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Bow Drill Pictures &
Movies
Techniques, tips, photos, and general
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Photo and equipment by
Anthonio Akkermans
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Picture of fireboards (top), drills
(middle) and handholds (bottom) used in making fire with the bow
drill method. |
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Photo and equipment by
Allan "Bow" Beauchamp |
Hi,
Many people speak of fires with
a fire board! How about making your own twisted string and
doing it now! Can you? Lets see the pics people!
--Allan "Bow" Beauchamp
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| Here is a series of five
movies showing a bow drill being used to make fire
These are from the Wildwood
Trackers meeting in June 2002.
Rob Bicevskis is demonstrating the bow drill. |
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| 4. Transferring
the coal to the tinder bundle and starting to blow it into flame |
5. Blowing
the coal and tinder bundle into flame |
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Windows Media format (WMV)
320x240, 748 KB |
Windows Media format (WMV)
320x240, 927 KB |
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| Co-operative bow
drill
It can get pretty tiring cranking the bow drill by
yourself. Having a friend help to crank the bow while at the same
time providing additional downward pressure on the drill handhold
can be an enormous help. |
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Click on the small photo to watch
the
movie |
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Windows Media format (WMV)
320x240, 153 KB |
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