How To Make A Fire With Your Survival Knife

You will want to know how to make a fire, even when matches or a lighter are not available to you. This skill can be a lifesaver, particularly if you find yourself without matches or a lighter in a survival situation.

What do you need?

You will need a Survival Knife with a carbon steel blade. This is important because a survival knife with a stainless steel blade might not produce the spark you’re looking for. The spark comes from little pieces of metal coming off of the striker or Survival Knife in our case. That’s why we use the backside of the blade and not the sharp surface. Using the cutting surface will make your blade dull. That is also why a stainless steel blade may not work. The harder the steel, the smaller and hotter the pieces that come off will be, making it easier to burn the tinder and get our flame going.

You will also need a strike rod. No, not the variety they used to beat a red-headed stepchild in years past. A strike rod is usually made of magnesium or a mixture of steel and magnesium. I recommend you use a string to affix it to your survival knife if the handle of your knife has a hole that you can use, or attach it to your survival knife’s sheath. At the very least a strike rod should be always available in your survival kit.

You will also need carefully prepared tinder. Use your Survival Knife to trim dry bark off of trees, if possible dead tree limbs. Dried grass or the cotton like material behind some tree barks like a cottonwood make excellent tinder. Shape the tinder in to a bird’s nest, this provides the glowing embers some shielding from the wind. Try to keep the material as loose as possible. Don’t bunch it together like a snowball. Loose material has more gaps where oxygen can fuel the flames.

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