Pencil sharpener.

[Moab]

https://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. 

[EBuff75]

I've picked up some metal pencil sharpeners (sort of like this Staedtler) 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.

[echo83]

https://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...

[Anianna]

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. 

[Brekar]

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.

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

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.

Now you've got me thinking of SHTF arrows made using X-acto knife or scalpel blades.

[Brekar]

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.

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.

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

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.

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.