![]() Proceed with building your fire with the burning bundle and the (I'm assuming here) other sticks and fuel you had prepared. There will still be ember(s) glowing in the tinder box, so you use the damper to snuff them out so you can use them again tomorrow, etc. Blow down into the box until you get your bundle to catch, and then transfer the bundle to your prepared fire pit. You throw sparks down into the box until an ember catches on one of your pieces of charred tinder, and then hold your tinder/kindling bundle inside the box up against the glowing ember. The way a tinder box works (if you're using a damper) is to keep the charred tinder in its box, rather than holding a piece of charred material on your flint. This could be charred cloth, conks (fungi/mushrooms that grow on logs), and/or punky wood. This one should be replenished regularly as materials are available. sticks, twigs, birds nests, twine that can be unwound, pine needles, fatwood, etc. Slot 2: Dry kindling for bundling/nests (ie. Slot 1: Firesteel, various flint pieces, loose bits of linen that haven't been charred, etc. I like what you've got going here! With the three compartments, I'd recommend using it like this: You won't be exposing the wood to fire for long periods, so you could expect charring but little burning of your wooden box. If it either A) fits tight enough to restrict airflow, or B) goes all the way down to be able to smush (and thus snuff out) the tinder, this will work also. The function of a damper is to cut off oxygen to the burning tinder. I guess if it would cause a problem I could fill it with something, maybe epoxy, if that's not flammable The countersink from that sharp cutter (that I've now hidden) is so deep it nearly goes all the way through the wood, normally I wouldn't worry but that means the back of the damper isn't flat, I'm probably overthinking this but does that mean it will trap air and wont work? because the compartment in the box is slightly off square it took ages to make and I don't want to remake it but I will if I have to The only photo's I found were of char-cloth under the damper, does this work with other kinds of charred material like punk wood etc.?Īlso I messed it up a bit, unknown to me I have two countersink cutters, no idea where the extra one came from but it's a lot sharper than my normal one (left) How close fit does the damper need to be to put out the ember? I want to be able to use a wooden damper to put out charred material and I've seen photo's of tinderboxes where this is done, so that's what I started to make, but I don't understand it well enough, and I could hardly find any information online about using a wooden tinderbox with a damperĭo you have to do anything to stop the wood of the box from being flammable or will it just not burn? It's far from finished but I've got a bit stuck because I have no experience of how a tinderbox is actually used, so started cutting wood with no real plan at all In the future I'll probably make a more compact version. It's turned out bigger than I thought it would be because of the thickness of the wood I have on hand but I'm sticking with it, at the moment I just want something that works that I can learn to use. I think it's much bigger that something I would carry trekking, but maybe? it depends on the final weight. twitter())from my data.I thought that maybe my carpentry skills might be up to the challenge so I decided to give this a go, this is the box I have so far: ![]() ![]() contain and $MyString= elements down, but for the life of me, I can’t figure out expressions, conditions, counts, or other calculation efforts so as to gather more insights or express insights (e.g. Is anyone aware of a Tinderbox coding & syntax tutorial? I have the basic. ![]() I’ve read the tinderbox ref files, but I’m getting lost. It is the community that I’d like to refer to now.īelow are two posts from a community form thread I started. Not only is Tinderbox a powerful tool, one that I will be teaching every one of my students from here on out (hopefully I’ll be able to cut their learning curve down to days and weeks and not years, as in my case), it has an unparalleled community. It was not until about two weeks ago, however, that the curtain was pulled back, the clouds parted, and the power of Tinderbox was bequest to me. I’ve always known it was important and had faith, but, alas, its power eluded me for years. In a nutshell, Tinderbox is a knowledge creation, curation, visualization, and publishing tool. It has to be one of the most influential tools I’ve ever used. How it has become one of the most influential tools I’ve ever used A community and self-reliance story: Tinderbox. ![]()
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