A few days back I told a couple of friends I get some fatwood together for them. This afternoon I decided to process some and get it ready to send off. It was a nice afternoon out, here some shots of my views looking up while out by the fire pit.
This is the fatwood stump I started splitting.
It's a nice rich little stump, they should be happy with it.
And... to show just how good of fatwood it is...these are some shots from Lisa's first firesteel lesson. Until today Lisa had never made a fuzz stick, though she has done a good bit of whittling, and had never sparked her firesteel even once. I was really proud of her, I think she did really well, making three small fatwood fuzz sticks and igniting all three in just under ten minutes. She did really well on the last one going from sparking tinder to flames in about 7 seconds.
#1... ummm, this one was rather entertaining.
#2 She did much better on this one
and then #3 and I think she did great with this one
This is the video of her sparking the last one...she beat me and my camera by about half a sparking. I tried to embed the video but apparently don't know how...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUF0dS-0wZg
This is the fatwood stump I started splitting.
It's a nice rich little stump, they should be happy with it.
And... to show just how good of fatwood it is...these are some shots from Lisa's first firesteel lesson. Until today Lisa had never made a fuzz stick, though she has done a good bit of whittling, and had never sparked her firesteel even once. I was really proud of her, I think she did really well, making three small fatwood fuzz sticks and igniting all three in just under ten minutes. She did really well on the last one going from sparking tinder to flames in about 7 seconds.
#1... ummm, this one was rather entertaining.
#2 She did much better on this one
and then #3 and I think she did great with this one
This is the video of her sparking the last one...she beat me and my camera by about half a sparking. I tried to embed the video but apparently don't know how...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUF0dS-0wZg