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Kegan:
--- Quote from: Jbell on August 14, 2007, 01:01:24 am ---I am really itchin to try that. So dang cool or should I say hot. For a beginer which is easier bow or hand drill? What are some good substitutes for a spindle? Will erc work for a hearthboard, sapwood or heartwood? Hope you don't mind all the questions. Thanks.
Btw I love the fur coat! Got one just like it! Keep me Cro-Magnon warm at night! Me also want make fire keep woman warm at night! ;) :D
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I think bow drill's easier for the beginner (at least was for me) cause you don't have to be picky or very strong ;). Aspen, ash (sapwood), cottonwood, poplar, birch, maple, yucca, and I'm sure I missed quite a few. Just stay calm and the coal will come easily :).
jamie:
get apiece of red oak board and a cedar arrow or better yet an ash arrow and do the hand drill for a week. then get a poplar or cedar board with horseweed or mullien. itll smoke right up and you'll of conditioned your muscles. same goes for the bow drill. peace
Kegan:
Well, I finally got a coal with the hand drill this morning. Being inspired by Hillbilly and jamie, I'd been practicing for a week or two now, reading whatever I could. Finally using a handicap did it (a thumbs-loop string of rawhide over the top to keep pressure while simply spinning). GOt a nice big coal in around 45 seconds or so (my muscles still can't go too long :)). It was a aspen fireboard, golden rod drill (ran outta seasoned mullien and gae a broken arrow a try), and deer rawhide string. Now I gotta practice even more ;D!
jamie:
congrats. try what i said. it'll develop the muscles and calluses. peace
Hillbilly:
Congratulations, it's pretty amazing to see it work, ain't it? It's also amazing how tired your arms and chest muscles get spinning up a coal. Saving your energy until you really need it is the key. It helps if you get your spindle mated with the hearth, cut your notch, and give it a break for a minute or two. Then take it kind of easy and save your energy until you get smoke. When you start getting thick smoke, lay hell on it with all you've got. I like to make a couple passes even after I see smoke coming from the dust pile, just for insurance and to make a fatter coal.
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