Best types of wood to make Fuzz sticks???

upnorth said:
I have almost no experience with fuzz sticks, but I should practice anyway I suppose. The thing for me is, if I need a fire it's probably damn cold. And real cold makes it hard to manipulate with fingers. I really try to get things going quickly at -25. I will not put fuzz sticks down out of my own ignorance though. I'll try and see how workable they are for me. May be the cats pajamas, won't know until I fool around with them a bit. I'll use whatever is localy dead.
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I'm still practicing making good fuzzy sticks but while playing around the other day I noticed I can get some bad fuzzies and a good amount of shavings very quickly. What I did was hold the stick in my left hand at chest to eye level and then set the knife on the stick flat. I then moved the knife back and forth very quickly with almost no pressure and then tipped the knife just a little til it started making curls. It makes a bunch very quickly and with a very low amount of energy output. Something you might look into. The reason I want to do proper fuzz sticks is to learn knife control and for the fact that they don't blow away in a stiff wind or scatter if you bump the base you're building your fire on. Scouter27 brings up a good point that I never thought about. The fact that your tinder is attached to the kindling can't be anything but good.
 
I've been teaching kids with leftover pine shelving from various projects. Also, practicing with green tulip poplar sometimes gives good results
 
Hmmm, this looks like an old post from last year. And I am still lame with fuzzy sticks. I just do enough to create additional dry surface area ''wings'' for fire starting. It seems to work well enough. Maybe now is my time to get a bit more serious about them.....But meanwhile, it's saturday night !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYw0KhwXdAY
 
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