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Can you make fat wood?
- Thread starter WVHILLS
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Not too long ago someone posted a thread about doing this. If I remember correctly they basically soaked some wood in some heated/melted pitch. They said it worked good. For the amount of work and mess, I would just go down to the local Lowe's and buy some. It's around $6 for a whole big box of it.
Charlie
Charlie
That would be Bushman5's
"make your own fatwood + nuclear firestorm tinder paks"
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=584580
When I find it at a certain Lowes it's usually $1 for a 5 pound box. Not that I don't live in a pine state or anything. 
Funny though that the Lowes near where I work sells the same 5 pound box for nearly $6. Amazing how different they can be sometimes.
As for making your own. Other than using the wax/cardboard or similar methods or for that matter boiling the pitch out of already good fatwood and soaking it into something else, why bother. Just use fatwood. I'm not saying the nuclear firestarters are a waste of time or anything, but if it's already available why reinvent the wheel.
Funny though that the Lowes near where I work sells the same 5 pound box for nearly $6. Amazing how different they can be sometimes.As for making your own. Other than using the wax/cardboard or similar methods or for that matter boiling the pitch out of already good fatwood and soaking it into something else, why bother. Just use fatwood. I'm not saying the nuclear firestarters are a waste of time or anything, but if it's already available why reinvent the wheel.