Striker knife and natural tinder fun

Woods Walker

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Striker knives and natural tinder.


Just for fun and skills practice I cracked out some striker knives and natural tinder. The intent was to get coals not flames.


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The milk weed ovum is a go! First it has to be torn in 1/2 for the fluffiest of the fluffiness.


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Worked


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Did good on this chaga as well.


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Sharp.


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Up next the controversial chaga and milkweed fluff stuffed milkweed pod.


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Here it is.


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The large striker knife. Crazy convexed sharpness of O1 joy.


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My aim was bad and the fluff wanted to suck up the dust or rather sift it away but the very edge caught a marginal carbon steel spark.


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Smoldering.


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I have always found flashover tinder alone to be sucky at getting flames from a coal and this was no exception.


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Thanks for looking.
 
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