Bow Drill Firelighting - Complete Beginners Guide (Craig Fordham)

I visited Craig Fordham who’s been teaching outdoors skills for almost 30 years, at his woodland in the South East of England to film this part one of a two-part series on friction fire lighting

This video is part one which is a complete beginner guide to Bow Drill in which we cover every single aspect from collecting the materials, the best woods to use, how to make the actual set and finally a complete walk-through on how to make an ember using the Bow Drill you have made from scratch

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Below is a timestamp of every single section in this video

(Click on the time on the left hand side to automatically be taken to that section)

00:00:00 - Beginning
00:00:19 - Introduction
00:04:35 - What is a bow drill
00:06:52 - Bow (types & varieties)
00:12:54 - Cordage (types & varieties)
00:16:00 - Bow (harvesting the wood)
00:18:25 - Bow (making the bow)
00:28:50 - Bearing block (types & varieties)
00:35:08 - Bearing block (harvesting the wood)
00:36:15 - Bearing block (making the bearing block)
00:45:10 - Hearth (types & varieties)
00:51:02 - Hearth (harvesting the wood)
00:53:59 - Hearth (making the hearth)
01:00:06 - Spindle (types & varieties)
01:07:08 - Spindle (harvesting the wood)
01:11:20 - Spindle (making the spindle)
01:19:30 - Bedding the bow drill set for the first time
01:31:19 - Carving a notch in the hearth board
01:37:47 - Producing your first bow drill ember
01:45:21 - Transferring the ember to a tinder bundle
01:47:05 - Troubleshooting (spindle keeps pinging out? - Part 1)
01:48:42 - Troubleshooting (getting lots of smoke but no ember?)
01:49:50 - Troubleshooting (transferred ember to tinder bundle but no flames)
01:50:26 - Troubleshooting (spindle keeps pinging out? - Part 2)
01:51:36 - Conclusion

As always I appreciate you watching

Take care

Peace

Zed