Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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There are a lot of reasons why I like to start out with two divots and notches cut into a hearth for both bow drill and hand drill, and this is a good example of one of them.

This was some hand drill practice next to a pretty little creek with a trusty pre-dried thimbleberry spindle on western red cedar with cedar curls for the bundle.