Here is an easier way. Find an old growth stump cut it in in slices and split into small peices. Most Stumps left in the ground are loaded with pitch. You can find this stuff for sale on the internet its called fat wood. My kids are going to sell some boxes for Christmas money this year.
piker

Try using your recipe on pine cones. I've seen this done also. Just dip the cones in your mixture and let the dry.

piker

If you havent already seen the news that why Greece is on fire half the time Pine trees and cone burn great.
Yes when i lived there My sister and i go out get garbage full leave in basment and use them start are fire that mosly pine and i think olive trees there and thorn bushes.
You know what the saw dust and wax take less effort and work ahah
Any one want one my saw dust wax oat meal wedges looking yum yum
i use the egg holder but i am a coscos buying egg beaters all the time there more healthy untill i add cheese with them,

On the link i posted with all kinds stuff they said use the toliet paper rolls and shove lint from your dryers in it.
I dont think those burn long enought that why i skipped that one and made the one wax and allot saw dust.
They look like oat meal minny oat meal muffins
All you guys up north send me some good trees.

I've used cotton (be sure they're not polyester) balls.
Mix with Vaseline. Half a cotton ball will burn hot for at
least five minutes. I store them in a 35mm film can. The
hard part today is finding the film can. Very portable,
and the small amount of Valseline that gets on your
hands will help prevent chapping in the winter. A 35mm
can should start fires for several weeks.

-Rick

when I need to light a fire in the rain, I look for a red jack pine branch about 3-4 ft long. then I hold the butt end in the air so the branch is vertical and I touch my lighter to the tip which is near the ground. even soking wet the needles flare, and very quickly the whole branch is engulfed.
Just before the flame reaches the butt of the branch where your hand is drop it on the ground and toss on a couple handfulls of tinder, never matter if there wet, and you have a blazing fire.

From the time I was a little boy, as I was the older brother, it was always my job to start the morning fire in the woodstove and fireplace. It was also I who had to split the kindling wood. A LOT of kindling wood back before the day of airtight stoves that kept a fire all night. I developed quite a nack for it and it became a point of pride for me to always be the one who could get a fire going. Three sheets of newspaper, eight chunks of kindling, two pieces of firewood, light it and then as the paper burned I would put one more sheet of paper in and almost shut the door. In the fireplace it took more paper because there was no blast of air coming in through the almost shut door.

As I got older I discovered that if I took my chainsaw and rip sawed and stump that had a lot of pitch in it, the fire went up without newspaper. As a Boy Scout, and later an adult Scout I developed a liking for the study and practice of survival techniques. Things like starting fires without matches and making sure that every car has the basics like blankets, survival gun, firestarters (made from wax and egg cartons), etc.

Back to the newspaper and kindling... For 45 of my 55 years I have lived with wood as my primary heat source. Who woulda thunk that reading this log house building forum would change the way I build a fire in a woodstove? A month ago, after reading this thread, I happened on a yardsale candle for a quarter (a real beauty, about the size of a coffee can). I melted it and played with sawdust cookies and egg carton firestarters. I made enough to keep us warm for 1-1/2 winters. I had NEVER built a fire inside with a survival firestarter and am amazed. With two chunks of dry Pine or Fir firewood it takes one or two pieces of kindling to guarantee a fire. No more begging for newspaper from our friends. No more running out of dry kindling in the middle of winter. No more nursing it along, just light it and walk away.

My wife was as skeptical as I until the first time she tried it. She then came up with a HUGE glass vase/fishbowl that holds about 50 of them and calls the firestarters "decor".

So, does anyone out there wanna give me a solution to my addiction toilet paper?

Photo below is model of log outhouse/chapel/guest room that I built after taking Skips class. Wife and I were married on the porch 20 years ago. A buddy built the model (exact replica) as the topper to the wedding cake.

Devil, maybe... Little?... The shirt is a size 4X.

I recently saw this and thought it was pretty neat.
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=64338&cat=1,41182
But they won't get me to part with fifty bucks.

Oh, and on Survivorman, Les said Fritos corn chips work very well.