 with the larger fr. I have tweezers on my swak camper,I carry both and love having multiple options.
Great video
There’s room ‘under’ the saw blade to place a thin ferro rod.
Good idea!👍
There's quite a bit of room there. I put a needle with some thread wrapped around it. I believe I saw that on a Felix Immler video. With the right amount of thread it fits perfectly down between the spacers.
@@clange50 My Swiss Champ has room under the Philips screwdriver. I keep a ferro rod in that space.
These are pretty cool! I just got my Victorinox Mountaineer in the mail. I may have to get some of these upgrades.
Those toothpicks are nothing new, have being around for some year. The cork one, yes, i believe you make the first review of it :)
Super Cool for Sure! I'll be looking into getting some of these for both my kit SAKs and my EDC One Hand Trekker.
Very cool. Will definitely have to get one for my SAK! Thanks for the review!
Some innovative stuff. I'd prefer to lose the tweezers (most first aid kits include them) rather than remove the mini screw driver from the corkscrew, as the mini screw driver is too handy to do away with.
Very cool products. You did a great job finding them.
Great idea. Thank you for showing it to us, Ben
Great innovative product. A must have item to round out your Swizz Army Knife capabilities.
Ben, thanks for the review, these are amazing products for the Swiss army knife
That Amazing!!! Definitely order some of these! Thanks for sharing
That's so clever! I love the innovation!
Excellent product sir, didn't expected this.
Ben that is a sweet add on definitely makes it more functional good find 🤙🏻 cool new logo too
Great take on these products, Ben. Thanks!
Gracias por compartir tus experiencias y demostraciones de estas herramientas y accesorios. 👍👍👍
Cool throw them both on there as a back up to the back up good deal in my book
Pretty cool idea. Definitely going to have to check those out.
Just ordered a 3 pack of the fire ants, great idea hands down 👍
Dude... that’s freaking awesome!!!
Great show, great choice of products! Very cool!
That's awesome, I have several models of Swiss Army knives that I could use these. Thanks for the info!
great for my Swiss Army CHAMPS,tnx
I have too much respect for the mini screwdriver to ditch it.
That's how I freakin' open my large blade if my hands are wet.
This is the balls! Thx for the info!
I love this, gotta see if I can get me one
That is awesome! I had never heard of these products before, thanks for making this video!
Jason Young the fire ant is still on kickstarter for $16 and get a set of 3.
excellent bit of gear, I'm in the UK so deffo be ordering, thx for the vid dude
Martin Orchard currently on kickstarter ships worldwide in July for $16 set of 3
Add vaseline and last longer. Just found that out and with this will last even longer awsome
that's great ,,, now need to buy it that is fantastic Thanks
Cotton is fairly easy to light up...
Can those thin Ferro rods start a fire in the woods?
Love it! That's going on my Hiker.
That thing is pretty sweet!
Very very engenious. Thank you.
Sweet, I Thought I recognized the name, Lars from survival russia showed the ones that replace the toothpick a couple of years ago, but have been doing some innovating, cause those two news one that screw on to the corkscrew are pretty neat.
Thanks for showing Ben.
Brilliant, need to get myself some of these
Hi have a fire fly in every Swiss Army knife I own and they are awesome I recently got some of the tinder ones also and they seem to be holding up well in my pocket of my EDC so far we’ll see overtime how they hold up in their
I purchased a cadet a locks from Swiss Bianco. It has a built in fire steel on the backside. A bit expensive but very interesting knife.
Very good review. Thank you.
That is Awesome, wish I could get a few Firefly's for my Hiker and Fieldmaster, but being in Australia, it seems almost impossible.
I'll keep trying though...Cheers
The Swiss are on their A game.
I just put a 1/2 inch by 3 inch ferro rod on the key ring
One fire fly plus two or three fire starters in the corkscrew.
Very nice good job finding that
Hahahahahahahaha. I made the corkscrew one ages ago and got a provisional patent on it. I've even sent the drawings and product details to Victorinox by email. To their D&P engineer and they just let it go through lack of interest. i called mine The Swiss Nano Spark.
Steve Cranna Awesome
You can go with both you know
Great video Ben.
I already have the Firefly and I’m already sold on its capabilities for quite a while now. It also glows for a really long time.
The fire ant looks great for the corkscrew portion of the SAK. I like that it glows as well.
I noticed the Helix tinder outer coating seems to be crumbling into little pieces every time you handle it which I would have concerns about it as it rubs in the pocket.
What an awesome product! This was one swell video :)
I would avoid the little corkscrew model as it will break very easy, it doesn't take a lot of effort to break it either. The toothpick models work very well. And in an emergency don't worry about using your blade to strike it.
Bought the fire ant and the fire steel came loose from the plastic corkscrew piece . Good idea but they are too expensive for what it is in my opinion .
The video recommends using the back of the saw. What about the bottle opener?
Really good video
Awesome accessories 👍
This is nice, but I'd rather have a diamond honing rod for the knife blade instead of a sparker.
If you have a swiss champ which one would you get? (MM size)?
I have a SAK Champ (91mm) and the Fire Ant -- including the fire tinder -- fits perfectly. I use a tiny piece of the tinder and can make 8 fires with 1 tinder. I first fluff up the end of the tinder then clip it off from the main piece with the scissors. I've even dipped the tinder into water first, wiped it off on my pants then fluffed it up. Still works great.
The back edge of the saw and the file both have a sharp square shape. I prefer using the back of the file. I hold the tinder down with the file, tilt it over a little bit towards the tinder. Then I place the Fire Ant against it vertically (fairly tightly) and pull up. Doing it that way seems to put the least amount of stress on the Fire Ant while getting the most spark on the tinder.
This is the best upgrade I've ever seen for a Swiss Army Knife. They're kind of pricey (I think) but waaaay worth it. I wouldn't think of not having it on my knife. Hope this helps.
Just sane... :^) Saint
Can it fit into the pen slot on the swiss champ? I'm guessing the fit won't be snug enough.
Wow great my brother
Awesome!
Anyone have any idea how long these last?? How many strikes you get from them? Cheers! Fab video!!
Enough for many fires if your tinder is setup right.
Re:Fire Ant]I want to know if the fireant fire starter which is placed in the corksscrew,have the [-]screwdriver in the tip?
Great demo for these. Also, you mentioned they were $4 ?! I missed out on that deal, they start out at $20 on their website. I wonder how many sparks/ strikes you get from each little rod
I'm getting this for sure. Thanks for sharing.. When's live video coming out again. You and the family stay safe during these times.
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Just picked up a 4 pack for the large swiss army knives. Also picked up a Victorinox Forester in black from Russia to go with it lol.
from where did you busy
Awesome, but I thought firefly was when you struck a kitchen match on your zipper. :)
How many times we can use the fire starter? And which type of sak u use?
where did you get the 4-package? i’ve only seen it in the large package (i believe 25 fireflies; per pack
I so need this. I’m in the UK & only allowed a Swiss Army knife as edc. Hope I can get one.