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This is a great organization to follow.
He makes one good point about using a pencil sharpener for tinder. It gets you into inner dry wood if your in a wet climate. Other than a tea candle to literally dry out whatever your trying to catch on fire. This seems like solid advice. I had never considered before.
I've picked up some metal pencil sharpeners (sort of like this Staedtler (https://smile.amazon.com/Staedtler-Sharpener-Pencils-Colored-510/dp/B005DDJZVY)) to keep in my bags for tinder making. They're small and don't weigh much, so they're easy to tuck in there until they're needed.
Quote from: Moab on January 31, 2023, 11:27:27 AMhttps://www.instagram.com/reel/CoFK38yAizQ/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
This is a great organization to follow.
He makes one good point about using a pencil sharpener for tinder. It gets you into inner dry wood if your in a wet climate. Other than a tea candle to literally dry out whatever your trying to catch on fire. This seems like solid advice. I had never considered before.
What a cool idea! He beat me to it with the drill, too...that was pretty awesome. Finally, some prepping tips that my kids are already proficient with...
Man, I thought this was going to be another of the creative pencil sharpening videos that have been going around the creator community lately, but here we have a legitimate pencil sharpener. Crazy!
My favorite is one of the woodworkers I follow on Instagram built and entire jig to sharpen a pencil with is table saw.
I've always thought carrying a metal pencil sharpener with replaceable blades is a smart tinder backup. I also thought that in a pinch you could make SHTF arrows with a symmetrical tip with one of these tools as a last ditch effort.
Quote from: Brekar on February 01, 2023, 12:21:27 AMI've always thought carrying a metal pencil sharpener with replaceable blades is a smart tinder backup. I also thought that in a pinch you could make SHTF arrows with a symmetrical tip with one of these tools as a last ditch effort.
Now you've got me thinking of SHTF arrows made using X-acto knife or scalpel blades.
Quote from: 12_Gauge_Chimp on February 01, 2023, 12:30:53 AMQuote from: Brekar on February 01, 2023, 12:21:27 AMI've always thought carrying a metal pencil sharpener with replaceable blades is a smart tinder backup. I also thought that in a pinch you could make SHTF arrows with a symmetrical tip with one of these tools as a last ditch effort.
Now you've got me thinking of SHTF arrows made using X-acto knife or scalpel blades.
Well as kids my little brother and myself used to make arrows and arrowheads out of anything laying around, i.e. sharpened branches with a knife, taking an old arrow we found at the lake and using a roofing nail as an arrowhead, hammering a metal soda bottle cap flat with a hammer then trimming it into shape with tin snips. They never worked, but damn it was fun to try.
I always figured that the pencil sharpener method might help in a situation where you need to make tinder and don't want to dull a knife because you have no reliable way to sharpen it. But hey, you might carry one and never need it, until the day you do. Kind of like a silcock key.
Quote from: Brekar on February 01, 2023, 12:50:28 AMQuote from: 12_Gauge_Chimp on February 01, 2023, 12:30:53 AMQuote from: Brekar on February 01, 2023, 12:21:27 AMI've always thought carrying a metal pencil sharpener with replaceable blades is a smart tinder backup. I also thought that in a pinch you could make SHTF arrows with a symmetrical tip with one of these tools as a last ditch effort.
Now you've got me thinking of SHTF arrows made using X-acto knife or scalpel blades.
Well as kids my little brother and myself used to make arrows and arrowheads out of anything laying around, i.e. sharpened branches with a knife, taking an old arrow we found at the lake and using a roofing nail as an arrowhead, hammering a metal soda bottle cap flat with a hammer then trimming it into shape with tin snips. They never worked, but damn it was fun to try.
I always figured that the pencil sharpener method might help in a situation where you need to make tinder and don't want to dull a knife because you have no reliable way to sharpen it. But hey, you might carry one and never need it, until the day you do. Kind of like a silcock key.
That's true.
And one of the best things is that the sharpeners aren't even really that expensive so you can buy a bunch at a time and put one or two in each bug out bag.