Fire by Friction Video
Video Tutorial:
Making a Friction Fire
Using the Hand Drill Method
with Tamara Wilder
More Resources for Learning How to Make & Use Fire
Hand Drill Friction Fire-Making Kit
Mule Fat (Baccharis viminea) or Mare’s Trail (Conyza) drill
on
Box Elder (Acer negundo) or Incense Cedar hearth
Not all woods, or even sometimes individual pieces within a species, will work in friction fire-making kits. These kits, made from excellent friction fire materials, are individually tested so that you can be sure whether or not you need a better kit, or if just need to work on technique. We have taught this method to hundreds of people for almost 20 years and use these same woods and educational materials in our classes.
Hand Drill Friction Firemaking How-to Handout included
(contains tips on efficiency, how to get started, basic friction firemaking concepts, lists of good fire-making woods and tinders and how to make a kit.)
Hand Drill Friction Firemaking How-to Handout
(contains tips on efficiency, how to get started,
basic friction firemaking concepts, lists of good fire-making woods and tinders, and how to make a kit.)
A Book of Earth Skills
from the Society of Primitive Technology
edited by David Wescott
Best of the first ten Bulletins of Primitive Technology arranged by topic to form a comprehensive overview of ancient living skills.
Since those issues are no longer in print, this book is the best way to get the information found there.
Includes:
Making a Reduced Antler Flaker
by Steven EdholmCordage
by Steven Edholm & Tamara WIlderRemoving the Hooves of Deer
by Tamara Wilder
248 pages
8.5" x 11" x .5”
list price $25.99
(Gibbs Smith Publishing)
Ancestral Skills
from the Society of Primitive Technology
edited by David Wescott
More of the best of the first ten issues of the Bulletin of Primitive Technology arranged by topic.
Important info.
Includes:
Working Hides with Stone, Bone & Antler Tools
by Steven EdholmBuckskin Babblings
edited by Alice TullochHand Drill Firemaking
by Steven Edholm
