A low tech lighter.

A completelely pointless item, in all honesty;

A lighter made from a matchbox that allows you to strike a match using only one's thumb.

Step 1: Gather your parts and plans.

You will need a old piece of wood,(the same thickness as the inside of a matchbox),
a matchbox,
sand-paper,
glue

and detailed plans.

Comments

[catboo22]

wont the wood catch fire?

[knex_mepalm]

 Its too thick

[sharlston]

if you have a broken lighter in need of fixing go to my post to get it fixed

heres the link:
http://www.instructables.com/community/do-you-have-a-broken-lighter/

[matrix828]

use the striking surface that u cut off instead of sand paper, i might work better, i dont know

[sharlston]

its the same thing on strike anywhere mayches

[qwerty29]

how did you come up with this it is so cool:)

[cool!]

WOW! I will have to try this, even though I'm 12 and know that smoking is terrible, I think I am going to try this lighter just to see it work! One thing that might be cool would be to have a compartment that holds matches, that would be cut into part 1 Very nice, +1

[CarStalkerZ]

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[cool!]

Way to show your "Maturity" Ps. im 13 now.

[thepaul1993]

i dont get it

[cool!]

Sorry, I got a bit PO'd. Basically it seemed like what car stalker said, was rather rude, and I see now that the "Dumb @sses" part was sort of quoting qballcat. Anyway, sorry for that.

[thepaul1993]

now i really don't get what is going on

[fancypenguin845]

lol tht 'appens to me all the tyme! ps i luv this 'structable! i always go into this gas station and im so tempted to try'n buy a zippo cuz theyr so kewl

[thepaul1993]

hooray for zippo

[cool!]

Ughh.. OK, Ill try again. I got pissed at car stalker because of what he said. So I retaliated, although I can see it looks stupid now.

[thepaul1993]

ok then.........

[qballcat]

im 12 also and i want zippo but this will do in the mean time till my uncle comes to visit but i totally agree with you on the first bit some 11 year olds were caught smokin in our school ,dumb asses thats what they are

[willdabeast]

im 13 and i gots like so many zippos cause i no this 22 y.o. ex-cop who buys em. 4 me. i got into trouble tho for smokin weed and cigs. DONT SMOKE POT!!! U WILL GET DRUG TESTED AND IT WILL COME POSITIVE AND YOUR PARENTS WILL KILL YOU!!! although it is pretty fun..

[silencekilla]

i love gettin high we should chill sometime yo im 16 though

[qballcat]

dude, not cool not cool you must be one ****** up little dude

[willdabeast]

dude, im the same age as u

[qballcat]

i know, the point but ur probably shorter

[willdabeast]

im 5'8" but im just gonna shut up cause this is startin to sound faggy

[CarStalkerZ]

you should all be reported your under age you noobs

[qwerty29]

12!

[qballcat]

haha noob im 13 now

[stasys]

Im 12 too and wot about drillin a type of hole i cm diameter in part 1 and keep say 10 matchs in there? I dont smoke either

[stasys]

PS I loooooooove the name: you kno: LOW TECH..... Lighter It really made me laugh ill tell my friends ill give you five stars

[HeWantsRevenge]

hahaha...avid smoker and imma have to make one of these for my collection. thanx for posting this. and for the whiners out there...u could always light a few candles and what not with this wecked low tech tool

[thepaul1993]

i dont smoke but i love zippos

[LuminousObject]

Awesome.

[baneat]

Compicated problem to a simple solution haha

[stasys]

is the part that looks like an L is it part 2?

[tater killer]

wicked!

[TheInventor]

Thats sick! It's old school with new school combine.//matches with lighters together|| Awesome!!! +1 Added to favs!

[GorillazMiko]

Nice1 Looks extremely easy to do, I just might do this because it's cool. No, I don't smoke. Just for lighting things... you know.... *BOOM!* +1 rating.

[gmjhowe]

Nice! well thort out and completed! Well done! i agree with cool! it needs a storage compartment, other than that its perfect!

[ker-boom101]

Holy crap this is nice a nice invetion... i catn recall but i remember a type of zippo looking ligter that you fill up with matches and when you spun the wheel it would strike the match against sandpaper ad move it upwards.... ps. if anyone finds t on the web could you please provide a link?