Whilst taking a walk along the beach with our granddaughter and Willow during the week I found a perfect pebble for bow drilling. We also collected a couple of limpet shells. So in this video I do some bow drilling using both the pebble and the shells as alternative bearing blocks.
You might also want to look at these videos on bow drilling:
- Component parts of a bow drill set
- How to make a bow drill set
- Posture & technique for bow drilling
- Fault finding for bow drilling
We look at alternative bearing blocks on our IOL Bushcraft Competency Certificate course.
You can see photos from this course, as well as all of our others, on our Facebook page.
