Skills challenge:1 stick fire w/ axe Pt.2

Alright so I kind of messed up there. I hit the stop button instead of the pause button so this is going to have to be a two-parter. Not that that matters anything. Okay so I've split up a bunch of pencil to pencil lead thickness sticks. I've got a bunch of shavings I made already. I'm just going to show you guys how I did a few shavings and then we'll make some fuzz sticks. And then we're going to see how it goes. So I just took a normal piece. Let's go. Go. Cool it down. I took a normal piece and choked up on the ax, right? I'm just going to, pretty much just like with a knife, it works pretty good. Good and small and curly enough that I'm pretty sure it'll work if I don't spill it all over the place. Okay, so I got those. Oh, I just wanted to go through, like when you're splitting the wood, you don't want to hold it and try and swing through. You're going to almost certainly hit your thumb. What I do is I hold it and tap it in until it's grabbing, it's grabbing, then I follow this way just a little safety okay so to make the fuzz sticks run the axe blade at 90 degree to the wood that's not working very well acts like this I hope you guys can see that there I'm not I'm not sure the sun's too bright for me to tell all right sorry about that my neighbor was outside I think she thought was talking to myself all right so like i said i scraped it this way and actually it worked really well like that uh i think that's how i'm going to use my fire steel to support the axe and run the fire steel along the blade all right like i always said i don't think it's gonna not gonna work anywhere else not on the pole or nothing mentioned sharpening uh filing a straight edge on the back which would work but i think i'm just gonna go with the blade let's go stop eating my basswood Throwing basswood. All right, so I've got my scrapings here, my tinder ready next to it. So there it goes. It wasn't so bad. I was expecting the fire steel to give me a little bit harder of a time. You can see I've got the fire going. Now I'm not going to keep the fire going because my neighbors probably wouldn't be too happy about it, and I don't really need the fire. I just did this to see if I could do it. I know that I can. I'd encourage you guys to get out and try some stuff like this. to see, just go outside your skill level, outside your comfort zone, and be amazed what happens. I'm really glad I did it. So yeah, just once again, thanks to Iowa Woodson for the challenge, and I hope you guys have a good one.