How to: Bow Drill Fire / Primitive Friction Ember Making / Step By Step Instructions.
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How to: Bow Drill Fire / Primitive Friction Ember Making / Step By Step Instructions.
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Learning to make fire using primitive methods is fun if you know the basics. I was taught by two friends who worked in and continue to work in wilderness therapy, teaching kids primitive survival skills who had to gain fire making success to eat warm food on a daily basis for months at a time.
These are all sage.
You want to cut them a little bit long so they last longer.
Give yourself a little bit of gearing advantage by having a slightly larger diameter spindle.
That will keep it moving even if it starts to get sticky and wants to jam up.
I like a nice stiff bow that has most of its arch right at the handle.
The reason I like a lot of arch right here is because you want to be able to reach out
and tighten your line.
A very, very good choice.
Hard, round, I think it's 3mm, and very little stretch.
In this style, you actually develop the coal in the previous hole.
My spindle kept popping out.
It actually just locks in there.
This is a great way to go when you're learning.
What I'm using is juniper bark.
Whatever the material you find, you just need to make sure that when you grind it up, it
will grind all the way to dust.
Now you need something to catch the dust.
Wrap some longer material kind of around itself.
Hold the structure of your nest.
Then you start making the dust.
If it's too windy, you're going to need to get behind something so that this doesn't
all blow away.
You have your coarse material, your fine material, and your dust.
There we have plenty of fine material.
Then put that into your structure.
Push it all together.
Set your nest on top.
Then when you turn it over, push it together and create a little bit of a pocket.
That notch is quite a bit bigger.
You come up from the bottom on the inside, around the outside.
That puts your spindle on the outside, and then you're ready to go to work.
I've got my bearing block here.
Nice straight strokes, and as much pressure as you can handle.
Okay, I'm starting to see some smoke.
I'm going to push a little harder, go a little faster.
Okay, we definitely have a coal.
No big rush, but this coal could really burn a long time.
You could almost start this hearth board on fire with that.
Okay, just trying to line it up and drop it in there.
Then just be very gentle to not blow your coal away.
You can kind of squeeze the material around it until you have fire.
Once you have success, you'll want to do it again, and again, and again, because it is
a lot of fun.
Thank you everybody for watching.
I hope this helps.