Feather Sticks Fire Lighting

You will eventually want the harder wood to sustain your fire but usually a softer lighter wood works best for feather sticks.

Feather sticks fire lighting.

A video on the preparation and use of feather sticks and how to create reliable tinder from dry wood. Making feather sticks is relatively easy. If your a little low on tinder making a feather sticks al. Use the now burning fire sticks to light the tinder you are holding in your hand.

Soft wood is easier to carve and usually easier to light. A feather stick is a piece of dry wood shaved down to make fine curls which will light with a fire steel. Remove your fire sticks from their holder and light them. 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.

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. Lay the burning tinder into your fire right carefully so you do not extinguish the young flame. 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.

Struggle persevere struggle some more persevere struggle sharpen the knife aha. Today we look at making a feather stick for fire lighting.