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Wilderness Survival

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Fireboards
by Allan "Bow" Beauchamp
 

Photos and equipment by Allan "Bow" Beauchamp		 Bone fireboards

There will be more info about these in Bow's up-and-coming new book!
 
 

Two-stick fireboard method

I often told people about my two stick method. Many do it now, but back then, this is how it came to be.
I didn't like the wet ground ruining my fireboards, so I figured out the two stick fireboard and did experiments with it. It makes really good options for me, as I always say. This pic is from my experiments.
 


Photos and equipment by Allan "Bow" Beauchamp
  


Photos and equipment by Allan "Bow" Beauchamp

Here is a close-up view of the two-stick fireboard
 
 

Natural Crack method
  


Photo & equipment by Allan "Bow" Beauchamp 

Here is the same principle, except utilizing a crack in the natural fireboard.

You may have to widen the crack beside the place where the spindle is rotating, so as to provide a place for the hot dust to collect and form a coal. In this photo, the dust can collect in the hole beside the spindle.

 
  

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