[header] How to make a fire with flint and steel or quartzite and steel [title] Prepare a pile of tinder in your fire pit prepared, according to normal fire making procedure. [title] Prepare a " birds nest " of fibrous material with a piece of char cloth in the middle. [title] Get a hatchet or knife (making sure it is carbon steel, not stainless steel) and find a flint rock or quartzite rock. 
[title] Make sure the rock has a point on it. [step] Put the rock in your right hand and the hatchet in your left hand, or vice versa.