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A feather stick (sometimes referred to as a fuzz stick) is a length of wood which has been shaved to produce a cluster of thin curls protruding from the wood. It allows damp wood to be used to fire making when dry tinder is hard to find.
It is believed to be a traditional method of fire starting, using basic tools and methods.
While the flakes can be fairly coarse, the finer they are shaved the more easily they Making fire.
Feather sticks can be used with char cloth, where a small piece of the cloth is wound around the curls and a spark is struck on to it, using either the traditional flint and firesteel or a modern ferrocerium striker. This is then blown onto until the curls catch fire: the whole feather stick is then placed into the waiting kindling to start the campfire.
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