Easier to Light a Fire With a Pencil Sharpener
Tinder is best made from fine shavings. The next time you go camping, consider throwing a pencil sharpener in your backpack.
Sure, you can shave off the wood to use as tinder with a good knife, but it’s still difficult to get these shavings as thin as possible with a pencil sharpener. As theInstructables userCaspos shows us, the sharpeners are tiny and weigh almost nothing, so they can be easily inserted along with the rest of the equipment. Locate such that has two holes of different size and is made of magnesium. As you already know, magnesium shavings are highly flammable, helping to catch even slightly damp tinder. Simply run the back of your knife over the sharpener to shave off a tiny piece of magnesium on the wood.
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