Feather Sticks Fire Lighting

For easier fire starting try to find a soft wood.

Feather sticks fire lighting.

Soft wood is easier to carve and usually easier to light. You will eventually want the harder wood to sustain your fire but usually a softer lighter wood works best for feather sticks. A video on the preparation and use of feather sticks and how to create reliable tinder from dry wood. Place several pieces of kindling on top of the tinder and fire stick resting in the fire ring.

A feather stick is a piece of dry wood shaved down to make fine curls which will light with a fire steel. Lay the burning tinder into your fire right carefully so you do not extinguish the young flame. I don t go out without a fire steel so i know that with my knife i should be able to make fire whatever the weather. 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.

Feather sticks help us in numerous ways. Being able to light a featherstick directly with a fire steel was for me a real enabler. Struggle persevere struggle some more persevere struggle sharpen the knife aha. Today we look at making a feather stick for fire lighting.

Use the now burning fire sticks to light the tinder you are holding in your hand. Remove your fire sticks from their holder and light them.