I recently bought myself a Fallkniven A1 and after using it to do some extensive limbing on some pruned trees I fell in love with it. Dispite being sharp, its not exactly cut out for carving or other fine work. This led to some concern about making fine shavings from the heartwood of split logs in the event that I find myself in this situation.
While I was playing out today I thought it would be easy to make acceptable tinder if the wood was scored first.
Here are the components for the experiment.
Fallkniven A1
Fire Steel
Split of Cherrywood
Here you can see the scores made with the point of the knife.
The pile of shavings with the Fire steel for size reference. This was taken from the rather hard heart wood.
Softwood is a doddle, here is a typical shaved roll.
Reverse twist the roll and you get something like this.
A small pile of softwood shavings which will burn for about 30 seconds.
So, if you are out and about and only want to take a single 'do-all' blade, the A1 might be a nice choice.
While I was playing out today I thought it would be easy to make acceptable tinder if the wood was scored first.
Here are the components for the experiment.
Fallkniven A1
Fire Steel
Split of Cherrywood
Here you can see the scores made with the point of the knife.
The pile of shavings with the Fire steel for size reference. This was taken from the rather hard heart wood.
Softwood is a doddle, here is a typical shaved roll.
Reverse twist the roll and you get something like this.
A small pile of softwood shavings which will burn for about 30 seconds.
So, if you are out and about and only want to take a single 'do-all' blade, the A1 might be a nice choice.