How to make a simple candle, bushcraft style.

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In this Video I demonstrate how to make a simple candle from a few sticks, some birch bark and a bit of pine resin. these candles throw off a surprising amount of light for a decent amount of time, They also smell great as they are burning!

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hi everyone so I'm going to do another winter warmer little video for you today and today we're going to be looking at is how to keep away those cold dark nights so as you know in winter the days get much much shorter than they are in the summer which means that the Sun Goes Down much earlier and you have less light to work with so it's really important to get your camp and everything set up we're going to look at today is the first in a few videos of looking at creating your own kind of natural light for those cold dark night so we're going to be having a look at making some of your own candles today we're going to look at the very most basic of these candles we can make it doesn't burn for the longest but it's very quick to make and very very effective to make this what we need is a small green and stick so a piece of birch is usually what I use for this I'm going to have a suit so I can find a bird stick that's still green we need some pine resin some birch bark and some small twigs so let's get those materials ready and we'll have a look at how to make this candle so now as my resources of gathered the next thing I want to do is start preparing my candle so I've stuck it in the ground to start with and what I'm going to do is I'm going to split the kind of crossways split in here so that I've got effectively a crosshatch in the top of it so do you like just using my knife so we look walk so that have anything solid to work on and I'm going to be naughty and when a very gently use the back of my axe once that splits in I'm just going to work it down really gently because I don't want to break my stick

so there's first splitting and now comes to split number two this is where you have to be really careful because this is where its most likely to start breaking the one of these a little bit thin set might come on not to worry so once I've worked that split in I need to make sure this stays open so I'm gonna begin by wedging some little little sticks it and we'll start with one of the slightly thicker sticks just to widen it keep that wide wiggle it down because otherwise that sticks just going to break right down towards the bottom there's another slightly thicker one to go in the little bit this is where it might break where I cut it a little thin but if it breaks it breaks I'll work with what we've got not quickly 10 of it well good so she's one of these other ones

as far down as a cub it may have to tap that in a bit more okay so that's that nice and wide now the next thing I'm going to do is I've got to start loading this up in layers using the filler sticks and some of the pine resin and the birch bark which are collected which is in my pocket to dry it off is a little bit damp so this may take a while to actually get going so I'm going to start by placing in the lumps this pine resin between those two sticks I just placed in there there's one piece more piece

I'm trying my best not to kind of push this down because i still want oxygen and air flow in there so i'm going to aim to get the majority of my pine resin kind of central to the rest of the candle dropped a bit there a bit they're out of it there fiddly so just click those pieces up not to worry the pine resin can be squashed dial up more than the rest because it is by its very nature where we flower woof this will bring that down these sticks oops sticks outstanding sort of pack a little bit of a much black in got some more birch bark in the pocket sigh better quality stuff so this block in pocket is a little damp but still stood still get going go into these strips there I wasn't smell through that let's get some stock sir Oh museum

this is our candle here we go fit theoretically ready to go so let's see we can actually get this going so everything is a bit damp so it might take a while to actually get it going so I'm just going to use a lighter on what start at the bottom hate using light bar to Templeton

Moisture crop it away there you