Starting a fire with a bow drill is probably the single most iconic skill within bushcraft. I haven’t practiced for a little while and so yesterday I decided to change that. And then I decided that I might as well make a video showing the process. So for the video I used a lime hearth […]
A month ago I posted a video in which I talked about the component parts of a bow drill set, including different approaches to bow drilling and a number of different materials that you could use for each of those component parts. I followed that one up with a video showing how to make a bow drill […]
A couple of weeks ago I posted a video in which I talked about the component parts of a bow drill set, including different approaches to bow drilling and a number of different materials that you could use for each of those component parts. I followed that one up with a video showing how to […]
Last week I posted a video in which I talked about the component parts of a bow drill set, including a number of different materials that you could use for each of those parts. In this video I show you how to make a bow drill set from materials that I found in the woods. […]
This post on alternative bow drilling methods was originally published in Issue 17 of The Bushcraft Journal in August 2017. In the last issue of The Bushcraft Journal I looked at bow drilling posture and technique. What I described works for most people most of the time, but there are situations where people aren’t able […]
