Hickory Fire Piston

Absolutely the best survival/camping gadget I’ve ever bought. Works perfectly, clear instructions and it got here fast. I’m very satisfied and impressed!!!

Great little tool that I though about making myself, but this made it easy to focus on other things. Worked the first time out of the box and the instructions are crystal clear. I also appreciated the extra info on how to make additional char cloth.

It works well with the char cloth it came with. Works even better with my own I made. That and a new o-ring. The one it shipped with on it had a nick in it and would not build pressure well enough. It's better than average, but I don't think it quite reaches 5-star status.

It's fairly basal as well as heavy duty, have only been able to get the burn cloth to get warm and smoke once for very little time. Only complaint would be the lack of a container or string setup to keep the important pieces together.

Pulled it out of the package, loaded it up and it worked first strike... 5 stars.

Works great and comes with high quality O-rings.

I have successfully started a fire with this fire piston in my kitchen, but I have removed it from my emergency kit because I have never gotten it to work in the 'wild.' I don't doubt that it could work if you spent a few months learning it's quirks (it seems extremely sensitive to char cloth and I haven't figured out why yet) it's also difficult to get the tinder to stay in the pocket and to figure out how much should be used. Also, it's difficult to dislodge the ember into your fire nest before it burns up. If you're thinking of using this as part of your emergency kit, don't. Use a ferroceramic lighter, some char cloth and a small tube for blowing. This will start a fire under poor conditions in seconds. If you are into exploring primitive skills and equipment from around the world, definitely get a fire piston and play with it a lot. They are fun!

never could get it to work consistently but it did work alot