Tinder box made for my sons 21st Birthday. My son is at Glasgow uni. He joined the mountaineering club. When out with them they got stuck in a wood, it was snowing heavily and they had got a shelter up but were struggling to get a fire going. He's been learning to light fires with whatever is available since the age of 5. Within a short while he had established a roaring fire with a log wall reflector. He said that none of them had anymore than a lighter so I made him a tinder box.
Content:
Fatwood splinter bundles ×2
2 King Alfred's cake pieces
Rolls of birch bark
Ferro rod & striker.
The box can also be used as tinder if needed
Birch roll
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The fatwood splinters are wrapped in birch bark. All this goes in there.
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Compact waterproof box
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Packed.
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Birch bark tinder box
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That is a neat little all natural setup.
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Thank you
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I have attended a couple of workshops on harvesting birch bark for making this sort of thing. I live in an urban environment and somehow never seem to hit the sort of woods where I could do some harvesting at the right time of year. Maybe this year I'll get the chance.
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I only collect bark from dead birch trees. I want it really thick, its like leather and can be worked like leather when it has been soaked.GillyBee wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 8:30 am I have attended a couple of workshops on harvesting birch bark for making this sort of thing. I live in an urban environment and somehow never seem to hit the sort of woods where I could do some harvesting at the right time of year. Maybe this year I'll get the chance.
You can also make a waterproof tar glue from it the bark. I go looking for dead birches ideally tall & straight if the are on the floor and not rotten I prop them on logs so the bark doesn't rot. After 6-12 months the wood starts to rit and the bark can be easily cut from it.
