Hey, thanks for the feedback and taking the time to read it, guys.

  I wasn't actually trying to start a fire, just to accomplish flame, so I wasn't too concerned about the tinder bundle. I've gotten flame with that green twine in the middle using charcloth and flint and steel, and the rest is birch bark...so I figured if I could get flame with charcloth ember, it should work with an ember from a firebow. I have no idea if it would have. Unfortunately, everything around was just saturated with water from nightly downpours and thunderstorms for several days..so I didn't really bother to try to put otgether a tinder bundle from the stuff around me. I just grabbed some birch bark off a dead tree and went with that.

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  All I can say is "Nice",  you done good.

I am in the market for a rechargeable lantern that would work for reading at night. My head lamp is not cutting it. I don't know if it is not bright enough, or if the led's  put out bad light, all I do know it is not a good reading light. I think part of the issue is the LED's themselves, it seems to me that back when headlamps and lanterns used old school bulbs the reading light was better.

Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks

That's a beauty. Congratulations.