the mummy match

[Backyard Bushcraft]

hi everyone! after much messing round with matches i think i have invented a new breed of super match! ive looked round on the net and cant find anyone whos tried anything like it! i camm it THE MUMMY MATCH as it looks like a little mummy! basically you take a standard math get some cotton wool and fluff it out then wrap it around the match leaving the head exposed. now ive then tried coating it in vaseline with works ace giving a really nice hot long burning flame, and also ive coated it in vaseline and then wax over the top of that. it was left in the bottom of a glass of water over night and it lit first time (bit of a shakey start) has anyone ever tried this or heard of it been done? if not i'm a genius!!!!!
jamie

 

[ArkAngel]

Sounds very interesting.

Got any pictures of it?

 

[Backyard Bushcraft]

i am working on the old picture part! i do belive the missus has half inched my camera (sitting in bedroom which is now torn apart in search of camera)

 

[g4ghb]

Kinda - well it wasn't me it was a fellow Scoutleader - seem to remember him calling it a self lighting match!?


It was essentially a match wrapped with a strip of kitchen paper and soaked in candle wax if I remember correctly. Worked very well too and the Scouts had a ball making them as a basis of PSK's

 

[OldBaldGuy]

I did something similar once. Took a regular strike anywhere kitchen match and wrapped a double layer of waxed linen thread (from my leatherworking stuff) around the shaft of the match below the head. Then coated the entire match with fingernail polish (color makes no difference). The polish does a pretty good job of waterproofing the match, and the thread makes the match burn much longer. Then I got a little crazy and pulled the bullet from a .22 LR round, and mixed some of the powder with the nail polish. Not worth the trouble,altho it did sparkle and fizz a lot. And of course if you did the tread thing with an already waterproof match you would be ahead of the game...