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Last time I talked about having trouble lighting a cigar in the woods using a mini-bic lighter. Boy, did that seem to stir up contraversy. I had my bic-fu questioned, was chastised about lighting up a cigar with a dirty fuel and generally chewed out for an inability to deal with the wind. So, some helpful hints were posted like try lighting your cigar with a piece of cedar.
Okay, so here it goes. Yesterday I was kind of board (pun) and looking at this piece of cedar plank my wife bought for cooking fish. We ate the fish but didn't cook the plank. So then I put two and three together and thought, cedar = bow drill, cedar = cigar lighter, thus bow drill = cigar lighter. Hey that should work!
Okay its night and flash sucks so sorry about the pics. Here was my cigar lighting station. Out on the back porch unfortunately. Can't miss W&SS chat you know!
This is a cheap Cuban cigar, but damn, its smooth and well worth the 1/3 price of Monte Cristo's!
Batoned part of the side of the cedar plank to make the drill and shaped it with my uber expensive knife (how fitting
). This stuff drills amazingly well. Note to others, if you want to test out bowdrill, head to your seafood section and buy a cedar plank for plank salmon. This stuff might even be easier than basswood for getting a coal!
Ember wouldn't show up with the flash, but it was a big'un! Jute twine tinder used to blow ember into flame.
Started up my cedar shavings from shaping the drill on fire...This was to light the cigar.
Ahhh, good stuff! Okay, the cigar does taste better when it was lit W&SS style!
Cheers all!
Okay, so here it goes. Yesterday I was kind of board (pun) and looking at this piece of cedar plank my wife bought for cooking fish. We ate the fish but didn't cook the plank. So then I put two and three together and thought, cedar = bow drill, cedar = cigar lighter, thus bow drill = cigar lighter. Hey that should work!
Okay its night and flash sucks so sorry about the pics. Here was my cigar lighting station. Out on the back porch unfortunately. Can't miss W&SS chat you know!
This is a cheap Cuban cigar, but damn, its smooth and well worth the 1/3 price of Monte Cristo's!
Batoned part of the side of the cedar plank to make the drill and shaped it with my uber expensive knife (how fitting
). This stuff drills amazingly well. Note to others, if you want to test out bowdrill, head to your seafood section and buy a cedar plank for plank salmon. This stuff might even be easier than basswood for getting a coal!
Ember wouldn't show up with the flash, but it was a big'un! Jute twine tinder used to blow ember into flame.
Started up my cedar shavings from shaping the drill on fire...This was to light the cigar.
Ahhh, good stuff! Okay, the cigar does taste better when it was lit W&SS style!
Cheers all!
Great post...
