Bronko, my frontier .36 uses 3/4" rocks.

Everyone told me the same thing MD so when I ordered flints a long time ago, I ordered me some of the French Amber flints. They had an impressive long spark to them, but I really don't think they lasted any longer then a Black English Flint. Are finding a longer life in them?

Also being double the price of a Thomas Fuller Black English Flint, and never really having trouble with the spark from a Tom Fuller, I kind of figured you're getting twice the flint for the same price.

But again the five of them I purchased did throw a nice long spark, and seemed to work perfect in my Lyman Trade Rifle.

I'm on board with that Semi...

BPS

French amber flints dont fall apart and chip like the black english flints do for me. Ive installed them in lyman guns and they'd shatter a chunk out of them. Not my favorites. Plus, a lot that I ordered did not have a flat top, but a nice pointy top to try and vice down on in the jaws.

Seems to me that would be the fault of the knapper and not the flint. We shall see when I get my order in

Yes I get a few of the humpback black english flints. But with a channel lock and a dremel tool with a muzzy wheel, I can shape them to fit so sweet in the jaws of my rifles, and then they never move.

I agree Bronco, that humpback is the fault of the knapper. Its funny that MD felt the back english chipped off in chunks sometimes, because that is the one thing I remember the french flint doing. It was like the second strike on the frizzen and the entire side just broke. I remember it because I cursed the flint ... something about cheap what ever for the price.

Dave...

Was that some kind of magic wheel you used on your Dremel? I used to take flints in to work and shape them on a special wheel that was made for sharpening tungsten carbide tooling and even that was no walk in the park, flint is some pretty darn hard stuff!

BPS

Muzzy ... I swear I am getting as bad as my father for memory. Mizzy Wheels not Muzzy Wheels. Sorry ....

http://www.armstrongtoolsupply.com/a...zy-wheels.html

This is not the site where I purchased mine. And actually mine are much thicker then these shown. But it gives you an idea. A lot of Mizzy Wheels are used in jewelry making too.


This is more like what I got. They fit my Dremel Tool and they will take the hump off a flint in seconds. And they don't seem to heat up. I actually take the hump down so that the jaw of the lock will fit the channel I cut off. Then the flint don't slide around.

Well now that is a good thing to know. Boy I guess it's true - you learn something new every day.
Trouble is, these days I may learn it today and forget it tomorrow. And probably a lot of the new things I am learning I may have known 20 years ago!