I've read a lot about making char cloth, but all the videos I have seen involve using cotton cloth, a tin and a campingaz type camp stove. That always strikes me as quite costly, gas wise.
I thought I'd give it a go, so I cut up a pair of old jeans and put some 2"#1" strips into an Altoids tin that I'd punched a small hole into the lid with an old brass screw and a mallet.
I then chucked it on my coal fire, and et voila! Perfectly good charcloth, for zero cost - assuming you were going to make a fire anyway...
