so here's my latest everyday tinder. It rides on the carabiner w/ my SAK. I'm cutting myself off with this item cuz I'm running out of space in the pocket
. In an earlier post of mine, the SAK can be seen w/ a little string of jute tagging along for tinder. I like the effectiveness of jute tinder, but wanted to be able to carry more for more fires so I started carrying a 2" fob made by cobra stitching about 5' of jute. the only problem to solve then was that I also wanted it a slightly more sustainable flame to allow time to catch fine dry kindling, or secondary tinder. If you've unraveled jute you know it catches like nobody's business w/
firesteel but POOF and it's gone. The idea sprung from a wax dipped-jute kindling setup for sale by Bushcraft Northwest. I just figured I'd dip my fob once in melted candle wax. in the pics, you can see it as it rides in my pocket, then how I pop out a stitch or two (that's all it takes) w/ the knife and cut if off. last pics are the unraveled fluff pile, and finally the 1min. flame followed by the 2 min flame. whole thing was burned out by 3 minutes.
by the way, not sure why the camera time of the photo is same on last two, I had the stopwatch going so time is good.