Have you ever showered your dry tinder with sparks over and over but for some reason it won't catch?
Okay,
1. Hold the firestick in your fingers in such a way that you can place your thumb on the striking surface.
2. Place some tinder between your thumb and the firestick.
3. Place your knife across the tinder and the firestick and lift your thumb; so now your knife is holding the tinder against the firestick.
4. With a little more pressure than usual, strike, taking the tinder with the knife - it's so much more efficient.
This also works with thicker heavier tinder than usual. For example; dry leaves. Simply put a small dry leaf under the knife and it will catch.
How do we know if the leaf is dry enough?
1. If you can crumple the leaf in your hand it is wet.
2. If the leaf breaks up in your hand it is dry.
Bear
Okay,
1. Hold the firestick in your fingers in such a way that you can place your thumb on the striking surface.
2. Place some tinder between your thumb and the firestick.
3. Place your knife across the tinder and the firestick and lift your thumb; so now your knife is holding the tinder against the firestick.
4. With a little more pressure than usual, strike, taking the tinder with the knife - it's so much more efficient.
This also works with thicker heavier tinder than usual. For example; dry leaves. Simply put a small dry leaf under the knife and it will catch.
How do we know if the leaf is dry enough?
1. If you can crumple the leaf in your hand it is wet.
2. If the leaf breaks up in your hand it is dry.
Bear