resin is awesome stuff

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knoefz

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Had some fun with my Esee3 and some resin, that stuff is just magical, catches a spark like it's gasoline :D

The donor:
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scraped it of with a sharpened stick, sorry, but I want no sticky stuff in my sheath. :o
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sticky goo with some shavings
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out of focus :(
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half a spark was enough to light into flames :D
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Yep, people go on about fatwood but I'd take some resin as my ignition source any day !
 
I like to featherstick a small piece of fat wood and stand it on end so that the sparks fall into the V. Lights every time no mess. Never tried resin but I will try it. No shortage if pines where I live.

Thanks for the tip. Nice pics.

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I always thought about using resin but never actually tried it. Do you have to mix it with some tinder to take the spark or will the resin catch on it's own?
 
Shotgun said:
I always thought about using resin but never actually tried it. Do you have to mix it with some tinder to take the spark or will the resin catch on it's own?
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Nah as long as it's near the flash tinder it will catch !

[video=youtube;kdQA_LdjpOQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdQA_LdjpOQ[/video]
 
Scots Pines in this area were under heavy attack by Pine Bark Beetle. The severe Winter of 2013-14 knocked them back some, and we just had a much colder one.

One result has been abundant resin flows as the trees tried to fight the beetles, leading to large lumps of rosin. I toke a walk in the Fall of 2013 and collected about twenty pounds of it in slightly under two hours. Love the smell. Sort of like dehydrated turpentine.
 
Shotgun said:
I always thought about using resin but never actually tried it. Do you have to mix it with some tinder to take the spark or will the resin catch on it's own?
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Even better when it dries, just to keep in a little baggie or pill bottle. It'll light on it's own without tinder even when wet. Grinding it into dust has yeilded the most uses for me. Also helpful as "lube" for your hands other than spit if you're into trying out the handrill.
 
Good to know:thumbup: I was recently hiking in New Mexico and just about every pine had some resin lumps somewhere on it. Unfortunately, the oaks at home don't do that. Well, it's probably a good thing as it's a drag to clean that stuff off your car:D
 
Drop a few juniper berries into your bannock and the nostalgia for pine resin will be foremost in mind :) dad always taught that original pine fired up ... and I have been resin dependent (and warm wherever I was) for a lifetime.
 
pitdog said:
Nah as long as it's near the flash tinder it will catch !

[video=youtube;kdQA_LdjpOQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdQA_LdjpOQ[/video]
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B34NS said:
Even better when it dries, just to keep in a little baggie or pill bottle. It'll light on it's own without tinder even when wet. Grinding it into dust has yeilded the most uses for me. Also helpful as "lube" for your hands other than spit if you're into trying out the handrill.
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Thanks. I'll have to give it a try.
 
I don't know if you can even buy turpentine these days. When oil-based paints were the rule, turpentine was the thinner. It is - was - refined from pine sap.
 
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Thomas Linton said:
I don't know if tyuo can even buy turpentine these days. When oil-based paints were the rule, turpentine was the thinner. It is - was - refined from pine sap.
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Sure you can. Lots of artists out there still using oil. My wife is one. :D
 
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