>>1398331>"wax dipped wood chips"If you boil the wood chips or shavings in wax, you can use less wax, the wood is much drier, it will be 100% waterproof, and it will light much faster than simply dipping them in wax. The key is to keep heating them in the wax until they stop bubbling. That will mean they don't have any moisture left. Even very dry wood will boil like that until all the remaining moisture is gone.
If you carry a tincan and some candle wax with you while innawoods, you can make these over a campfire, if you are careful. If it gets too hot or you spill it into the fire, get the fuck away fast. lol Keep the fire low or on only a few hot coals. You can dry out green wood, frozen wood, and water soaked wood using this technique. Meaning you can increase your kindling and fire starting materials for later use so long as you can make the 1st fire. The hot wax is thin enough to drain off the wood chips and they chips don't even look like they have wax on them. A little candle wax can go a very long way.
A day's work of bushcraft or, sitting around the fire, whittling & talking usually provides a lot of woodchips & shavings.
