A feather stick sometimes referred to as a fuzz stick is a length of wood which is shaved to produce a cluster of thin curls protruding from the wood.
Feather stick fire.
Use a sharp knife.
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.
You should be aiming to produce a dense bundle of such high quality feathers.
A feather stick serves as both a fire starter and tinder.
Today we look at making a feather stick for fire lighting.
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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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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They are thinner than traditional kindling and there can get flames to catch more rapidly when used properly.
The shavings we are looking for on our feathersticks should be long and fine.
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Remember a feather stick is supposed to take your fire from the first ignition to a blaze.
Don t carve thick shavings.
A feather stick is a piece of dry wood shaved down to make fine curls which will light with a fire steel.
This sounds like one of those well duh pieces of advice.
Fire sticks are tasked with one extremely important job quickly generating your initial heat fuel source.
It has been popularised in the media by proponents of bushcraft such as ray mears.
This is where feather sticks come in.
Sometimes it can be difficult to find dry tinder to light your fire.
Feather sticks help us in numerous ways.
But until you ve tried it you can t appreciate how hard it is to shave wood strips with a dull knife.