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Resin-Soaked Bushcraft Igniters | 100g Bag

Resin-Soaked Bushcraft Igniters | 100g Bag

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Resin Firestarter

Resin-soaked bark built for reliable fire starting.

Made from spruce and pine bark naturally saturated with resin, saved from our own resin-processing work and repurposed into a practical firestarter for camp, bushcraft and cold-weather use.

01 Real Spruce & Pine Resin
02 Long Burning
03 Small Batch
04 Upcycled Material
What You Get
100g of resin-soaked spruce & pine bark  Packed in a tough bag and ready to add to your camp, emergency or bushcraft kit.
Why It Works

Resin burns hot.

Spruce and pine resin naturally ignites readily and burns with sustained heat. The bark acts as a carrier, helping the resin burn long enough to catch kindling and small wood.

Fast ignition
Hot, steady burn
Useful with damp kindling
No added accelerants
Built For

Keep a bag where you keep your outdoor gear.

Camping
Bushcraft kits
Hunting trips
Winter fire pits
Wet-weather fires
Emergency kits
Outdoor skills practice
Backcountry cooking fires
Why We Make Them

The bark was too useful to throw away.

Filtering resin for our gum, soaps and balms leaves us with bark naturally coated in spruce and pine resin.

For years, we kept that material for our own outdoor fires. Resin fire-starting was already part of our family's camping, hiking and winter cookout routines long before Alberta Wildcraft existed.

Saving the bark simply made sense. Instead of discarding a useful byproduct, we dry it and turn it into the same practical firestarter we've used ourselves for years.

In 2025, we finally began offering them through Alberta Wildcraft.

Less Waste. More Use.

One harvest, another purpose.

These firestarters give resin-soaked bark from our processing work a second use instead of sending it straight to waste.

It's a simple idea: use more of the material we've already brought home from the forest.

Field Questions

Good to know.

Are chemicals or accelerants added?
No added chemical accelerants are used. The burn comes from the naturally resin-rich spruce and pine bark.
Will they work with damp wood?
Resin burns hot and can help establish a fire when kindling is damp. As with any fire-starting method, success still depends on having suitable tinder, airflow and progressively larger fuel ready.
Can I use these in winter?
Yes. We use resin firestarters for cold-weather and winter fires. Keep the bag dry and protected with the rest of your fire kit.
Where does the bark come from?
It comes from the raw spruce and pine resin we personally harvest and process for Alberta Wildcraft products. Bark and resin naturally arrive together, and this allows us to make use of material left after resin processing.
Alberta Wildcraft Backcountry

Simple materials. Practical purpose.

Made from a useful byproduct of our own resin work and prepared here in Alberta for camp, trail and backcountry fire kits.

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