Friction Fire

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    Bow drill cedar on cedar. Its been a long time.
     
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    Man y’all make me envious, I’m not sure in this humid environment I could do that with a dowel rod chucked into a 20v Dewalt drill lol.
     
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    Bahahahaha!!!
     
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    Hadn’t done bow drill in a reeeeaaaallly long time (hand drill is generally my friction fire method of choice). Hands were a bit shot today....so gave the ol bow a go. CB4C82D3-63CF-459B-9F8F-202982442ED0.jpeg B5820735-1B70-4276-BE41-58A491E8BCC6.jpeg
     
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    Friction fire with the Pinhoti 433AC6B6-9D95-45DD-87BF-E6520B56B207.jpeg A96E4AF9-C9C7-4D34-9924-7349FCEDB903.jpeg
     
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    Tired and sore today, but wrapped it up with fire anyway. Keep spinning. 4A0FA654-A300-4757-8829-53F7493B0B86.jpeg AA8040D6-B955-440B-8E0B-7794A4A58DE5.jpeg
     
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    Hand drill again today 53624E82-7FB7-4565-B24B-5733700EC268.jpeg 52311758-693B-406E-B4FD-8AA087F42699.jpeg 4CC93093-8A93-44B0-9C91-4ECA9DA34860.jpeg
     
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    Double post. Sorry.
     
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    Double friction fire. One hand drill one bow drill. 2EE33CB1-E045-4319-8D35-8258EAFFE0C2.jpeg B2926463-6BF0-43AE-AADA-CE91B244E54D.jpeg
     
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    Bow drill today. Someone on Insta asked me to blow an ember to flame so I accommodated. 3E8A9EA1-C491-487D-8AB8-A3397B62C54B.jpeg 96235BA2-A0CD-4FFB-9682-DEA963A1A519.jpeg B276FAB9-8739-4701-80F4-7A8DA76BE6BE.jpeg CF121DFA-5E95-4C43-BA5B-F02F2FE3C16D.jpeg
     
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    Mad skills dril you have man.
    I especially envy your handdril fire skill.
     
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    Thanks man! Definitely a lot of hours paid to get there. Thankful that my friend Mike Lowe showed me how years ago. Hand drill has been a constant since then.
     
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    Great inspiration in these posts! Friction fire is something I have seriously struggled with over the years, so far only managed to find one wood that will reliably produce an ember. These pics have motivated me to try a few more combos!
     
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    Right on! Definitely post up your progress. Always interested in the journey.
     
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    Hand drill. Just more practice. 650EC7A3-B87E-4DA3-A367-DFE649ABE792.jpeg 90FBF686-373E-421A-843C-6D40C21D44CF.jpeg
     
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    I found a video of someone using elderberry to start a bow drill fire so I brought some home. I have used elderberry for a few things but never thought about trying friction fire with it because of its pithy core. Trouble is everything is sopping wet so I have to try and find what is dead, rotten or green and then dry it all out to give it a go.

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    Nice! Always cool finding a new material for friction fire!
     
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    Going to try to blow more embers to flame this year. So here we go. 54396E72-5198-4E3E-9ACA-64800A136B25.jpeg 0DA38324-25F6-4A75-B3E8-F5C5B95E5D0F.jpeg 9BD163E8-54AA-429F-90DC-B7A61994C566.jpeg 24C8A4EA-2C62-42D1-996E-86ED17864DC2.jpeg 9557BDC5-E6D2-4996-B54B-F8973CE368BD.jpeg
     
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