Can you make fat wood?

W

WVHILLS

Gold Member
Joined
Aug 2, 2006
Messages
1,836
Is it possible to manufacture home made fat wood? Possibly soak some wood for a time in some sort of flammable material?
 
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
 
CShepherd said:
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
Click to expand...
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. :p 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.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top