Making a Feather Stick - Bushcraft Basics

Today we look at making a Feather Stick for fire lighting. Feather sticks help us in numerous ways; if your a little low on tinder making a feather-sticks allows you to turn what would otherwise be larger fuel into a tinder allowing you to start your fire. It's also a handy skill to know if it has been raining a lot and a lot of the dead wood is wet (on the outside) feathersticking allows you to access the dry inner wood and can provide the tinder, kindling & fuel to get your fire started. It is a skill worth practicing and can be enjoyable to do.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• feather
• sticks
• feathersticks
• bushcraft
• fire
• tinder
• lighting
• kindling
• firesteel
• spark
• wood
• carving

[TheWoodsranger]

The feather-stick turned out great, but i have a question. You are using hazel, but as far as i know, hazel is hard wood! And everywhere i hear that feather-sticks are made of soft woods like willow, pine and spruce, so is hazel an exeption??

[NaturalBushcraft]

@TheWoodsranger Hazel is good for carving not just feathersticks but stuff like spoons also.

[NWoodsman]

Another clear demonstration. I didn't see this technique until now, I always used the method that Ray Mears explained in his video. But I'll give this one a try, it sure seems very effective.

[NaturalBushcraft]

@NWoodsman It's great practice for your knife skills and enjoyable to do. The fine curls at the end are essential for catching the sparks. Good luck,

Ashley Cawley.

[DustinTheGoth]

Every time I see the foxes in the beginning of your intro I smile.

The music helps a lot too.

[NaturalBushcraft]

@DustinTheGoth Thanks for letting me know :) Glad you enjoy it. It's one of my favourite bits of film when I managed to see fox cubs & film them for the first time, shame about the camera quality at the time but I think the content makes up for it! Search YouTube for "Watching Fox Cubs in Spring" and you'll see the full footage I captured that day. All the best,

- Ashley Cawley.

[BombMastre]

Thank you!

This is the simplest, but yet best tutorial on how th make feather sticks on youtube!

Great demo, great work :-) Keep em' comming!

[cyclist01222]

That feather stick is so pretty I would hate to burn it :-)

[n6663]

Textbook!

[TehPwnguin]

Dude!!!! Now that's bushcraft

[MatchlessFire]

nice one

[blackbat1339]

well darn, i live in an oak majority forest, how does maple work, well i could just use shavings if i need and scrapings

[JesusNo2]

My cats breath smells of cat food

[surviva1000]

great video! :) what is the name of this mora? thanks

[dartmoorwolf]

there was definatly an element of artistic flair in that knife, excelent

[Babyglockster27]

I LOVE my carbon steel Mora knives! Better than most of my umpteen dollar American blades. Great video, mate! Cheers!