Making a Bow Drill Fireboard

Video Transcript

"OK, the next step is the fire board. You can see the length of this fire board, I have a few holes already burned. OK? See the thickness. "It", similar to the cut in the hand held, but a little bit longer, and not as thick. Cut it off the sycamore. And, the first step is, you want to burn, OK? You want to burn the notch. OK, here's my fire board, similar to the hand held, not as thick, and this is a longer, and not as thick. You can see. You can make it as long as you want, but it has to be comfortable for your foot. Now, what you want to do with the fire board is to take the spindle, the one that I just cut. It needs to be burned, into the fire board. You need to create a little notch, OK, with your knife. A very simple way to create a notch, and it needs to be burned in. Very important to be burned in, and once it's burned in, where this becomes, where this becomes rounded, you stop. OK? Once this becomes rounded, like this, you stop. Because the next step which I'm going to show you in a minute, is cutting the notch."