I had a new fire making experience. This may be common knowledge to many but it is new for me. I had a piece of pinewood left over from making Pinewood Derby cars for my twins in Cub Scouts. I was testing/enjoying the sharpness of my Cold Steel True Flight Thrower. This is a knife I filed the black finish off of the sides of the blade and put some effort into sharpening. I was carving very thin curls of wood off of the pine wood block. I believe the MagFire website has a picture of something similar. I put some in a fire safe place and tried my ferro rod on it. After several large showers of sparks the curls started to have a glowing ember. I blew on it and it burst into flame. I thought that was exciting so I had my son, in the Boy Scouts, check it out. I made some more curls and more showers of sparks. Once again I got a glowing ember and blew it into a flame. It seems to follow that if you have some dry softwood and a sharp knife that you could make thin curls and start a fire with a ferro rod.

Has anyone else tried this?