So in order to make a hand drill fire you need two pieces, you need a hearth board and you need a spindle that spins inside of the hearth board. Both of these pieces need to be bone dry and made ...

The key to fire-by-friction methods like the bow drill and hand drill is to use soft, non-resinous wood. So a wood like pine, while being soft, is not going to work due to the sap, which causes ...