Making a Bow Drill Fire- Part 3

The last in this series on making a bow drill fire

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Rock
• Farm
• Knives
• Survival
• Camping
• bow
• drill

[Tossdart]

Well done you got fire. To me the size of your bow is overkill & the bump is robbing energy from you. The other thing is the loose leaf near cost you your coal. I prefer a piece of wood just wide enough to catch it especially if a bit punky. Remember if it is cold (it always seems to be here) seconds count. If you can't touch index to thumb your in big trouble. Tossdart

[laneakjt]

Isn't it amazing how many ways there are to do the same thing? The best video I have ever seen on this is the Woods Master Vol#2 "spark based fire making" by Ron Hood....absolutely fantastic! Also check out anything by Alan Halcon, he can get a coal in 6.5 seconds!

[laneakjt]

Thanks folks, I am glad you enjoyed them!

[frwakshow]

what kind of knives did you use

[laneakjt]

This one is a Pocket Chopper, that I forged from 1070 steel and Osage Orange scales.

[tomspeed2005]

This is love :)

[DreePatee]

what kind of woods did u use?

[BushcraftOnFire]

Nice job Jim!!!!

Not sure how I missed this one.. but you did a terrific job demonstrating. Hope all is well there Bro.. Blessings

[Tossdart]

If you go to my site & look at playlists camping, look for bow & drill one. I have a video I made especially for persons that wrote me on how I am a puter geek & never saw a bow drill.

[jefallijay]

thanks for the vid, very informative, i plan to try this sometime, thanks again.

[jefallijay]

u need to make a video of how much better and faster you can do it.

[donutbear]

that is an awesome knife i just thought it was like a regular knife until i saw that it was also a chisels that's pretty cool

[jewelfewel]

thanks this was great!