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Hand Drill

  
  
General pictures and movies
Techniques, tips, photos, and general information; various pictures & movies of bow-drills being made and used

A Friction Fire Inquiry: Hand Drill (now only on the Stone Age Skills website)
by Storm

A graph of the data from Storm's article  (A Friction Fire Inquiry: Hand Drill)
Rodney East

Hand Drills
made by Allan "Bow" Beauchamp

Bow's Handdrill Extender: The Milkweeds
by Allan "Bow" Beauchamp

Floating Hand Drill Technique
Explained in detail with diagrams - by Walter Muma (& Rob Bicevskis)

Floating Hand Drill Movies
To better illustrate how this is done

Construction and Efficacy of a Quartz Crystal-Tipped Hand Drill
by Storm