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Offline White Falcon

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Cotton ball and ash ember.
« on: December 03, 2023, 05:03:17 pm »
Unroll cotton ball, sprinkle fire ash on cotton ball. Start at one end and rool tight. Roll it back and fourth inbetween two flat boards and wallah.

Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Cotton ball and ash ember.
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2023, 12:20:20 am »
Cotton dryer lint works great for this, too. Now that I work in a hotel, I was able to score a gallon zip lock back of lint.  I have now added the lint and ashes in small baggies to all my fire making kits. Crazy how easy this technique is, isn't it?
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Re: Cotton ball and ash ember.
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2023, 09:13:26 am »
I'll have to give that a try, so no fire in the ashes, just cold ashes ?
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Cotton ball and ash ember.
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2023, 12:50:47 pm »
Just cold ash and lint. I had read about it a number of times and figured one would need to really put some elbow grease into it, but I was wrong. Couple of quick swipes and you got smoke!
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Offline BrianS

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Re: Cotton ball and ash ember.
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2023, 04:30:36 pm »
The process works very well. Here is a video I made about 3 years ago about using chaga in a fire roll. Ash, rust scrapings or something like chaga will work. If you skip by the first 3 minutes of the video you will see the chaga part and if you skip to about the 5 minute mark you will see the fire roll. The first time I tried I was surprised at how well it worked.
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Offline White Falcon

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Re: Cotton ball and ash ember.
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2023, 01:24:25 pm »
Thanks for the video.

Offline Allyn T

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Re: Cotton ball and ash ember.
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2024, 02:53:20 pm »
Never heard of this but I like it.
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Cotton ball and ash ember.
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2024, 11:15:01 pm »
Never heard of this but I like it.

Always nice to add another tool to your kit!
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Offline Allyn T

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Re: Cotton ball and ash ember.
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2024, 08:21:03 am »
Indeed it is : )
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