Feather Sticks Fire Lighting

Feather sticks help us in numerous ways.

Feather sticks fire lighting.

A video on the preparation and use of feather sticks and how to create reliable tinder from dry wood. Remove your fire sticks from their holder and light them. 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. A feather stick is a piece of dry wood shaved down to make fine curls which will light with a fire steel. 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. Lay the burning tinder into your fire right carefully so you do not extinguish the young flame.

Soft wood is easier to carve and usually easier to light. Place several pieces of kindling on top of the tinder and fire stick resting in the fire ring. 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. 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. 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.