Description
Make upwards of 20,000 fires from one GobSpark™!
- NEW!!! Your choice of color: Safety Orange, Olive Drab (OD) Green, Black, OR our newest color just in for the 2023 holiday season: GLOW (in the dark)!
- Matching Paracord lanyard is included
- Optional Magnesium Tinder Rod (1/2" x 3") add-on!
Invented by FireSteel.com to maximize your grip on this large FireSteel, you'll get the biggest most robust gobs of sparks you have ever seen from a FireSteel.
If the ability to make fires is important to you, this is the FireSteel to get.
People are calling our GobSpark Armageddon "the best firesteel in the world".
But don't take our word for it: read the reviews below and decide for yourself.
It's not "just a firesteel". It's a fire-making system.
The GobSpark Armageddon FireSteel starts with an ulta-unique and proprietary FireSteel handle attached to a big world-famous FireSteel.com Armageddon 3.0 FireSteel.
But there is much more:
- A BIG, ROBUST firesteel on a Robust Handle - the firesteel is a full 3/8ths-inch in diameter and 3-inches long
- An innovative handle designed for the firmest grip - even when your hands are cold or wearing gloves.
The included FireSteel.com Palm Scraper completes your kit:
- The innovative Palm Scraper™ handle with an ultra-hardened alloy blade - rave reviews for the shower of sparks it creates when applied to the GobSpark. Grasp the Palm Scraper handle in the palm of your hand or glove for a great grip even when wearing gloves or your hands are numb from the cold.
Easy to Use with Gloved or Cold Hands
Imagine trying to start a fire with hands numbed from the cold or while wearing gloves. A small blocky firesteel handle may be very difficult to hold onto.
But using a GobSpark™ Armageddon and Palm Scraper presents no problem, even with gloved hands.
I KNOW these work because I use them myself in the Great North Woods, where winter temperatures routinely dip to minus twenty degrees and lower. No need to remove my gloves to light my fire! My hands remain toasty warm inside my mittens.
In fact, if the GobSpark Armageddon didn't work, I'd be dead. How's that for product testing?
Easy to Aim Your Sparks onto the Tinder
To use this special FireSteel Handle (see video below as well as the pictures)
- Place the handle in the palm of your hand so that the firesteel lays between your index and middle fingers.
- Position your hand palm-down and place the FireSteel Rod next to your tinder.
- While holding the firesteel handle tightly, scrape the FireSteel rod hard and fast in one fluid motion
This will produce a massive shower of white hot 5500 degree F sparks aimed directly at your tinder.
The special shape of the handle allows for creative attachment to your belt or gear.
The FireSteel Palm Scraper™
This great piece of FireSteel.com gear securely snaps onto your GobSpark Armageddon FireSteel, serving double purpose as a protective case. The rectangular shape fits snugly into the palm of your hand or glove, so that you can scrape sparks from your firesteel even with heavy gloves on your hands or when your fingers are so cold you can hardly move them - potentially a life saver when you are freezing cold or wet from an overturned boat etc.
If you already own any one of our FireSteel.com Firesteel and just want the convenience of a Palm Scraper, you can purchase the Palm Scraper separately.
Here is one of our favorite testimonies that really sums it all up. Posted by SteveG on Mar 21st 2015
"As close to perfection as I've seen in a ferro rod system"
"Nothing compares to these. The real test, with gloves on, half frozen hands, shivering, and in the dark...the Gob Spark is still easy to use and always gets the job done. Typically one strike = fire (if you have done your job and prepared your tinder, of course) Commercial tinder, improvised tinder, even slightly damp tinder, they all light with ease. The big, long lasting sparks are essential for damp, cold environments.
I've demonstrated the Gob Spark in full, brilliant sunlight and still get a "WOW!" from those that see it in action. Gob Spark is the name and giant gobs of sparks are what you get.
But a better testament to just how good this product is: I grab it first, before the Bic and before the matches. It's just that damn good.
I really can't tell how long it will last. I've struck sparks with it several hundred times and it barely shows wear. Sure there are bright streaks and a little flattening of the rounded profile, but that amounts to negligible wear so far. It will last many years for me and probably a lifetime for most.
It is big and the handle makes it bulky, but when your hands are stiff from cold and you are shivering and unsteady, the large handles on the Gob Spark and it's striker make fire starting a simple task instead of a chore.
This is the best of the best." (Thank you, Steve. You've expressed exactly why I invented the GobSpark! - Ron.)
GobSpark Armageddon™ Specifications
- GobSpark Armageddon with handle by itself:
- 4-1/2 inches long (114mm)
- weight: 1.7 ounces (48 grams)
- GobSpark Armageddon with clicked on Palm Scraper:
- 5 inches long (127mm)
- weight: 2.53 ounces (71.94 grams)
- With Optional Magnesium Tinder rod (1/2" x 3")
- Weight: 3.12 ounces (88.54 grams)
Related FireSteel Products
* GobSpark, GobSpark Armageddon, Palm Scraper, Armageddon FireSteel and FireSteel Armageddon are trademarks of FireSteel.com.
Still not convinced? Check out just a few of the many reviews our happy customers have posted to YouTube demonstrating our products. Get your FireSteel from THE name in FireSteel: FireSteel.com!
589 Reviews
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Will Last you a Lifetime!
This is one of the best firestarters! The 1st time I took my grandson camping, I sparked the cottonball 1st time no problem! The next morning I started the campfire 1st time again. How could you miss! I LOVE IT I will always have one of these whenever I go hunting or camping. Thx for making a GREAT product!
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Recommended by a friend
..in the Marine Corps. He is a Marine Corps survival expert and he is dead on about this firesteel. This is the BEST firesteel you can get, no doubt about it. I took this baby out of the package, gave it a couple of strikes with the attached firesteel striker and WAMMO, big hot sparks that popped around inside the kitchen sink (good thing I didn't aim it at the hardwood floor!). This thing will light your fires like no tomorrow. I've been using mine while practicing lighting various materials outside in the yard for an hour and the rod hardly looks depleted. There must be 10,000 fires in it at least. My take is you'd have to be foolish not to get this firesteel. It is the best out there. good job Ron and the guys at FireSteel.com.
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Works Without Fail
Since I got my firesteel I have been out trying it out. As you promised it works with out fail. I have used cotton balls, jute twine, steel wool and natural tinders. Your firesteels will get your fire started without fail. I have enclosed a picture of a fire that I started using natural tinders. I soon will be getting more of your great product.
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Gobspark Armageddon versus Swedish Firesteel
I thought I liked the Swedish Firesteels I was using until I tested the Gobspark FireSteel.com FireSteel I just purchased. No contest. The Gobspark will light tinders like oak leaves and wads of paper that the other firesteels fail to light. I'm looking forward to re-testing the potential tinders out in the woods that wouldn't light before I got Gobspark Armageddon.
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Top Notch
A top notch product from a top notch company. Gobspark is amazing. Would HIGHLY recommend. Thanks Ron!
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Super Fast Shipping
Thanks for the incredibly fast shipment. I've ordered the firesteel Gobspark Armageddon on September 3d and already received it September 7th, here in the netherlands! Wow! And look at those huge sparks, great stuff! Kind regards, Jaap
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Incredible Sparks
I just had to email you Sir because I am amazed at the Firesteel that you shipped out to me. No wonder the armed forces use Firesteel.com Firesteels. They are strong, durable, and work just like the videos show. Thanks again and I will be sure to buy more Firesteels from you Sir. I am another truly satisfied customer. I mean this Firesteel.com Firesteel is like nothing out there, I have seen many similar products and NONE of them can come close to my Firesteel.com Firesteel. The sparks are incredible. I turned off the light in my bathroom because I wanted to see just how bright the giant sparks can get. I did not want to burn up my carpet so I tried it in the bathroom and I kid you not, the room was almost completely lit up, (and I have a big bathroom by the way) when I scraped my Firesteel with the special scraper you sent it with it. The scraper is extraordinary. It just works like magic when I slide down my Firesteel with the scraper and all of those chunks of super hot sparks fly out with such ease. It is absolutely the best fire starting product out there hands down. I know I can survive out in the wilderness with my Firesteel.com Firesteel. I extremely recommend these firesteels to anyone whom likes to go camping, hiking, biking, or the average joe that likes to barbecue and start a fire in a cool way. I ordered the Gob Spark Armageddon with lanyard and scraper and i believe it will last me a long time and I know that I will not be caught off guard when I need to start a fire in a survival situation.
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Best FireSteel bar NONE
Swedish FireSteels suck compared to these! Not only is the handle BETTER on this firesteel, the firesteel gives much bigger sparks, more easy. PLus the firesteel is bigger AND... it costs less. A no brainer. Buy these firesteels you will be glad you did.
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Beats EVERTHING Else out There
Why pay twice as much for a Swedish Firesteel? These FireSteel.com firesteels give bigger sparks more easily, and at half the price.