(2 September 2013, 13:25)BeardyMan Wrote: Hand drill.
Need to source the correct type of woods and make sure they're nice and dry first. That'll probably take a month!
Good challenge this one buddy, primitive.
Hand drills & bow drills take years to master, I don't imagine I'll do too well at this but we'll see.
Not at all BM using a bow drill is the easiest method to make primitive fire, the drill should be of the same wood as the board, your bearing block can be made from a small palm sized rock if need be, a little tip is to lubricate the drill end that goes into the rock etc with oil/fat it helps to keep the friction down as this end will get hot. The cut out notch where the hot embers build up is the trickiest part but no problem really. you do realise that once you all start doing this you'll have an urge to make flint tools and then all will be lost as you slowly regress into cro magnons
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