This is Maya Dust Firestarting Tinder



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Has anyone here ever used this stuff? Seems like it might be useful in a survival kit. What do you guys think?

Fat wood is better i've heard maya dust does'nt work as well.
you can get maya sticks which is fat wood. If you have a Wallmart they carry fatwood.

Lee

Will this stuff work if it gets wet?

the scrapings of fatwood will be much easier to light than the maya dust. Fatwood can be bought, as fatwood, mayawood or found in the wild.

Maya Dust works a hell of a lot better than MayaWood.

With Maya Wood you sometimes get SEVERAL sticks which are dry and of no use in regards to being "real" fat wood. They are just dry tinder... ALL of the Maya Dust is scrapings from quality fat wood.
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Personally, I wuld not buy MayaWood or Dust because there are better sources for quality fatwood even if they are "smaller" you get a MUCH better fat wood than Maya.

Thank you all for the replies.I'm gonna go ahead and buy the stuff. It's $ 4.50 per tin so one tin won't break the bank, & at the very least i'll have the waterproof tin to use afterwards to carry vasaline covered cotton balls <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

err... What is fatwood? This is first time I heard of this term.

I recently purchased some to go along with my Light My Fire starter and was very disappointed. Before a recent camping trip, I wanted to familiarize myself with it at home. Made a small pile and couldn't get it to catch a spark in two dozen attempts.

Then tried with a Tinderquick and it caught in one strike.

I then took a match to the Mayadust and it lit easily with a match and burned about the same, maybe a little longer than the Tinderquick.

It may work pretty well when a match is handy, but if I had to rely on a flint style starter, I would not rely on it.

Especially for the size, Tinderquick is a much better option for me.

Fatwood is a type of pine that is naturally saturated with resin; it is a great fire starter. I have never tried to shave it down so it would catch a spark but it would probably work.

http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/...chTerms=fatwood

what he said. Big pieces can be collected from fallen tree's, which has fallen suddenly in the spring. The roots will keep on pumping the tree remaining trunk full with resin. The older one's can be easily be spotted, because fat wood doesn't rot (well it takes awhile).

Other places are the spots where you can find resin saturated wood in pine are where the brandches are joint to the tree and the large roots from pine tree's.