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Box Elder bow drill spindle
Outbackbob48:
M2A, I have never tried box elder but it is on my list, I have used ERC spindles and they always seemed kinda hard as in density, got a coal with it but have other favorites. Some of my easy stuff on a whitepine hearth board is Mullien,Yucca and sometimes I can find a horseweed large enough for the bowdrill ;D I always here about guys using yellow popular and how good it works, my own results with it are it is better than nothing but I don't particularly like it. I have used a lot of charred punkwood for the flint and steel and like it as well as char cloth. The handrill is my favorite when conditions are right. :-T Bob
M2A:
Thanks for the information fellas. I have some dried elderberry and 1 or 2 spindles of horseweed stashed away I'll have to try. Doubt I'll be finding yucca any time soon, but will have an eye out for some. Also just got some cattail to dry for later on. Will try and stock up on some stuff this fall as I see it. Already gave yellow poplar many tries and don't care to do so again any time soon lol. Hope to work more on this over the winter.
You will have to try that mag bar Hawkdancer. They sure do throw the sparks. I was demonstrating at one point with some local chert and a file and was happy to light some charcloth with it 1 time and think that was more luck than anything. Had better spark with Georgetown chert but was trying to do some work with the local stuff I found.
Just going to have some fun with this stuff as time allows, hope to improve at it.
Mike
Hawkdancer:
It is on the list! Got to work the fire drill as well, but need to make a hearth board. The "do list" keeps getting in the way!
Hawkdancer
GlisGlis:
your board catched my attention
your hole are pretty close to the edge of the board and you dont make any notch
dont you have your spindle slip off the open side?
Pat B:
What about pawpaw for board or spindle?
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