Today we look at making a feather stick for fire lighting.
Feather stick fire.
A feather stick is a piece of dry wood shaved down to make fine curls which will light with a fire steel.
You should be aiming to produce a dense bundle of such high quality feathers.
Don t carve thick shavings.
Remember a feather stick is supposed to take your fire from the first ignition to a blaze.
This is where feather sticks come in.
There are a few essential conditions that must be met in order to produce a fire.
The shavings we are looking for on our feathersticks should be long and fine.
Knowing how to make a feather stick for fire lighting is a well known bushcraft skill so really i m showing nothing new here but where it comes into its own is when you are faced with difficult weather conditions of wet damp wood to actually start that fire.
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Fire sticks are tasked with one extremely important job quickly generating your initial heat fuel source.
If your a little low on tinder making a feather sticks al.
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It allows damp wood to be used to start a fire when dry tinder is hard to find.
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Therefore the body that is the stick should be fine enough that the flaming feathers will ignite the neck of the stick and so ignite the whole featherstick.
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Use a sharp knife.
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They are thinner than traditional kindling and there can get flames to catch more rapidly when used properly.
A feather stick serves as both a fire starter and tinder.
There are a few variations on how to make a feather stick and which you use will depend on the situation and your own preferences.
Feather sticks help us in numerous ways.
Sometimes it can be difficult to find dry tinder to light your fire.