Collecting fatwood

I have used harvested fatwood in the past, but it is not my preferred method - I like char cloth or PJCBs. I would use fatwood hunting as an excuse for an outing before I paid for it online, but I can appreciate that it is easier for some of us to find natural stuff than others.

Also, Bushman5 has single-handedly depleted the Canadian fatwood stock, so good stumps are hard to come by (kidding!). ;)

Best,

- Mike
 
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this thing needs only one spark(so the forest fires:mad:)
 
FNG question: Is it just pines that create fatwood or can other high sap producing trees such as maple or birch(?) transform into fatwood as well?

Thanks,
Oaf
 
I havent heard of maple or birch producing fatwood. Just conifers..Pines, spruces,firs etc
 
Rinos, that's some beautiful fatwood!

Nice little feather-sticks take a spark like nobodies business.
 
Todays haul, about 20 pounds of fatwood, saw trumps axe, need to buy another saw that won't ever touch fatwood. :D

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and to give some scope, that lower right piece.
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I gave away a whole bunch of my fatwood pieces to my little cousins, so i went out to get some more for myself.

BK2 with unprocessed fatwood
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Another...heavy saturation
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More...the fatwood slayer
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more
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more
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aww yea, more pics...
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hope you like the pics...the pics dont do the fatwood justice..it is SO saturated..excellent heartwood fatwood.

-Gaurdian_A1
 
For the real survivalist who can't go without beer and doesn't want to leave water spots on nature, the fatwood beer coaster...

I'm loving your almost pure resin fatwood, the pictures do it justice, you're lucky to not have knotty wood as well. :D

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Thanks, I plan on making 3 more, they should stack very nicely together art and function I suppose, man I wish I had a band saw. :)
 
I know the location of two stumps that should provide me with it for many years if none of you find them. Both are about 6' tall and 36' - 40" across. Luv'n the beer coaster Skimo.
 
Bushman5 said:
nice BK2 handle mod! ;)
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What can i say bushy, Your idea was excellent and having seen so many other people mod thier knives i thought i would give it a try. The handle on my BK2 is way better now...I ALMOST liked it the way it was before, but the dremel tool added the extra grip i wanted. I like the pattern i ended up with.
 
Thank you Sadiejane.

I was wondering what was up with that BK2 handle, looks good.
 
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