Fatwood clarification.

[Bushman5]

so i have a question. it seems a large majority of WSS people are from the north and canada. is fatwood only from pine trees?

Up here in Central B.C. I have been finding some good fatwood in stumps of Douglass Fir trees. I don't know what other tree species have fatwood.

all my "royal reserve" fatwood has been from douglas fir heartwood.

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[bcornelis]

Bushman, yeah thats what I am talking about!

 

[fishshooter]

Ive seen standing 75' dead trees that are pure fatwood. They make a big flame and burn for a long time.

I don't think I've seen trees that big, but my Dad carved this totem when I was a kid. It is solid "fat lighter" or fatwood. I remember going to the woods to get it with a flatbed trailer. It's hard stuff, it took him a few weeks to carve it. There is almost as much in the ground as out, and there is over seven feet sticking out of the ground.

The stuff is very plentiful around these parts. I sold a dump truck load of it off some property I acquired.

 

[Skimo]

That's what I'm talking about!

Fatwood ages very well.

I don't recognize that style, it looks Polynesian to me.

 

[Bigfattyt]

Just think of fatwood, like congealed blood. Kill some one, let him sit for a period of time, long enough for the blood to settle in the lower half of his body. It pools at the lower points and then hardens and thickens. This is how, when you kill some one and leave him in position for a while, then you try to stage his death with a pile of blow, and a bunch of hooker brochures, an experienced crime scene detective will know that the crime scene was staged, and the guy did not really die riding the blow up porpoise.

Fat wood is the same, only there is no staged crime scene with a blow up porpoise, or blow, or hooker brochures.


The sap will settle, and harden. If the tree is standing up for a long time, then falls over it won't necessarily be all at the bottom. It can settle in spots.