Outdoor Element's Pen-metheus Fire-Starting Pen
The Pen-metheus pen takes its name from Prometheus, the Titan who stole fire from the gods, and from founder Mike Mojica's own Native American name, Bodaway, meaning "Fire-Maker." Outdoor Element's latest tool looks like an ordinary aluminum ballpoint at first, hard-anodized aircraft-grade 6061-T6 in one of three finishes: black, gunmetal gray, or safety orange. Pull the cap and it functions as you'd expect. Twist the lower body, though, and a replaceable ferro rod slides free; thread the cap onto that tube and it becomes an extended striker, long enough to grip and swing properly. Unscrew the very tip of the cap and a rolled length of cotton tinder waits inside, ready to catch the spark thrown off by a hardened striker plate built into the pocket clip. O-rings seal both the tinder and ferro compartments against moisture, and glow in the dark alongside reflective panels on the cap, so the pen can be found after sunset. At 1.6 ounces, it stores easily tucked into a shirt pocket. Outdoor Element's Kickstarter campaign blew past its $3,200 funding goal and has now raised more than six times that amount, still counting. The pen that starts fires is, fittingly, living up to its name.
