Feather Sticks Fire Lighting

Use the now burning fire sticks to light the tinder you are holding in your hand.

Feather sticks fire lighting.

Place several pieces of kindling on top of the tinder and fire stick resting in the fire ring. Soft wood is easier to carve and usually easier to light. Struggle persevere struggle some more persevere struggle sharpen the knife aha. A feather stick is a piece of dry wood shaved down to make fine curls which will light with a fire steel.

You will eventually want the harder wood to sustain your fire but usually a softer lighter wood works best for feather sticks. Today we look at making a feather stick for fire lighting. Feather sticks help us in numerous ways. Remove your fire sticks from their holder and light them.

Lay the burning tinder into your fire right carefully so you do not extinguish the young flame. Being able to light a featherstick directly with a fire steel was for me a real enabler. Making feather sticks is relatively easy. If your a little low on tinder making a feather sticks al.

For easier fire starting try to find a soft wood. 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.