Fatwood Processing and Some Fiestarting With The Mrs.

Mistwalker

Mistwalker

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A few days back I told a couple of friends I get some fatwood together for them. This afternoon I decided to process some and get it ready to send off. It was a nice afternoon out, here some shots of my views looking up while out by the fire pit.

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This is the fatwood stump I started splitting.

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It's a nice rich little stump, they should be happy with it.

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And... to show just how good of fatwood it is...these are some shots from Lisa's first firesteel lesson. Until today Lisa had never made a fuzz stick, though she has done a good bit of whittling, and had never sparked her firesteel even once. I was really proud of her, I think she did really well, making three small fatwood fuzz sticks and igniting all three in just under ten minutes. She did really well on the last one going from sparking tinder to flames in about 7 seconds.

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This is the video of her sparking the last one...she beat me and my camera by about half a sparking.

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dawsonbob said:
Good pics, Mist, but I fear for Lisa's leg in that one pic, the way she's cutting into the stick.
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I know...I try to tell her but it's not her first knife and she has whittled me out more than one walking stick over the last six...nearly seven years, and she really wasn't having to put much pressure at all on the knife...lol, it's a Breeden and nearly a "virgin" so it has one h#ll of an edge.


KuRUpTD said:
Here you go MW ... nice looking fatwood, love the smell of it.
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Thanks man, I appreciate that.

Yeah, this one is really rich...lol, I wanted to pick out some good stuff to send out.
 
kgd said:
Good stuff!
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Thanks Ken. I've been trying to get her outside for some practice since she got the knife some months ago...now that the mosquitoes are gone she had no excuses. I was proud of how quick she did the last one...the first one was entertaining :D
 
Nice, I like seeing pics of your SCHF9, I dig that knife.


I like that Breeden too, a lot like the one posted in the SERE thread, without the guards.


I haven't found a nice rich stump like that, but I keep hoping:o
 
TheGame said:
Ouch.

lol

Good post :thumbup:
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Hehehe I couldn't resist that one :o



6shooter said:
Nice, I like seeing pics of your SCHF9, I dig that knife.


I like that Breeden too, a lot like the one posted in the SERE thread, without the guards.


I haven't found a nice rich stump like that, but I keep hoping:o
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Thanks man, I'm diggin' it too.

Yeah, actually that knife was designed as a smaller version of the second knife that Bryan and I worked on. She's had it for months but I couldn't drag her outside long enough over the summer to do much with it because of our schedule and the mosquitoes.... For some reason she had reservations about turning me loose with it, I really can't imagine why. I'm just glad I finally got her out working with it.

Keep looking, if there are pines in the area you'll find some at some point.


mcjhrobinson said:
maybe i can get my ol lady to give it a shot now! thanks mistwalker. that fatwood looks lush
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Cool, glad I could help lol.

Yeah, it's a good stump, nice and rich.
 
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