Video: Pencil Sharpeners for Fire Starting
Categories:: Survival+Preparedness • Video
Ben Sobieck | Jul 19, 2012 | Comments 1

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John D. McCann, author of Stay Alive! Survival Skills You Need, demonstrates how to start a fire using pencil sharpeners. These tools are perfect for making tinder with wet sticks.
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About the Author: Ben Sobieck is an online editor for Gun Digest, Living Ready, Tactical Gear and BLADE. His interests include hunting, knives and current events issues.








What a waste of time! We are all aware of how pencil sharpeners function, and you re-covered that without showing how well the tinder worked. The tinder is the point, not the trivial use of the pencil sharpener. The use of the pencil sharpener on twigs could have been covered in one sentence; it did not require a 5 minute video.