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Bushcraft - The Bow Drill Bible.

Bushcraft - The Bow Drill Bible.

Paperback

Hiking & Climbing

ISBN10: 1980339236
ISBN13: 9781980339236
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 16 2018
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Getting smoke but no ember? Learn how to build, use and troubleshoot a bow drill.

This illustrated field guide follows the full friction-fire process: selecting materials, making your set, producing an ember and turning it into a flame.

  • Choose wood and make the hearth board, spindle, bearing block, bow and ember pan.
  • Prepare tinder bundles and coal extenders, and build a fire lay.
  • Work through body position, bowing motion, bedding in the socket and cutting the V notch.
  • Troubleshoot slipping cord, squeaking, poor ember dust, burnished sockets and failed tinder bundles.
  • Develop your technique and explore adaptations for physical restrictions.

For newcomers learning friction fire and practitioners working through stubborn problems. Photographs and practical explanations support repeated practice in a suitable setting.

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