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Fatwood Slabs
Important note: these are not fatwood "sticks" - these are FatWood SLABS! Just oozing with aromatic resins, sticky with pitch, and ready to start your fire.
If you are looking for cheap imports and dry pine sticks posing as fatwood, look elsewhere. This is the real deal.
Fatwood is an excellent tinder to attach to your FireSteel so that it is there when you need it! Fatwood is naturally waterproof and contains flammable resins that help ignite damp firewood.
These fatwood sticks are not like the stuff you find elsewhere - mine are much bigger, thicker, and of higher quality than the thin strips and mill cast-offs that often pose as fatwood. When you need a fire you can depend upon this fatwood tinder. Enough for many dozens of fires.
Each Fatwood Slab is unique but the dimensions are between about 3/4 and 1-inch thick and 4-inches long. This is a HUGE piece of fatwood. More importantly, this fatwood has plenty of natural firestarting resin. You can smell the rich piney resins, the stuff that starts your fire. This is the VERY BEST fatwood on the market.
Much of the fatwood on the market comes from South America and is usually quite "dry". This inferior product is just about as good as dry pine posing as fatwood.
FireSteel.com fatwood is harvested by American loggers right here in the USA using sustainable forestry practices, FireSteel.com FatWood is widely used because of its very high quality.
These big slabs of FatWood are full of juicy resins that easily catch fire. Each slab has enough FatWood to start dozens of fires.
FireSteel.com FatWood Slabs are hand selected for superior fire making tinder properties. Hand-split to about about 4-inches in length and between 3/4 to 1-inch square - each piece is unique.
A 3/16ths inch lanyard hole has been drilled into one end of your FatWood Slab so that you can easily attach it to your gear or FireSteel.
To use FatWood as a tinder, simply scrape it with your FireSteel.com scraper or knife to produce a small pile of fine shavings. Then scrape a spark from your firesteel onto the pile. When you have a flame, add your regular tinder - even if this tinder is damp the fatwood fire will cause it to flame.
Specifications
- This is a big, thick stick - approx. 3/4 to 1 inches x 1/2 to 1 inch x 4 inches long
- 3/16ths inch lanyard hole drilled into one end for easy attachment to your firesteel gear
- Genuine southern pine fatwood that is full of flammable resins.
- Harvested in the USA by American loggers using sustainable forestry practices
- Highest quality resin filled fatwood you will find anywhere.
Fatwood Slabs Review
Product Reviews
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Quickest to catch fire
Posted by Ron of Northern California
I want to say this is some great fatwood. It took to flame very quickly and is not some cheap doctored kindling. Great wood to keep in your fire kit.
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The Best Product on the Market, PERIOD!
Posted by Robert C. San Diego - Survival/Backpacking Book Author
100% natural, safe, non explosive, stable, and carbon neutral. Did I mention dirt cheap and fundamentally a water proof tinder material?
Out in the wilderness hot burning tinder just is not readily available all the time. In any wet, cold, and rainy wilderness setting, fire is LIFE.
Every single hiker, backpacker, and self respecting survivalist should pack out with a FireSteel.com "ferro rod, mag bar, and a slab or two of fat wood" in their fire kit!
For under $30.00 you can have the same survival fire kit used by the US Special Forces, Navy Seals, and basically every other known (some unknown) Special opps professionals that use these same exact products on their missions operating in the most hostile and unfriendly environments known to man in many situations.
I would buy these products for 2 or 3 times the price without reservation because when I need fire on a cold wet night and I am dead tired operating on fumes at the end of a long days hike with a 50 to 60 lb pack on my back, I need fire fast and with minimal effort.
I use firesteel.com products exclusively, and I can only suggest you consider doing the same.
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BEST fire starter!
Posted by Dean
Was out this weekend in the swamps of Florida roughing it with the boys. We settled in for the night and worked on getting the campfire started. All we had was Super wet wood that was harder to light than anything I have ever used. Still trying to figure this wood out.
We had all sorts of fire starters with us and used them all. After a few minutes all of them would go out leaving us with no fire. Frustraded beyond belief, my son comes to me and said would these work, (bringing the me the fatwood).
I proceeded to light the whole piece of fatwood after scraping some off to get it started with the firesteel which is also amazing, This fatwood burned for nearly 45 minutes lighting all my camp fire and giving us a great night with fire.
You guys are the best - Thank you and I just placed an order for a lot more fatwood and throwing away all the other fire starters.
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These are big and resinous
Posted by John J
I've tried other fatwood tinder sticks. Usually they do not have much resin (which is required for the best fatwood). Your fatwood is top notch quality. The piece you sent is very large and is saturated with resin. Great product.
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Smells Great Too
Posted by Ted Bickford
Love the rich pine smell of these fatwood sticks. And they are BIG and full of resin. Top quality, just like the FireSteel.com firesteels!
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Great Tinder, Just Add a Spark
Posted by Scott Harrison
Like the man says, it's excellent tinder. My son, Bayr (thought he'd like seeing his name online), experimented: 1) a tiny dime-sized pile of scraped "powder" and 2) a pile of larger whittled shavings. Both took a spark right away and lit easily. So much resin in these!
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The Best Fatwood I have seen to date
Posted by Kevin
These are some of the most resinous fatwood slabs I have seen. One slab is like having three or four Sticks in your pocket. Simply fantastic.
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Lights Like Magic
Posted by Unknown
I really love this stuff. I take my fire steel, steel wool, and fat wood put a liitle fat wood on top of the steel wool and it lights like magic!!
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WORTH EVERY PENNY
Posted by Unknown
I'm in Northern Ontario ,Canada. I use fatwood the most during deer hunting season and occasionally throughout the summer. This fatwood has never let me down as most of the time when I'm out its cold and wet (late November) I take a few scraping and bit of birch I have a good fire in a few minutes, I bought several for the guys I hunt with as well as my kids.
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The Best Fatwood Ever!
Posted by Joe F. Durham NC
I was surprised with the quality of these fatwood slabs. Upon receiving them I tried to whittle some shavings for easy starting of my fireplace. I could not do so! These have so much resin in them that all I could do was scrape so off.
My only recommendation is that the hole drilled in each fatwood slab be larger. I had to drill new hoes in mine to get a paracod lanyard through.
** Note from Ron at FireSteel.com:
Thank you Joe! Here's the way I string paracord through my fatwood holes:
1) Cut the tip of your paracord lanyard at an angle so that it has a nice clean point.
2) Use a twisting motion as you push the tip of paracord through the fatwood lanyard hole.
Give it a try and have fun making fires!
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