Bowdrill fire using my Turley Gasconade

So this is going to be the bow drill vid. These two pieces of wood were pieces off that original cottonwood stick. I split them by batoning with the knife. It had a natural check in it like this one already. And if I can, I like to use that to my advantage, whereas I'll put the knife blade right in the check and baton it that way. And it likes to just follow the grain. So I've got my baseboard. I've got my baseboard ready. so where I put my foot on it, like it's, you can see it's a little wobbly, but you want it to be steady when you put your foot on it so it's not bouncing all over. And I usually put my foot about that far from the edge so I have, sorry, about that, yeah, about that far from the edge right next to the hole I'm drilling so I have a lot of leverage on it. So as long as when you put pressure down there it's not going to move, that's good for me. So it's fine if it wobbles, but when I put my foot down it's fine. Now this is the other piece of the wood which I baton, and I'm going to make a spindle out of that. Now it's really wide so instead of carving it down I'm going to baton a little chunk off of it. I'm probably going to use the smaller piece, the quarter that I chopped off, because I don't really want a fat spindle with this wood. It's nice and hard and I like to have a smaller in diameter spindle for the harder wood. Something like willow or a softer cottonwood than this i'll use a big big fat round spindle but this is cottonwood seasoned pretty good so when i'm making a spindle i don't even necessarily really make it so that it's completely uh circular but see this i don't know if you can tell but it goes up at the end like it loops up and i don't want that so i'm probably going to make the tip here and just continue to use the rest of it so that it's somewhat straight so i'm going to do that by just a chokescope. Gouging into the wood there, I take it off. That's gone there. Now I can either use that for the top or the bottom, and since it's kind of blunt, I'm going to use it for the bottom, but I want to even out the rest of the spindle first. And like I said, I don't really necessarily need to make it round in shape, because in my experience anyways, the rope catches on the edges and provides for a better spin. Actually, the shape that this spindle is taking is thin to thick. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to make this the bottom and this the top. So for my top, I make it a long point so that there's minimum friction on the top and maximum friction on the bottom. Don't want it too square though. So that's pretty crude. It's an impromptu spindle that I'm not taking a lot of time on because I need to get going soon. So there's my spindle. That's where I'm going to leave it. Nice and pointy. I got a duller point at the bottom and a long point at the top. I'm going to figure out where I want to put it on the baseboard. Right there looks good. I'm going to make a little indent with the spindle. Then I'm going to drill a hole with the knife. Another good thing about this knife, it doesn't have a weak tip. So I'm not afraid of really making a good size hole. Now for the, put that aside, for the bearing block. you in the other video this is actually a piece of cottonwood bark and i'm going to actually i'm just going to leave it the way it is maybe clean up the bottom a little bit there's been like it's got it's been burned hollow so i can't use the middle part of it so maybe i will cut it uh put it on this side use my saw because it's easier how thick it is there and like like with the uh baseboard i'm just gonna put a hole or start a hole right about where my palm is on the other side so that the spindle will go, so I brought from home because I don't like making a bow, it's not very hard, but I'm just gonna set up the camera in a different spot, string up the spindle, got my base or my socket and I wouldn't want to do this right on the ground if there had been any kind of moisture in the past few days but it's been bone-dry here so I'm not too worried about it, but she's smoking quite a bit I'm gonna cut the notch I'll be right back, another the parts I don't like doing is cutting the notch Sometimes it's a pain in the butt. So I got another little wood chip under here to catch my ember. When it happens, wish me luck. Popped out on me. Scout come Chasing deers. Try this again. Yeah, this gets harder the more tired you get. I'm pretty sure I got it that time. So this is gonna have to be close. those non-rushing situations like Iz was talking about because I didn't prepare a tinder bundle. I don't know why, I think I was trying to hurry up too much but go see if I can wrap one up real quick before the ember goes out. Okay, so here's my flint and steel kit and luckily I have some jute twine in there which can be my tinder bundle and I have some chaga which I'm going to use to extend the life of the coal. So considering I've got an abundance of chaga I'm just gonna use this big piece. Let's see if I can do this quite some time. I'm just gonna leave that there Well, I make my make my tinder bundle So there's my impromptu tinder bundle made of jute twine and monster coal on the chaga Sorry, this video ran so long guys. I wanted to get a bunch of stuff into it but yeah, like I was saying the gas grenade knife a plus if you're in the market for one contact is he is a He's a master knife maker and a great guy to deal with. I couldn't say one bad thing about the knife or the person. Thanks for watching guys. Take care.