what is fatwood
Fatwood is scar tissue of a damaged or injured pine tree. A lightning strike will scar a tree sometimes top to bottom without necessarily killing the tree. The result scar of burnt bark will scar over with resin.Once hardened, the wood and bark around the area becomes rich with the flammable hardened resin.n Louisiana fatwood is known as rich lighter and cut slivers are what is referred to as kindling because of the abundance. The pitch-soaked wood produces an oily, sooty smoke, and it is recommended that one should not cook on a fire until all the fatwood has completely burned out.