Torchmaking
Torchmaking
I wouldn't want this to be a completely separate skill, but it would be nice to somehow gather tree resin and apply it to medium branches to make our own torches.
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
-Hamlin Garland
-Hamlin Garland
Take a chop into a pine trunk, let the sap drip into a bucket, boil the contents of the bucket to make the resin? Then dip the branch into the bucket. Don't think it would require any carving other than removing the bark from a branch.
I'm not a survivalist though, I might have the process down wrong.
I'm not a survivalist though, I might have the process down wrong.
The lore compels me!
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On the same track, is there any way to find firestones naturally? Are they some kind of unique stone to clok or is it just another name for flint and steel?
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
-Hamlin Garland
-Hamlin Garland
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