Feathersticks or Shavings

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

Tags: Bushcraft,Survival,David Canterbury,Dave Canterbury,Pathfinder,The Pathfinder School,Archery,Hunting,Fishing,Camping,Primitive Skills,Fire,Water,Shelter,Navigation,First Aid,Search and Rescue,Signaling,Prepper,Preparedness,Self Reliance,Survivability,The 10 C's,Knives,Axes,Saws,Bow Drill,Ferrocerium Rod,Ferro Rod,Tarp,Hammock,Canteen,Cooking,Longhunter,Trapping

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with the Pathfinder school and what I wanted to discuss this morning was a oftentimes forgotten method for creating fine tender material to start a fire and I see lots and lots of videos and pictures posted all over the internet about how to make feather sticks how to make feather sticks how to make feather sticks feather sticks and the skill to make feather sticks are fantastic as long as you have soft woods available but if you have a marginal type wood even if it's softer wood that's punky you're not going to make feather sticks well with that would no matter what your skill level is so you're going to have to understand there are multiple methods for creating these tender sources and one of them is to use the back of your knife the 90 degree spine that I speak of so often as a spokeshave entice to take fine veneers of wood off and this will work even if your wood is marginally punky where a feather stick will not work and you combine that with a good stick bundle and a piece of char cloth and I guarantee you you'll have a fire before the guy next to you has three feather sticks carved it's that fast and that simple as long as you have a good 90 degree spine on your knife and I don't see enough people taking advantage of that feature of a knife that 90 degree spine can do so much for you it's not only good for striking your ferrocerium rod it's great for processing material for fire stay with okay guys well that was just a quick and down and dirty lesson on how to use your knife as a spokeshave on some marginally punky wood actually I just pulled out of a pile of wood from students over here from last year and I noticed it was a little bit spongy and punky look and I knew it wasn't going to make a good feather stick so I decided to use that for the demo grab a stick bundle from dead weeds around here on these field edges and boom fire in no time with just char cloth so I think that using that knife in that fashion is an underrated skill because I very rarely see people posting look what I did with a spine of my knife it's always look at this feather stick I made it looks like a chia pet and that's very cool like I said it's a viable skill to understand if you have lots of soft woods available to you and plenty of time but something like I showed in this video takes literally a few seconds to prepare enough tinder with an ignition source to create a fire as long as you have some kindling to throw with it like a stick bundle

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